A
very
necessary
TREATISE
OF
THE
BOdyes
and
reliques
of
Sainctes
and
martyrs
.
SAinct
Augustine
in
the
booke
which
he
entituled
:
Of
the
labour
of
Monkes
,
complayning
of
certaine
trifle
bearers
,
who
already
in
hys
time
did
exercise
a
most
vilainous
&
filthy
kynd
of
cariyng
hyther
,
and
thether
reliques
of
martyrs
,
addeth
,
yea
yf
they
be
reliques
of
marters
.
By
the
which
word
he
signifieth
:
that
euen
then
the
abuse
and
deceyt
herein
was
committed
in
making
the
poore
simple
people
to
beleue
that
bones
gathered
here
&
there
,
were
the
bones
of
saynctes
.
But
seing
the
originall
of
this
abuse
is
of
such
antiquitie
,
it
is
not
to
be
doubted
,
but
that
it
hath
ben
in
the
meane
while
by
so
long
continuaunce
of
time
greatly
multiplied
:
especially
seyng
the
worlde
since
that
tyme
,
is
merueylouslye
corrupted
,
and
hath
declined
from
worse
to
worse
,
euen
vntill
it
be
come
to
the
extremitie
in
the
which
we
see
it
.
Nowe
the
first
vice
,
as
it
were
the
roote
of
this
euill
,
hath
bene
this
,
that
in
stede
of
seking
Christ
in
his
worde
&
in
his
sacraments
,
and
his
spirituall
graces
,
the
world
accordyng
to
the
olde
wont
therof
hath
bene
occupied
in
the
renewing
of
his
garmentes
,
shyrtes
and
other
lyke
cloutes
:
and
in
so
doing
hath
left
the
principall
to
folowe
the
accessary
.
In
like
maner
hath
it
done
concernyng
the
apostles
,
martyrs
,
and
other
sainctes
.
For
in
steade
of
imitating
their
liues
,
to
folowe
their
examples
it
hath
ben
geuen
wholly
to
contemplate
and
reserue
as
a
treasure
,
their
bones
,
shyrtes
,
girdles
,
cappes
and
other
lyke
baggage
and
trifles
.
I
knowe
righte
well
that
thys
hath
a
certaine
kinde
and
colour
of
good
deuotion
and
zeale
,
whylest
some
alledge
that
they
kepe
the
reliques
of
Iesus
Christ
for
the
honor
they
beare
to
him
,
&
for
the
intent
to
haue
a
better
memorie
of
him
:
&
so
likewise
of
the
saincts
:
but
we
must
consider
that
which
sainct
Paule
sayeth
,
that
all
seruyce
of
God
inuented
by
mans
braine
,
what
shew
so
euer
it
hath
of
wisdome
is
not
withstanding
but
vanitie
and
folishnes
:
yf
it
haue
not
a
better
and
more
sure
grounde
,
then
our
seming
or
iudgement
.
Moreouer
it
behoued
to
waigh
the
profyte
that
myghte
comme
thereof
with
the
danger
:
and
in
so
doing
it
woulde
haue
bene
founde
to
haue
bene
very
litle
profitable
or
altogether
superfluous
&
vaine
to
haue
the
reliques
in
such
sorte
:
and
contrariwise
it
is
verye
harde
or
altogether
impossible
that
therby
men
shoulde
not
decline
by
lytle
and
litle
to
ydolatry
.
For
man
can
not
kepe
himself
in
the
beholdyng
and
handling
of
them
,
but
he
will
also
honor
them
:
and
in
honoring
them
,
there
is
no
measure
but
incontinent
life
that
is
attributed
vnto
them
the
which
apperteyneth
onely
to
Iesus
Christ
.
So
then
to
speake
briefly
as
the
thing
is
,
the
desire
to
haue
reliques
is
almost
neuer
without
suspition
,
and
that
worse
is
,
it
is
the
mother
of
ydolatry
,
which
is
ordinarely
connexed
and
ioyned
therwith
.
Euery
man
doeth
confesse
that
the
cause
that
moued
oure
Lord
to
hyde
the
body
of
Moyses
,
was
for
feare
least
the
people
of
Israell
,
shoulde
abuse
it
in
worshippyng
of
it
.
Now
it
behoueth
to
vnderstande
that
,
that
which
hath
bene
done
in
one
sainct
is
done
in
al
the
rest
,
seyng
that
there
is
one selfe
same
reason
touching
all
:
although
we
leaue
to
speake
of
the
saynctes
here
,
yet
let
vs
marke
what
sainct
Paule
sayeth
euen
of
Iesus
Christ
himselfe
,
for
he
protesteth
not
to
know
him
any
more
according
to
the
fleshe
,
after
his
resurrection
:
admonishyng
by
these
wordes
that
all
that
is
carnall
in
Iesus
Christ
oughte
to
be
forgotten
and
set
aside
to
the
ende
to
applye
and
set
our
affection
to
seke
and
possesse
him
according
to
the
spirite
.
Now
then
to
pretende
that
it
is
a
goodly
thyng
to
haue
some
memoriall
as
well
of
hym
as
of
the
sainctes
,
for
to
styrre
vp
to
deuotion
.
What
is
this
els
,
but
a
false
cloke
to
paint
out
our
folishe
and
vayne
desier
,
whiche
is
grounded
on
no
reason
?
And
when
this
reason
shoulde
seme
to
be
sufficient
,
yet
for
so
much
as
it
dothe
manifestlye
repugne
to
that
which
the
holye
gost
hath
pronunced
by
the
mouth
of
sainct
Paul
,
what
wold
we
haue
more
?
Although
it
be
not
now
nedefull
to
dispute
longe
vpon
this
poynct
:
to
wit
,
whether
it
be
good
or
euill
to
haue
reliques
for
to
kepe
them
only
as
precious
thynges
wythout
worshippynge
them
.
For
euen
as
we
haue
sayde
experience
sheweth
that
the
one
is
almost
neuer
with
out
the
other
.
In
the
oration
of
the
death
of
Theodosius
.
It
is
very
trew
that
sainct
Ambrose
speaking
of
Helene
mother
to
the
Emperour
Constantine
,
who
with
great
payne
and
great
expences
soughte
the
crosse
of
our
Lorde
:
sayeth
that
she
worshipped
only
the
lord
that
had
hanged
thereon
and
not
the
wodde
.
But
it
is
a
very
rare
thing
to
haue
the
hart
addicted
to
any
kinde
of
reliques
whatsoeuer
they
be
,
&
that
one
do
not
by
&
by
defile
&
polute
himselfe
wyth
some
kynde
of
superstition
.
I
grant
that
men
do
not
com
incontinently
or
at
the
first
to
manifest
Idolatrie
:
but
by
litle
and
litle
thei
com
from
one
absuse
to
another
,
euen
vntyll
they
fall
to
the
extremitie
.
So
much
there
is
that
the
people
that
name
themselues
Christians
,
are
come
euen
to
this
poynte
that
they
haue
in
this
case
committed
as
great
ydolatrye
as
euer
did
the
heathen
.
For
they
haue
bowed
them selues
and
kneled
before
the
reliques
,
euen
as
before
god
.
They
haue
lyghted
candles
and
torches
in
sygne
of
homage
and
honour
.
They
haue
put
their
trust
in
them
:
they
haue
had
theyr
refuge
to
them
,
as
though
the
vertue
and
grace
of
God
had
bene
enclosed
in
them
.
If
ydolatry
consist
in
transferryng
the
honor
of
God
to
others
,
shall
we
denye
this
to
be
ydolatry
?
Neither
must
we
excuse
the
matter
in
sayinge
,
that
it
hath
ben
a
disordinat
zeale
of
certaine
rude
and
folishe
people
or
of
simple
women
:
For
it
hath
bene
a
general
disorder
,
approued
of
them
which
had
the
guydynge
and
gouernement
of
the
churche
.
And
likewise
thei
haue
placed
the
bones
of
the
dead
,
and
all
other
reliques
vpon
the
high
aulter
,
and
on
highest
and
most
euident
places
,
to
the
end
to
make
them
with
more
authoritie
honoured
.
Beholde
then
howe
the
beginning
of
this
folishe
curiositie
that
men
haue
had
in
tymes
paste
,
to
make
a
treasure
of
Reliques
,
is
come
euen
to
thys
most
manifest
abhomination
,
that
not
only
men
haue
turned
them selues
altogether
from
god
,
for
to
occupy
their
minds
on
vayne
and
corruptible
things
,
but
also
by
a
most
execrable
sacriledge
,
haue
worshipped
dead
and
insensible
creatures
in
steade
of
the
onely
liuyng
God
.
Now
as
one
euil
is
neuer
alone
,
but
that
it
draweth
another
with
it
:
this
mischeuous
wickednesse
is
crept
in
since
that
men
haue
receyued
for
reliques
aswell
of
Iesus
Christ
as
of
the
sainctes
,
I
cannot
tell
what
fylthinesse
and
baggage
wherein
is
neither
rime
nor
reason
.
And
the
worlde
hath
bene
so
blinded
,
that
what
title
so
euer
were
geuen
to
euerye
trifle
that
was
presented
vnto
it
,
the
same
was
forthwith
receyued
withoute
all
iudgement
or
further
inquisition
.
So
that
what
bones
so
euer
of
Asses
or
Dogges
,
that
the
firste
mocker
or
deceyuer
woulde
haue
had
preferred
for
bones
of
martirs
men
haue
made
no
difficultie
to
receyue
them
verye
deuoutlye
.
As
much
hath
bene
of
all
the
rest
:
as
it
shal
be
hereafter
entreated
.
For
my
part
I
doubt
not
it
hath
bene
a
iust
punishment
of
god
.
For
seyng
the
worlde
hath
gone
a
maddyng
after
reliques
,
to
abuse
them
vnto
a
most
peruerse
kinde
of
superstition
:
it
stode
with
good
reason
that
god
shuld
permit
that
after
one
lye
another
should
folow
.
On
this
maner
was
he
wonte
to
aduenge
hym selfe
of
the
dishonoure
that
hath
bene
done
to
his
name
,
when
that
men
did
transfer
his
honour
to
others
.
Wherefore
in
that
there
are
so
many
false
and
counterfeyte
reliques
throughout
the
whole
world
this
procedeth
from
none
other
cause
,
but
that
god
hath
permitted
that
the
world
(
for
so
much
as
it
did
delight
in
deceyte
and
lying
)
shoulde
be
double
begyled
and
deceyued
.
It
had
bene
the
parte
or
dutye
of
christians
to
haue
left
the
bodies
of
saincts
in
their
graues
,
for
to
haue
obeyed
to
this
vniuersall
sentence
.
That
all
men
are
dust
,
and
to
dust
thei
shal
returne
.
And
not
for
to
lifte
them
vp
in
pompe
and
sumptuousnes
,
for
to
make
as
it
were
a
resurrection
before
the
time
.
This
was
not
ment
but
to
the
contrary
against
the
ordinance
of
god
,
they
haue
vnburied
the
bodies
of
the
faithfull
,
for
to
exalt
them
in
glory
,
whereas
they
oughte
to
haue
bene
in
their
graues
and
restyng
places
,
waityng
for
the
latter
day
.
Man
hath
desyred
to
haue
them
,
and
hath
put
his
truste
in
them
,
he
hath
honored
them
and
hath
made
all
signes
of
reuence
to
them
.
And
what
hath
folowed
?
The
Diuil
seyng
men
so
amased
,
was
not
content
to
haue
deceyued
the
worlde
in
one
sort
,
but
hath
set
forth
this
other
deceit
,
to
geue
titles
of
reliques
of
sainctes
to
that
which
was
altogether
prophane
.
And
god
by
hys
vengeance
hath
taken
awaye
vnderstanding
&
iudgement
from
the
vnbeleuers
:
in
such
sort
that
with
out
any
further
inquisition
,
they
haue
accepted
al
what
soeuer
hath
bene
presented
vnto
them
,
putting
no
difference
betwene
white
and
blacke
.
Now
for
this
present
I
minde
not
to
entreate
what
abhomination
it
is
to
abuse
the
reliques
aswell
of
our
Lorde
Iesus
as
of
the
sainctes
,
in
such
sorte
as
men
haue
hitherto
done
,
and
as
is
yet
done
in
the
most
part
of
christendome
,
for
it
woulde
require
a
whole
boke
to
deduce
this
matter
But
for
asmuch
as
it
is
a
thing
notorious
&
knowen
,
that
the
most
parte
of
the
reliques
that
are
shewed
throughout
al
places
ar
false
and
counterfaite
,
and
haue
bene
set
forth
and
preferred
by
deceyuers
,
who
impudently
haue
abused
the
world
:
I
haue
thought
good
to
speake
somwhat
therof
,
to
the
end
to
giue
occasion
to
euery
man
to
think
thereon
,
&
to
take
hede
therto
,
for
somtime
we
aproue
a
thing
rashly
,
For
so
muche
as
our
mindes
are
occupied
in
such
sort
that
we
take
not
leasure
to
examine
what
it
is
to
the
ende
to
giue
good
and
right
iudgement
:
&
so
we
fayle
for
lacke
of
takyng
heede
.
But
when
one
doeth
admonishe
vs
,
we
beginne
to
thinke
thereon
,
and
are
wonderous
much
amased
,
how
we
haue
bene
so
easye
and
lyght
to
beleue
that
which
was
in
nothyng
probable
.
Euen
so
hath
it
com
to
passe
in
thys
matter
,
herein
for
lack
of
aduertisement
euerye
one
beyng
preoccupied
with
that
which
he
heareth
sayde
:
beholde
the
body
of
such
a
sainct
,
beholde
his
showes
,
behold
hys
hose
,
suffereth
himself
to
be
persuaded
that
it
is
so
.
But
when
I
shal
haue
euendently
shewed
the
deceyte
that
is
committed
therein
,
who
so
euer
hath
any
sparke
of
wisdome
and
reason
wil
open
hys
eyes
,
and
giue
him selfe
to
consider
that
which
neuer
before
he
thought
vpon
.
Although
I
cannot
do
as
I
wold
in
this
litle
boke
.
For
it
should
be
nedful
to
haue
regesters
from
al
partes
,
for
to
knowe
what
reliques
are
sayde
to
be
in
all
places
,
to
the
ende
to
make
comparison
of
them
And
then
men
shoulde
know
that
euery
Apostle
shoulde
haue
more
then
foure
bodyes
,
&
euery
sainct
at
the
least
two
or
thre
and
so
many
should
be
of
all
the
rest
.
To
be
shorte
when
one
shoulde
haue
gathered
all
on
a
heape
,
there
is
no
man
that
woulde
not
be
astonished
,
seyng
a
mockery
so
folish
and
absurde
,
the
which
neuertheles
hath
had
power
to
blind
the
whole
earth
.
I
thought
that
for
as
much
as
ther
is
not
so
lytle
a
cathedrall
church
that
hath
not
as
it
wer
thousands
of
bones
and
other
such
litle
trifles
,
what
shuld
it
be
if
one
should
gather
together
the
whole
multitude
of
two
or
thre
thousande
bishoprickes
,
of
twentye
or
thyrtie
thousand
abbeys
,
of
more
then
fourtye
thousande
couentes
,
of
so
many
parishe
churchs
&
chappels
?
But
yet
the
chiefe
&
principal
shuld
be
to
viset
them
,
&
not
to
name
them
only
,
for
thei
ar
not
al
so
knowen
that
thei
can
be
named
.
In
this
town
thei
had
(
as
men
say
)
in
times
passed
,
an
arme
of
S.
Anthony
the
which
when
it
was
inclosed
in
a
glasse
they
kissed
and
worshipped
:
but
at
such
time
as
it
was
taken
out
&
shewed
forth
,
it
was
found
to
be
the
member
of
an
Hart
:
there
was
also
on
the
high
aulter
hangyng
the
braine
of
Sainct
Peter
as
longe
as
it
was
inclosed
men
did
not
doubte
therof
.
For
it
had
bene
blasphemie
not
to
beleue
the
superscription
.
But
when
as
the
neste
was
pulled
out
,
and
that
men
did
better
beholde
it
,
it
was
founde
to
be
a
marble
stone
,
I
could
recite
many
thinges
by
like
examples
,
but
these
shall
suffice
to
do
you
to
vnderstande
what
great
filthines
&
ordure
shoulde
be
disclosed
if
there
were
some
good
vniuersall
visitasitation
made
of
all
the
reliques
of
Europa
:
Yea
,
and
that
with
wisedome
and
prudence
to
knowe
how
to
discerne
them
.
For
many
beholdyng
a
relique
shut
their
eyes
through
superstition
to
the
ende
,
that
they
seing
shoulde
see
nothyng
at
all
:
that
is
to
say
that
they
dare
not
looke
in
good
earnest
to
consider
what
the
thing
is
.
Euen
as
many
that
bost
them selues
to
haue
sene
S.
Gloudes
bodye
whole
,
or
the
bodye
of
some
other
sainct
:
and
haue
neuer
had
this
boldnes
to
lifte
vp
theyr
eyes
to
beholde
what
the
thynge
was
.
But
he
that
should
haue
the
libertie
to
see
the
secreat
,
and
the
boldnesse
to
vse
it
,
shoulde
well
know
how
to
speake
otherwise
.
As
much
is
of
the
head
of
Mary
Magdeline
,
which
is
showed
nere
the
towne
of
Marseilles
wyth
the
morsel
of
past
,
or
ware
that
is
fastened
vpon
her
eye
.
Men
do
make
a
treasure
of
her
,
as
it
were
a
god
descended
from
heauen
:
but
if
a
trial
wer
made
of
things
men
might
clearely
finde
the
deceyt
and
craft
.
It
wer
then
a
thing
to
be
desired
,
to
haue
a
certentie
of
al
the
trifles
that
men
kepe
heare
,
and
there
for
reliques
:
or
at
the
least
to
haue
a
regester
of
them
to
shew
how
many
falshodes
there
are
?
But
seyng
this
is
not
possible
to
be
done
,
I
wishe
to
haue
onely
the
Inuentory
of
ten
or
twelue
townes
:
as
of
Paris
,
Thoulous
,
Raines
,
and
Poiters
:
yf
I
had
but
onely
these
,
(
yet
neuerthelesse
)
men
shoulde
see
a
meruelous
great
swarme
,
or
at
the
least
a
confused
heape
.
And
it
is
a
wishe
that
I
haue
many
times
desired
that
I
might
recouer
suche
an
Inuentory
:
neuertheles
for
so
much
as
that
would
also
be
hard
for
me
to
doe
,
I
thought
it
much
better
in
the
ende
to
giue
this
lytle
aduertysement
which
foloweth
:
To
the
ende
to
awake
them
that
slepe
,
and
to
make
them
thynke
what
may
be
sayd
of
the
whole
number
,
when
that
in
so
very
a
lytle
a
portion
,
there
is
founde
so
much
abuse
.
I
meane
,
when
there
shall
be
founde
so
much
vntrueth
in
those
Reliques
whiche
I
shall
name
,
the
which
is
almost
not
the
thousande
parte
of
that
which
is
shewed
and
sene
:
what
maye
one
thynke
of
the
residue
?
Moreouer
,
if
it
apear
that
those
which
were
counted
and
estemed
for
the
moste
certayne
haue
bene
fraudulently
inuented
and
counterfeyted
:
what
maye
men
thynke
of
those
that
are
more
doubtfull
?
And
woulde
to
god
that
Christen
Princes
would
somewhat
thinke
vpon
thys
.
For
it
were
their
office
and
dutye
not
to
suffer
theyr
pore
subiects
to
be
so
deceiued
,
not
onely
by
false
doctrine
,
but
visibly
in
makynge
them
beleue
(
as
the
Prouerbe
sayeth
)
that
Rammes
bladders
are
lanternes
:
for
they
shall
make
accounte
before
God
for
their
dissimulyng
,
yf
seing
and
beholdyng
the
same
they
kepe
silence
:
and
it
shall
be
dearely
solde
them
to
haue
permitted
men
to
mocke
God
,
where
as
they
myght
haue
remedied
the
same
.
How
soeuer
it
be
,
I
trust
that
this
lytle
treatise
shal
serue
al
,
geuing
euery
one
occasion
to
thinke
with
himselfe
that
which
the
tytle
importeth
:
that
is
,
yf
there
were
a
regester
made
of
all
the
reliques
of
the
worlde
,
that
men
should
clearly
see
how
they
haue
bene
deceyued
and
blynded
heretofore
,
and
what
darkennes
and
ignoraunce
hath
bene
throughoute
the
whole
earth
.
Let
vs
begynne
then
at
Iesus
Christe
,
of
whome
because
they
coulde
not
saye
that
they
had
the
naturall
body
(
for
concerning
hys
miraculous
body
they
haue
found
such
meanes
to
forge
it
,
and
that
in
such
number
and
at
all
times
,
as
often
as
semed
good
to
them
)
they
haue
gathered
in
stede
therof
thousands
of
other
trifles
,
to
supplye
this
want
.
Although
yet
not
withstanding
they
haue
not
to
let
the
bodye
of
Iesus
Christ
escape
without
retaynyng
some
lytle
gobbet
thereof
.
For
besides
the
teath
and
the
heare
,
the
Abbey
of
Charour
in
the
diosis
of
Poiters
,
vanteth
it selfe
to
haue
the
prepuce
,
that
is
to
saye
:
the
foreskyn
that
was
cut
from
him
in
the
circumcision
.
I
prai
you
from
whence
came
this
skinne
vnto
them
?
Sainct
Luke
the
Euangelist
reciteth
very
well
that
our
Lord
Iesus
was
circumcised
:
but
that
the
skinne
was
locked
vp
to
be
reserued
for
a
relique
he
maketh
no
mencion
at
all
:
All
the
auncient
histories
speake
neuer
a
worde
thereof
.
And
for
the
space
of
fiue
hundred
yeres
it
was
neuer
spoken
of
in
the
Christian
churche
.
Where
is
it
then
that
it
was
hidden
,
for
to
be
founde
agayne
so
sodenly
?
Moreouer
howe
coulde
it
flye
vnto
Charour
?
But
for
to
proue
it
to
be
that
thyng
,
they
say
that
certain
droppes
of
bloode
fell
from
it
.
This
is
their
saying
,
which
had
nede
of
probation
.
Wherefore
a
man
maye
well
see
,
that
it
is
but
a
plaine
mockery
or
delution
.
Yet
neuerthelesse
although
that
we
shoulde
graunte
them
that
the
skynne
that
was
cut
from
Iesus
Christ
was
kepte
and
that
it
might
be
either
there
,
or
els
where
.
What
should
we
sai
of
the
foreskinne
which
is
shewed
at
Rome
,
at
Sainct
Iohn
of
Latrans
?
It
is
most
certain
that
there
was
neuer
but
one
.
It
coulde
not
be
then
at
Rome
and
at
Charour
both
together
.
So
then
beholde
,
a
most
manifest
fashold
and
deceite
.
There
remanieth
afterwardes
the
blood
,
for
the
which
there
hath
bene
great
stryfe
and
much
dissention
:
For
many
haue
sayde
,
that
there
was
found
no
blood
of
Iesus
Christ
,
but
miraculous
bloode
,
yet
neuerthelesse
it
is
shewed
natural
in
more
then
an
hundred
places
.
In
one
place
certaine
droppes
,
as
at
Rochell
in
Poitou
the
whiche
Nicodemus
(
as
they
saye
)
dyd
gather
in
his
gloue
.
In
other
places
violes
full
,
as
at
Mantone
and
els
where
,
in
other
places
gobblets
ful
as
at
Rome
,
at
sainct
Eustace
.
Yea
men
haue
not
bene
content
to
haue
bloode
alone
,
but
they
must
haue
mingled
it
wyth
water
as
it
did
issue
out
of
his
side
when
he
was
pearced
on
the
crosse
.
This
merchandise
is
to
be
founde
in
the
church
of
S.
Iohn
of
Latran
at
Rome
.
I
leaue
the
iudgement
to
euery
man
what
certentie
may
be
had
hereof
.
And
namelye
whether
this
be
not
a
manyfest
lye
,
to
say
that
the
blood
of
Iesus
Christ
hath
bene
founde
seuen
or
eyghte
hundred
yeres
after
his
death
,
for
to
be
shewed
throughout
the
world
:
seing
that
in
the
auncient
churche
there
was
neuer
made
mencion
thereof
.
There
foloweth
after
,
that
which
did
touche
the
body
of
our
lorde
Iesus
:
or
rather
al
that
thei
could
gather
together
for
to
make
reliques
of
in
memorie
of
him
in
stede
of
hys
bodye
.
Fyrst
of
all
the
Maunger
,
in
the
which
he
was
put
at
the
tyme
of
his
birth
,
is
to
be
shewed
at
Rome
in
the
church
called
our
Ladye
the
greater
.
Also
in
S.
Paules
church
the
clothe
wherein
he
was
wrapped
:
although
that
there
be
some
lytle
part
of
it
at
S.
Sauiours
in
Spaine
.
Hys
Cradle
is
also
at
Rome
,
wyth
the
shyrte
that
hys
mother
Mary
the
Virgyn
made
hym
.
Item
in
s
.
Iames
church
at
Rome
they
doe
shewe
the
aulter
on
the
whiche
he
was
set
in
the
temple
,
in
the
time
of
his
presentacion
:
as
though
there
had
then
bene
dyuers
aulters
,
as
they
make
in
the
Papistrie
as
manye
as
they
wyll
.
So
herein
they
lie
without
colour
or
cloke
.
Beholde
what
thynges
they
haue
had
for
the
time
of
Christes
childhode
.
It
is
now
not
nede
full
to
dispute
muche
where
it
is
,
that
they
haue
founde
all
this
baggage
,
so
longe
a
tyme
synce
the
death
of
Iesus
Christ
.
For
there
is
none
of
so
litle
iudgement
that
doth
not
see
their
foly
.
Throughout
the
whole
historie
of
the
gospell
,
there
is
not
so
muche
as
one
worde
mencioned
of
these
thynges
.
In
the
tyme
of
the
Apostles
it
was
neuer
harde
once
spoken
of
.
Aboute
fyftye
yeares
after
the
death
of
Christ
Iesus
,
Ierusalem
was
beseiged
and
destroyed
.
Many
auncient
doctours
haue
written
sense
that
tyme
,
makyng
mencion
of
thinges
that
were
in
their
tyme
:
namelye
of
the
crosse
and
nayles
that
Helene
did
finde
.
But
of
al
these
smal
trifles
thei
speake
neuer
a
worde
.
Moreouer
in
the
time
of
Sainct
Gregory
,
it
is
out
of
all
dout
that
there
was
none
of
all
this
at
Rome
,
as
may
be
seene
by
his
writynges
.
After
whose
death
Rome
hath
bene
diuers
tymes
taken
,
pylled
,
and
almost
altogether
wasted
.
When
all
this
shal
be
considered
,
what
can
one
saye
els
,
but
that
all
this
geare
hath
bene
deuised
for
to
abuse
the
simple
people
.
And
in
verye
deede
the
maskers
as
well
Priestes
as
Monkes
,
do
well
confesse
that
it
is
so
,
in
callynge
them
Pias
fraudes
,
that
is
to
say
honest
deceytes
,
for
to
moue
the
people
to
deuotion
.
There
foloweth
reliques
which
appertain
to
the
time
that
is
since
the
childhode
of
Iesus
Christ
vntyll
his
death
.
Amonges
which
there
is
the
piller
whereon
he
dyd
leane
when
he
disputed
in
the
temple
,
with
eleuen
other
lyke
pyllers
of
Salomons
temple
,
I
aske
them
who
did
reuele
vnto
them
that
Iesus
did
leane
vpon
a
pyller
?
For
the
Euangelist
maketh
no
mencion
therof
,
in
rehearsing
the
historie
of
this
disputacion
.
And
it
is
not
lykely
to
be
trew
,
that
thei
gaue
him
place
as
vnto
a
preacher
seyng
that
he
was
not
in
estimacion
,
nor
in
authoritie
as
it
doth
apear
.
Moreouer
,
I
demaunde
although
that
he
had
leaned
vpon
a
piller
,
yet
howe
is
it
that
they
knowe
it
to
be
the
same
?
Thyrdlye
from
whence
that
they
haue
had
these
twelue
pyllers
whiche
they
saye
were
of
the
temple
of
Salomon
.
There
foloweth
after
the
cruses
wherein
the
water
was
that
Iesus
Christ
chaunged
into
wyne
at
the
bride
ale
in
Cana
of
Galilee
,
the
which
they
call
Hydries
.
I
woulde
gladly
knowe
who
was
the
keper
of
them
so
longe
a
time
,
for
to
distribute
theym
.
For
we
must
note
this
that
they
were
not
found
before
.viii.
C.
or
a
thousand
yeres
after
that
this
miracle
was
done
.
I
doe
not
knowe
all
places
where
they
are
shewed
.
I
knowe
well
that
ther
are
of
them
at
Pise
at
Rauene
,
at
Cluny
,
at
Angers
,
at
S.
Sauiours
in
Spaine
.
But
without
makyng
further
discourse
of
the
matter
,
it
is
very
easye
,
onely
by
the
eye
syght
,
to
conuince
them
of
a
lye
.
For
some
of
them
do
contain
no
more
but
fiue
quartes
of
wine
at
the
most
,
other
some
lesse
:
&
the
others
do
contain
wel
nigh
a
firken
.
Let
them
make
these
floutes
agre
,
if
thei
can
:
and
then
I
wyll
leaue
them
their
Hydries
without
makynge
any
controuersies
with
them
.
But
they
haue
not
bene
content
wyth
the
vessels
onely
except
they
had
ther
with
the
drinke
also
:
for
at
Orleance
they
saye
that
they
haue
the
wine
the
which
thei
name
Achitricline
.
For
because
the
Euangelist
sainct
Iohn
recityng
the
miracle
,
speaketh
of
the
Architricline
,
which
is
to
say
the
maister
of
the
house
.
It
hath
semed
to
them
that
it
was
the
proper
name
of
the
Bridegrome
:
and
they
entertayne
the
people
in
thys
beastlynesse
.
For
once
a
yere
they
make
them
that
wyll
brynge
them
their
offeringe
:
licke
the
ende
of
a
sponne
,
telling
them
that
they
geue
them
to
drink
of
the
wyne
that
our
lord
made
in
the
banquet
.
And
the
quantitie
neuer
diminisheth
(
prouided
alwaies
that
thei
fil
the
gobblet
)
.
I
can
not
tel
of
what
bignes
his
showes
are
,
which
are
said
to
be
at
Rome
in
the
place
named
Sancta
sanctorum
,
nor
whether
they
be
those
that
he
ware
in
his
childholde
,
or
in
his
manhode
.
And
when
all
is
sayd
a
like
worth
is
the
one
as
the
other
.
For
that
whiche
I
haue
already
sayde
,
doth
sufficiently
shew
what
impudencye
it
is
,
to
brynge
forth
nowe
the
Showes
of
Christ
whyche
the
Apostles
them selues
had
not
in
their
time
.
Let
vs
come
to
that
which
doth
appertayne
to
the
laste
Supper
whiche
Christe
Iesus
made
wyth
hys
Apostles
.
That
Table
is
at
Rome
at
Sainct
Iohn
of
Latran
.
There
is
of
the
breade
at
sainct
Sauiours
in
Spaine
.
The
knife
wherewith
the
pascal
lambe
was
cut
is
at
Trier
:
note
that
Christ
Iesus
was
in
a
borowed
place
when
he
made
his
supper
.
In
departing
from
thence
he
left
the
table
there
:
we
do
not
reade
that
it
was
euer
caried
a
way
by
the
apostles
.
Ierusalem
within
a
certeyn
space
after
was
destroied
:
as
we
haue
said
,
what
likenesse
is
there
that
this
table
should
haue
ben
founde
seuen
or
eyghte
hundred
yeres
after
?
Moreouer
the
forme
and
fashion
of
tables
wer
in
those
dayes
cleane
contrary
to
that
thei
are
nowe
,
for
they
dyd
lye
at
their
meales
,
and
not
sit
as
it
is
expreslye
sayde
in
the
Gospell
.
The
lye
then
is
to
much
manifest
.
And
what
lackes
there
more
?
The
cuppe
wherein
he
gaue
the
Sacrament
of
his
blood
to
his
Apostles
to
drinke
,
is
shewed
at
our
Ladye
of
the
Ile
neare
to
Lyons
,
and
in
Albegeios
in
a
certaine
couent
of
Augustines
.
Which
of
the
two
shall
one
beleue
?
And
yet
is
it
worse
of
the
platter
wherein
the
pascall
lambe
was
put
:
for
it
is
at
Rome
,
at
Genes
,
and
at
Earles
.
We
must
nedes
saye
that
the
custome
of
that
tyme
was
dyuers
from
ours
.
For
where
as
now
we
haue
diuers
messes
they
must
nedes
haue
had
for
one
messe
dyuers
platters
:
Yea
if
one
woulde
geue
credit
to
these
holy
reliques
,
wold
anye
man
haue
a
more
open
and
manifest
falshode
?
As
much
is
to
be
sayd
of
the
linnen
cloth
,
wherwith
Iesus
Christ
dyd
wype
his
apostles
feete
,
after
that
he
had
washed
them
.
There
is
one
at
Rome
at
Sanct
Iohn
of
Latran
:
another
at
Aix
in
Dutchland
at
sainct
Cornelius
with
the
signe
of
Iudas
fote
.
It
must
nedes
be
that
the
one
or
the
other
is
false
.
What
shall
we
then
iudge
?
Let
vs
suffer
them
to
debate
the
matter
one
against
another
,
vntyll
suche
tyme
as
one
of
the
partyes
haue
verified
the
cause
.
In
the
meane
tyme
let
vs
thynke
that
it
is
nothing
but
disceyte
,
for
to
go
about
to
make
men
beleue
that
the
cloth
which
Iesus
Christ
left
in
the
house
where
he
made
his
supper
shoulde
flye
(
fyue
or
syxe
hundred
yere
after
the
destruction
of
Ierusalem
)
either
into
Italy
or
Dutchlande
.
I
had
forgotten
the
bread
wherwith
fiue
thousand
were
miraculouslye
fedde
in
the
Wyldernesse
,
whereof
one
peece
is
to
be
shewed
at
Rome
,
in
the
church
of
our
Ladye
the
newe
.
And
a
lytle
porcion
thereof
at
Saincte
Sauiours
in
Spaine
.
It
is
sayd
in
the
Scripture
that
there
was
a
certaine
porcion
of
Manna
reserued
,
for
a
remembrance
that
God
had
miraculously
fedde
the
people
of
Israell
in
the
Wildernes
.
But
of
the
leauinges
that
were
left
of
the
fyue
loaues
,
the
Gospell
maketh
no
mencion
that
there
was
anye
reserued
to
such
an
ende
or
purpose
:
and
there
is
no
auncient
historye
that
speaketh
thereof
,
nor
any
Doctour
of
the
churche
.
It
is
very
easye
to
be
iudged
that
thys
(
which
they
doe
nowe
shewe
)
hathe
bene
kned
and
made
since
that
tyme
.
So
muche
is
to
be
iudged
of
the
bowe
that
is
at
Sainct
Sauiours
in
Spayne
.
For
they
say
that
it
is
the
same
that
Iesus
helde
in
hys
handes
when
he
entred
into
Ierusalem
on
Paulme
Sondaye
,
nowe
the
Gospell
maketh
no
mencion
that
he
dyd
holde
any
such
,
therefore
it
is
an
imagined
thing
.
Finally
,
we
must
place
in
thys
rancke
,
another
relique
which
semeth
the
selfe
same
:
that
is
the
earth
whereon
Iesus
Christ
stode
when
he
raised
vp
Lazarus
.
I
prai
you
who
was
it
that
marked
the
place
so
well
,
that
after
the
destruction
of
Ierusalem
,
when
all
was
changed
in
the
countrey
of
Iuda
,
he
coulde
goe
so
rightlye
to
the
place
wher
Iesus
Christ
had
once
gone
.
It
is
time
to
come
to
the
principal
Reliques
of
oure
Lorde
Iesus
,
to
those
I
meane
that
appertayne
to
his
death
and
passion
.
And
fyrst
of
all
let
vs
begynne
to
speake
of
his
crosse
,
wherevpon
he
was
hanged
.
I
know
that
it
is
holden
for
a
certaintie
that
it
was
founde
of
Heline
the
mother
of
Constantine
the
Romaine
Emperour
.
I
knowe
also
what
certaine
Doctours
haue
written
touching
the
approbation
hereof
,
for
to
certifie
that
the
crosse
which
she
found
was
without
doute
the
selfe
same
on
the
whiche
Iesus
Christ
was
hanged
.
Touchynge
all
this
I
reporte
me
to
the
thynge
it selfe
,
so
much
is
there
that
it
was
but
a
folish
curiositie
of
her
,
or
at
the
least
a
folishe
and
vnconsidered
deuotion
.
But
yet
put
the
case
it
had
ben
a
worke
worthye
of
prayse
to
her
,
for
to
haue
taken
paynes
to
fynde
the
trewe
crosse
,
and
that
our
lord
had
then
declared
by
myracle
that
it
was
his
crosse
which
she
found
:
Yet
let
vs
onely
consider
that
which
is
of
our
time
.
Euery
one
doeth
holde
that
this
crosse
which
Helene
founde
is
yet
at
Ierusalem
,
and
none
doeth
doute
thereof
.
Although
the
Ecclesiasticall
history
against
sayeth
the
same
notablye
.
For
it
is
ther
recited
that
Helene
toke
one
part
therof
to
send
to
the
Emperour
her
sonne
,
who
put
the
same
at
Constantinople
vpon
a
fyne
pyller
of
Marble
in
the
myddest
of
the
market
.
Of
the
other
part
,
it
is
sayde
that
she
did
locke
the
same
in
a
copher
of
siluer
,
and
gaue
it
the
Bishop
of
Ierusalem
to
kepe
.
So
then
eyther
we
shall
augment
the
historie
of
a
lie
or
els
that
which
is
holden
at
this
daye
of
the
true
Crosse
,
is
but
a
vayne
and
triflyng
opinion
.
Let
vs
consider
on
the
other
part
howe
many
peeces
there
are
therof
through
out
the
worlde
.
Yf
I
woulde
onely
recite
that
whych
I
coulde
say
,
there
woulde
be
a
regester
sufficient
to
fyl
a
whole
boke
.
There
is
not
so
litle
a
town
wher
there
is
not
some
peece
thereof
,
and
that
not
onelye
in
cathedrall
churchs
,
but
also
in
some
parishes
Likewise
ther
is
not
so
wicked
an
abbey
where
there
is
not
of
it
to
be
shewed
.
And
in
som
places
ther
are
good
great
shydes
:
as
at
the
holye
chappell
of
Paris
,
and
at
Poiters
&
at
Rome
,
where
there
is
a
great
crucifix
made
therof
as
men
saye
.
To
be
short
,
yf
a
man
woulde
gather
together
all
that
hath
bene
founde
of
thys
crosse
,
there
would
be
inough
to
fraighte
a
great
ship
.
The
Gospell
testifieth
that
the
crosse
myght
be
caried
of
one
man
What
audacitie
then
was
this
to
fyll
the
earth
wyth
peeces
of
wod
in
suche
quantitie
,
that
thre
hundred
men
can
not
cary
them
?
And
in
deede
they
haue
forged
this
excuse
that
howe
muche
so
euer
be
cut
therefrom
,
yet
it
neuer
decreseth
.
But
this
a
mockerye
so
absurde
and
folyshe
,
that
euen
the
supersticious
men
themselues
know
the
contrary
.
I
leaue
them
to
iudge
what
certentie
a
man
mai
haue
of
all
the
trew
crosses
that
are
worshypped
here
and
there
.
I
leaue
to
declare
from
whence
,
and
by
what
meanes
certayne
peeces
are
come
.
As
some
saye
,
that
the
which
they
haue
hereof
,
was
broughte
them
by
Angels
:
others
saye
that
it
fell
from
heauen
to
them
.
Those
of
Poiters
saye
that
that
which
they
haue
thereof
,
was
brought
them
by
one
of
Helenes
ladyes
who
had
stolne
the
same
:
and
as
she
fled
she
was
founde
(
beyng
gone
astraye
)
nere
vnto
Poitou
.
Thei
ad
to
this
fable
that
she
was
lame
.
Behold
the
goodly
foundations
they
haue
to
persuade
the
poore
people
to
commit
Idolatrye
:
For
they
haue
not
bene
content
to
deceyue
and
abuse
the
simple
people
in
shewynge
common
wodde
in
stede
of
the
crosse
,
but
thei
haue
resolued
that
it
ought
to
be
worshipped
,
which
is
a
deuylishe
doctrine
and
sainct
Ambrose
namely
hath
reproued
it
,
as
a
Heathenesse
supersticion
.
After
the
crosse
foloweth
the
title
which
Pilate
caused
to
be
put
thereon
,
where
he
had
written
,
Iesus
of
Nazareth
kyng
of
the
Iewes
.
But
it
were
requisite
that
we
shoulde
knowe
bothe
the
place
and
the
tyme
,
and
howe
it
was
founde
.
Some
wyll
say
to
me
that
Socrates
the
historian
of
the
church
maketh
mencion
thereof
.
I
grant
it
:
But
he
maketh
not
mencion
what
was
become
therof
.
So
then
this
witnesse
is
of
no
great
value
nor
force
.
Moreouer
it
was
a
writyng
made
in
haste
and
withoute
consideration
,
after
that
Iesus
Christ
was
crucified
.
Wherefore
to
shewe
a
table
curiouslye
made
,
as
it
were
to
be
kept
for
a
shew
,
is
without
all
reason
therein
.
So
then
although
there
were
but
one
only
title
,
it
might
neuerthelesse
be
counterfaite
false
and
fained
.
But
seynge
the
towne
of
Thoulouse
bosteth
to
haue
it
,
and
those
of
Rome
saye
there
against
,
shewing
it
in
the
church
of
the
holy
Roode
:
they
falsecifie
and
bely
one
the
other
.
Let
them
fight
together
then
so
much
as
they
wyl
:
in
the
ende
bothe
of
them
shal
be
conuicted
of
a
lye
,
yf
a
man
would
examine
the
thing
as
it
is
.
Yet
there
is
a
greater
combat
of
the
nayles
.
I
wyll
recite
them
onely
that
are
come
to
my
knowledge
.
Therevpon
there
is
not
so
lytle
a
childe
but
wyll
iudge
that
the
Deuyll
hath
to
much
deluded
the
worlde
in
takyng
from
it
both
vnderstandyng
and
reason
,
that
it
coulde
discerne
nothynge
in
thys
matter
.
If
the
auncient
writers
saye
trewe
,
Historia
trip
.
lib.
2
,
and
namely
Theodorite
Historiographer
of
the
auncient
churche
,
Helene
caused
one
to
be
nayled
on
her
sonnes
helmet
,
the
other
two
she
put
in
his
horse
bitte
.
How
be
it
Sainct
Ambrose
sayeth
not
fully
so
.
For
he
sayeth
that
one
was
put
in
Constantins
crowne
,
of
the
other
his
horsebit
was
made
,
and
the
thirde
Helene
kept
.
Wee
se
that
already
more
then
twelue
hundred
yeres
agone
this
hath
bene
in
controuersie
,
to
wit
,
what
was
become
of
the
nayles
.
What
certentie
can
be
had
of
them
then
at
thys
present
tyme
.
Now
at
Millan
they
boste
that
thei
haue
the
nayle
that
was
put
in
Constantines
horse
bitte
.
To
the
whiche
the
towne
of
Carpentras
opposeth
her selfe
,
sayinge
that
it
is
she
that
hath
it
.
Nowe
S.
Ambrose
doth
not
saye
that
the
nayle
was
knit
to
the
bitte
,
but
that
the
bitte
was
made
thereof
.
Whiche
thyng
can
in
no
wyse
be
made
to
agre
eyther
with
their
saying
of
Milan
,
or
with
theirs
of
Carpentras
.
Moreouer
there
is
one
in
Rome
at
Sainct
Helenes
:
annother
also
in
the
church
of
the
holy
crosse
,
another
at
Sene
,
another
at
Venis●
In
Germany
two
:
at
Collyne
one
at
the
three
Maries
:
another
at
Triers
,
one
in
Fraunce
at
the
holy
chappell
of
Paris
,
another
at
the
Carmes
,
one
also
at
Sainct
Denis
in
France
:
one
at
Burges
:
one
at
Tenaill
,
one
at
Draguigne
.
Beholde
here
fourtene
,
whereof
account
is
made
:
in
euery
place
they
alledge
good
approbation
for
them selues
,
as
they
suppose
.
And
so
it
is
that
euerye
one
hath
as
good
right
as
annother
.
Wherefor
there
is
no
better
way
then
to
make
them
all
passe
vnder
one
fidelium
.
That
is
to
saye
,
to
repute
all
that
they
saye
hereof
to
be
but
lyes
,
seyng
that
otherwise
a
man
shoulde
neuer
come
to
an
ende
.
There
foloweth
the
Speare-head
which
can
be
but
one
:
but
we
must
nedes
saye
that
it
hath
passed
throughe
the
fournace
of
some
alcumiste
.
For
it
is
multiplied
to
four
beside
those
that
mai
be
in
other
places
here
and
there
,
whereof
I
haue
not
hearde
.
There
is
one
at
Rome
,
the
seconde
at
the
holye
chappel
of
Paris
,
the
thirde
in
the
abbey
of
Tenaill
,
at
sainct
Euge
:
the
fourth
at
Selne
,
near
to
Burges
.
Which
of
them
nowe
wyll
a
man
chuse
for
the
trewe
?
Wherefore
the
shortest
waye
is
to
leaue
them
al
foure
for
such
as
they
are
.
But
presuppose
that
there
were
but
one
onely
,
yet
I
would
know
from
whence
it
came
:
For
neither
the
auncient
histories
,
neither
also
al
the
other
writers
do
make
any
mencion
thereof
.
It
must
nedes
be
then
that
they
were
forged
a
new
.
Touchynge
the
crowne
of
thornes
,
we
muste
nedes
saye
that
the
peeces
thereof
wer
planted
again
for
to
grow
&
waxe
greene
:
otherwise
I
can
not
tell
howe
it
coulde
haue
bene
so
augmented
.
For
an
Item
,
there
is
the
third
part
in
the
holy
chappell
of
Paris
there
are
three
thornes
at
Rome
,
in
the
churche
of
the
holye
Crosse
:
and
in
the
church
of
S.
Eustace
,
of
Rome
likewise
some
litle
porcion
:
at
Sene
I
can
not
tell
how
many
thornes
:
at
Venice
one
:
at
Bourges
fyue
:
at
Besanson
,
in
Saynct
Iohns
church
thre
:
at
Muntroyal
three
:
at
S.
Sauiours
in
Spayne
,
I
can
not
tell
how
many
:
at
sainct
Iames
in
Galice
two
:
at
Albye
three
:
at
Tholouse
,
at
Mascou
,
at
Charoux
in
Poiters
,
at
Clere
,
at
sainct
Flour
,
at
Sainct
Maximin
in
Prouince
,
in
the
Abbey
of
Salle
:
in
the
parishe
church
of
S.
Martin
at
Noyon
:
in
euery
one
of
these
places
ther
is
at
the
least
one
.
If
one
woulde
make
diligent
inquisition
hereof
,
he
might
name
foure
times
as
many
.
Necessarily
it
is
sene
that
there
is
much
falsehode
vsed
herin
.
What
confidence
then
may
a
man
haue
either
of
the
one
or
the
other
?
Herewith
it
is
to
be
noted
,
that
in
the
whole
ancient
church
they
coulde
neuer
tell
what
was
become
of
this
crowne
.
Wherefore
it
is
easye
to
be
concluded
,
that
the
fyrst
plant
therof
beganne
to
budde
longe
tyme
after
the
death
of
oure
Lorde
Iesus
Christ
.
There
foloweth
after
the
gonne
of
Purple
wherewith
Pilate
cloched
our
Lorde
in
dirision
,
for
as
much
as
he
called
him selfe
a
king
Nowe
it
was
a
precious
robe
which
was
not
to
be
cast
away
:
&
it
is
not
to
be
thought
that
Pilate
or
his
men
would
let
it
be
lost
,
after
that
he
had
once
mocked
our
Lorde
Iesus
therewith
.
I
woulde
gladlye
knowe
who
was
the
marchaunt
that
bought
it
of
Pilate
to
kepe
it
for
a
relique
.
But
the
better
to
cloke
their
deceyt
:
they
shew
some
spots
of
bloude
thereon
,
as
if
these
wicked
men
woulde
haue
spylte
a
princely
robe
,
in
putting
it
by
mockedge
vpon
the
shulders
of
Iesus
Christ
I
know
not
whether
there
be
any
more
in
any
other
place
.
But
of
the
garment
that
was
wouen
from
top
to
toe
without
seme
whereon
lottes
were
cast
,
because
that
it
semed
more
proper
to
moue
the
simple
people
to
deuotion
ther
hath
ben
diuers
founde
:
for
there
is
one
at
Argenteul
near
Paris
,
&
at
Trier
another
.
And
if
the
bulle
of
Sainct
Sauiours
in
Spaine
sayth
trewe
,
the
Christians
through
theyr
rashe
vnconsidered
zeale
,
haue
done
worse
then
euer
did
the
vnfaithfull
souldiours
,
for
they
durst
not
teare
it
in
peces
,
but
for
to
spare
it
cast
lots
therefore
:
and
the
Christians
haue
torne
it
in
peces
to
worship
it
.
But
yet
what
wyll
thei
answere
to
the
Turke
,
who
mocketh
their
follye
,
saying
that
he
hath
it
in
hys
handes
.
Howbeit
,
it
is
not
now
nedeful
to
make
them
plede
agaynst
the
Turk
for
it
suffiseth
that
they
ende
the
strife
amonge
them selues
.
The
meane
while
we
shal
be
holden
excused
thoughe
we
beleue
neyther
the
one
nor
the
other
,
for
feare
lest
we
shoulde
fauoure
the
one
parte
more
then
the
other
,
wythoute
knowledge
of
the
cause
,
for
that
were
against
all
reason
.
Moreouer
if
thei
wold
that
men
shuld
beleue
theyr
sayings
.
It
is
first
of
all
requisite
that
thei
wold
agre
with
the
Euangelists
.
Now
it
is
so
that
this
garment
wherevpon
lots
were
caste
,
was
a
coat
or
a
Iacket
:
which
the
Grekes
cal
Clicoton
and
the
Latins
tunica
.
Let
one
marke
if
the
garment
of
Argenteul
,
or
that
of
Trier
haue
such
a
forme
and
fashion
.
One
shal
finde
it
to
be
like
a
priestes
cope
although
thei
should
put
out
mens
eyes
,
yet
myghte
they
know
their
fashold
by
feling
with
their
handes
.
To
make
an
ende
of
this
article
,
I
woulde
gladly
aske
a
litle
question
touching
that
that
the
souldiers
did
.
What
moued
the
souldiers
to
deuide
amongst
them
the
garmentes
and
coat
of
Iesus
Christ
as
the
scripture
witnesseth
It
is
most
certaine
that
it
was
to
serue
them selues
for
their
owne
profite
.
Let
them
tell
me
yf
they
can
who
was
that
Christian
that
boughte
them
of
the
souldiours
,
I
meane
as
well
the
coat
as
the
other
garments
that
ar
shewed
in
other
places
,
as
at
Rome
in
the
churche
of
Sainct
Eustace
,
and
els
where
.
Howe
is
it
that
the
Euangelistes
haue
forgotten
this
?
For
it
is
an
absurde
thing
to
saye
that
the
souldiours
had
taken
in
boutye
the
garmentes
,
without
addyng
that
they
were
bought
of
them
agayne
at
their
handes
for
to
make
reliques
of
.
Moreouer
,
howe
is
it
,
that
all
the
auncient
wryters
,
haue
bene
so
ingrate
to
make
no
mencion
thereof
?
I
geue
them
terme
to
answere
me
to
these
questions
,
when
men
shall
haue
no
moore
sence
,
nor
vnderstandynge
to
iudge
.
The
best
is
that
wyth
the
garment
they
woulde
also
haue
the
Dise
,
wherewith
the
lot
was
cast
by
the
souldyours
.
The
one
is
at
Trier
,
and
two
other
,
at
Sayncte
Sauyoures
in
Spaine
.
Wherein
they
haue
shewed
lyuely
what
is
their
folyshenesse
:
For
the
Euangelistes
saye
,
that
the
Souldyours
dyd
caste
Lottes
,
whyche
were
then
drawen
oute
of
an
Hatte
,
or
oute
of
somme
such
lyke
thyng
.
Euen
as
when
men
chuse
the
kyng
of
the
Beane
,
or
when
as
men
playe
at
the
Blancke
,
or
at
such
other
lyke
games
and
pastimes
.
To
bee
shorte
,
euerye
man
almoste
knoweth
what
castynge
of
Lottes
meaneth
:
it
is
commonly
vsed
in
deuydyng
of
partes
.
These
Beastes
haue
imagyned
that
the
castynge
of
the
Lottes
,
was
to
playe
at
Dise
:
When
they
were
not
in
vsage
,
at
the
least
such
as
we
haue
it
now
in
our
time
:
for
in
steade
of
sixe
and
ace
and
other
poynctes
,
they
had
certayne
markes
which
thei
named
by
theyr
names
:
as
Venus
or
dogge
.
Now
let
them
that
wyll
go
kisse
the
reliques
in
credite
of
so
loude
,
playne
,
and
manifest
lyers
.
It
is
time
to
entreat
of
the
head
shete
wherein
they
haue
yet
more
plainly
shewed
as
wel
their
impudencie
as
their
folyshenes
,
for
besides
the
heade
shete
of
the
veronicque
which
is
shewed
at
Rome
in
Sainct
Peters
church
,
and
the
kercher
that
the
virgyn
Mary
,
as
they
say
:
put
about
the
priuy
membres
of
our
Lord
,
which
is
shewed
at
Sainct
Iohn
of
Latrans
:
The
whiche
is
also
at
the
Augustines
of
Carcossone
.
Item
the
cloth
that
was
put
vpon
his
head
in
the
sepulchre
,
whiche
likewise
is
shewed
there
.
There
are
halfe
a
dousen
townes
at
the
leaste
,
that
doe
boaste
to
haue
whole
wyndynge
shete
of
the
sepulchre
.
As
Nice
it
was
transported
from
Chamberie
thither
.
Item
Aix
in
Dutchlande
.
Item
at
Traicte
:
Item
at
Besanson
:
Item
at
Cadoin
in
Limosine
:
Item
a
towne
of
Lorraigne
,
standyng
vpon
the
porte
of
Assois
.
Besides
the
peces
that
are
disparsed
from
one
side
to
another
.
As
at
Sainct
Sauiours
in
Spaine
,
and
at
the
Augustins
of
Albie
.
I
leaue
oute
yet
a
whole
windyng
shete
,
which
is
at
Rome
in
a
monestarie
of
women
:
because
that
the
Pope
dyd
forbyde
to
shew
it
solemnlye
.
I
praye
you
hath
not
the
worlde
bene
merueylouslye
enraged
,
to
trot
a
hundred
or
sixe
score
legues
longe
,
wyth
greate
charges
and
great
paynes
,
for
to
see
a
cloute
,
of
the
which
they
coulde
haue
no
certentie
,
but
rather
wer
constrayned
to
dout
thereof
?
for
whosouer
estemeth
or
iudgeth
the
windyng
shete
to
be
in
one
certaine
place
,
he
maketh
all
the
others
false
,
which
boste
that
they
haue
it
.
As
for
example
,
he
that
beleueth
that
the
cloth
of
Chamberie
is
the
right
windynge
shete
,
he
condemneth
those
of
Besanson
,
of
Aix
,
of
Cadoin
,
of
Trier
and
of
Rome
,
as
lyers
,
and
as
them
that
wickedly
make
the
people
commit
Idolatrye
in
deceyuyng
them
,
and
making
them
beleue
that
a
prophane
cloth
is
the
winding
shete
wherein
theyr
redemer
was
wrapt
.
Let
vs
nowe
come
to
the
gospell
,
for
it
wer
but
a
smal
matter
for
them
to
accuse
one
another
of
a
lye
,
but
the
holy
ghost
speakynge
agaynst
all
,
doeth
confounde
them
altogether
aswell
one
as
another
.
Fyrst
of
all
it
is
much
meruaile
that
the
Euangelistes
make
no
mencion
of
this
portrature
that
touched
the
face
of
IESVS
CHRIST
with
a
kercher
:
seing
they
make
mencion
of
all
the
women
that
did
accompany
hym
to
the
crosse
.
It
was
a
right
notable
thyng
and
worthy
to
be
regestred
,
that
the
face
of
Iesus
Christ
should
be
miraculouslye
imprinted
in
a
lynnen
clothe
:
contrarywyse
,
it
semeth
that
it
is
but
a
matter
of
small
importance
,
to
saye
that
certayne
women
dyd
accompanye
Iesus
Christ
to
the
crosse
,
without
there
had
chaunsed
some
miracle
to
them
.
How
is
it
then
that
the
Euangelistes
rehearse
smale
thynges
and
of
lytle
importance
,
holdyng
their
peece
and
makynge
no
mencion
of
principall
thinges
?
Truly
if
such
a
miracle
had
bene
done
as
some
make
men
to
beleue
we
muste
needes
accuse
the
holye
ghost
of
forgetfulnesse
,
or
lacke
of
discretion
:
that
he
could
not
chuse
prudently
that
which
was
moste
expedient
for
to
be
reported
.
Thus
much
be
spoken
touchyng
the
veronicque
shete
to
the
end
that
men
might
know
what
an
euident
and
manifest
lye
it
is
which
they
wold
persuade
the
simple
in
.
Moreouer
concerning
the
windyng
shete
in
which
the
body
was
wrapped
,
I
aske
them
a
like
question
,
the
Euengelestes
recite
diligently
the
miracles
that
were
done
at
the
death
of
Iesus
Christ
,
and
do
leaue
nothinge
out
that
appertaineth
to
the
historie
:
howe
is
it
then
that
thys
escaped
them
,
that
they
speake
neuer
a
worde
of
so
excellent
a
miracle
.
To
wit
that
the
printe
of
the
body
of
our
Lord
Iesus
dyd
remaine
in
the
lynnen
cloth
wherein
he
was
buried
.
This
if
it
had
bene
so
,
was
as
worthy
to
be
spoken
of
,
as
manye
other
things
.
Yea
the
holy
Euangelist
sainct
Iohn
declareth
,
howe
that
Sainct
Peter
beyng
,
entred
into
the
sepulchre
,
saw
the
linnen
clothes
of
the
sepulchre
,
the
one
of
one
side
,
the
other
on
the
other
syde
:
but
that
there
was
anye
miraculous
portrature
,
he
maketh
no
mencion
.
And
it
is
not
to
be
thought
or
presumed
if
there
had
ben
any
such
matter
,
that
he
wold
haue
suppressed
such
a
worke
of
God
.
There
is
yet
another
dout
to
be
obiected
:
that
is
that
the
Euangelists
make
no
mencion
that
any
of
the
disciples
or
of
the
faythfull
women
,
did
cary
awaye
the
shetes
(
wherof
the
question
is
)
out
of
the
scripture
:
but
rather
they
giue
vs
to
vnderstand
that
they
left
them
there
,
although
they
playnely
expresse
not
the
same
.
Nowe
the
sepulchre
was
kept
with
the
souldiours
.
Who
afterwardes
had
the
shete
in
their
owne
power
.
Is
it
to
be
supposed
or
thought
,
that
they
gaue
it
some
faithfull
man
or
woman
for
to
make
reliques
of
?
Seinge
the
Pharises
had
corrupted
them
for
to
make
them
forsweare
them selues
,
saying
that
the
disciples
had
stolne
the
bodye
:
I
leaue
to
reproue
them
of
falsehode
,
euen
by
the
very
sight
of
the
pictures
that
they
shew
.
For
it
is
easie
to
be
sene
that
they
were
payntinges
made
by
mans
hande
.
And
I
can
not
merueyll
ynough
fyrst
,
howe
they
were
such
blockheads
that
they
had
no
better
fetch
for
to
deceyue
:
and
much
more
,
how
the
worlde
hath
bene
so
doltishe
,
for
to
suffer
it selfe
to
be
blinded
in
such
sort
that
it
could
not
see
so
euident
a
thyng
.
Moreouer
they
haue
well
declared
that
they
had
the
painter
at
commaundement
.
For
when
one
wyndyng
shete
was
burned
there
was
alwayes
another
found
the
next
daye
.
They
woulde
notwithstandynge
saye
,
that
it
was
the
selfe
same
that
it
was
before
,
the
which
miraculouslye
was
saued
from
the
fyre
:
but
the
pryntyng
was
so
freshe
,
that
the
lye
auayled
nothyng
,
if
there
had
bene
eies
for
to
haue
sene
and
to
behold
But
yet
to
make
an
ende
wyth
.
There
is
a
paremptorye
reason
,
by
the
which
they
are
all
together
conuinced
of
their
impudencye
.
In
all
places
where
as
they
saye
they
haue
the
holye
winding
shete
thei
showe
a
greate
shete
,
whiche
did
conuer
all
the
body
with
the
head
:
and
their
in
is
to
be
sene
the
printe
of
a
body
togeather
al
in
one
pece
.
Nowe
the
Euangelyste
S.
Iohn
saithe
,
that
Iesus
Christ
was
buried
accordinge
to
the
maner
of
the
Iewes
.
And
what
their
maner
was
,
one
maye
,
not
onely
vnderstande
it
by
the
custume
that
the
Iewes
obserue
yeat
to
this
daye
,
but
also
by
their
bookes
,
whiche
sufficiently
declare
the
auncient
custume
that
is
to
binde
the
body
a
parte
euen
to
the
shoulders
,
after
to
wrappe
the
heade
in
a
kerchere
,
bindinge
it
at
the
foure
corners
.
The
which
also
the
Euangeliste
expresseth
,
whan
he
sayethe
,
that
sainct
Petter
sawe
the
linnen
clothes
of
one
side
wherein
the
body
hade
bene
wraped
:
and
of
an
other
side
the
kercher
whiche
was
put
vpon
the
heade
for
such
is
the
signification
of
this
word
Suaire
,
to
take
it
for
an
hankerchere
or
couercheffe
,
and
not
for
a
greate
shete
,
that
serueth
to
wrape
the
body
in
.
For
to
conclud
briefly
,
Ether
the
Euangeliste
sainct
Iohn
must
be
a
lyer
or
els
all
they
that
boste
them selues
to
haue
the
winding
shete
must
be
conuicted
of
falshode
,
and
it
must
euidentlye
haue
apered
that
they
haue
,
deaceaued
the
poore
people
,
by
a
moste
extreme
impudency
it
should
neuer
be
done
if
I
wold
intreate
perticulerly
,
al
the
mockeries
that
they
vse
:
one
dothe
showe
at
Rome
at
saincte
Iohn
of
Latran
,
the
rede
that
was
put
by
mocking
in
Iesus
Christes
hand
in
stead
of
a
septer
when
he
was
beaten
in
Pylates
howse
.
Lykewyse
at
the
churche
of
the
crosse
is
showen
the
sponge
,
wher
the
gall
and
myrrhe
was
put
in
his
mouthe
.
I
praye
you
,
where
is
it
that
thei
recouered
them
?
It
was
the
Infidelses
that
hade
them
in
their
handes
,
dyde
they
delyuer
them
thinke
we
to
the
Apostles
to
make
reliques
of
them
?
Or
dide
they
them selues
looke
them
vp
,
for
to
preserue
them
for
the
time
to
come
?
What
sacreledge
is
this
so
to
abuse
the
name
of
Iesus
Christ
,
for
to
cloke
and
couer
fables
so
leude
lye
forged
?
Asmuche
is
of
the
pence
that
Iudas
receued
,
for
betraying
of
our
lorde
.
It
is
sayde
in
the
Gospell
,
that
he
dyd
render
them
agayne
in
the
sinagoge
of
the
pharises
,
and
that
after
they
bowght
afylde
therewith
for
to
burye
the
strangers
.
Who
is
it
that
hathe
gotten
those
pence
from
the
merchantes
Handes
.
If
one
should
say
that
it
was
the
desciples
,
that
were
to
folyshe
.
Therfore
a
better
coulor
must
be
sought
to
cloke
the
matter
.
If
on
saye
that
it
was
done
longe
tyme
after
:
yet
that
were
lesse
apparente
,
forsomuche
as
the
mony
myght
haue
passed
throughe
many
mens
handes
.
They
must
neades
showe
them
that
either
the
marchante
that
solde
his
possession
to
the
pharises
for
to
make
a
buriynge
place
,
did
it
for
to
buye
the
pence
,
to
make
reliques
of
them
:
or
otherwyse
that
he
sold
them
againe
to
the
faithefull
.
Now
hereof
their
was
neuer
newes
in
the
auncient
Churche
.
It
is
a
like
glose
of
the
stayres
of
Pilates
Iudgement
halle
,
whiche
are
at
S.
Iohn
of
latran
at
Rome
with
holes
:
where
they
say
dropes
of
blood
fell
from
the
body
of
our
lorde
Iesus
Christ
.
Item
in
the
same
place
in
the
Church
of
sainct
.
Praxede
,
the
piller
wherto
he
was
bounde
,
when
he
was
scourged
,
and
in
the
churche
of
the
holy
crosse
three
others
rounde
about
the
which
he
was
lead
when
he
went
to
his
death
.
I
knowe
not
where
they
haue
dreamed
on
all
these
pellers
:
so
is
it
that
they
haue
imagened
them
of
their
owne
fantesyes
for
in
the
holle
historye
of
the
Gospell
we
reade
nothing
of
them
.
It
is
sayde
that
Iesus
Christe
was
whipped
but
that
he
was
bonde
to
a
peller
that
is
of
their
glose
.
One
maye
easely
see
then
,
that
they
haue
gone
about
nothing
els
but
to
heape
as
it
were
a
seae
full
of
lyes
.
Wherin
they
haue
geuen
them selues
suche
lybertye
,
that
they
haue
not
bene
ashamed
to
make
a
relique
of
the
asses
taile
whereon
our
lord
Iesus
rode
:
for
it
is
to
be
showne
at
Genes:
but
we
haue
no
more
cause
to
be
astonishede
at
their
iupudencie
,
then
at
the
folishenesse
&
stupidite
of
the
world
who
hath
receiued
wyth
great
deuotion
such
a
delusion
.
Some
man
might
obiecte
heare
that
it
is
not
like
that
they
doe
showe
all
the
Reliques
which
we
haue
already
named
autentiklye
but
that
they
can
also
by
&
by
,
proue
from
whense
they
come
,
&
out
of
whose
handes
they
haue
receaued
them
.
To
this
I
coulde
answere
in
one
worde
,
that
in
so
euident
lyes
it
is
not
possible
to
pretende
any
aparances
of
trewthe
.
For
howe
so
euer
they
arme
them selues
with
the
name
of
Constantine
,
or
of
King
Louis
,
or
of
any
pope
:
all
this
aualith
nothinge
,
for
to
approue
that
Iesus
Christ
was
nayled
with
fourtene
nayles
:
or
that
a
hole
hedge
was
consumed
to
make
hys
croune
of
thornes
with
:
or
that
one
Speare
blade
shuld
haue
ingendrede
since
,
thre
others
:
or
that
his
cotte
shuld
be
multiplied
into
thre
,
and
haue
chaunged
fashion
for
to
become
a
pristes
:
coope
or
that
of
on
onelye
windinge
shete
their
should
haue
spronge
a
broode
as
it
were
the
Chikennes
of
one
Henne
:
that
IESVS
CHRIST
was
buryed
cleane
contrarye
to
the
maner
that
the
Ghospell
mencyoneth
.
If
I
shoulde
showe
a
Lumpe
of
leade
,
and
shoulde
saye
.
This
Lumpe
of
Golde
was
geuen
me
by
such
a
prince
,
I
shoulde
be
estemed
for
a
mad
foole
,
and
for
my
saying
the
leade
wold
not
change
his
colour
,
nor
his
nature
for
to
be
changed
into
golde
.
So
when
they
say
to
vs
,
behold
what
Godfrey
of
Bullon
did
sende
hether
,
after
he
had
conquered
the
countrey
of
Iude
:
and
that
reason
doth
declare
vnto
vs
,
that
it
is
but
a
lye
:
shoulde
we
suffer
our selues
to
be
abused
wyth
the
wordes
,
and
not
beholde
that
whyche
we
see
before
our
eyes
?
But
yet
,
to
th
ende
that
we
may
knowe
howe
sure
it
is
to
truste
to
all
that
they
aledge
for
the
approbation
of
their
reliques
:
it
is
to
be
noted
that
the
principall
Relyques
and
the
moste
notable
that
be
at
Rome
were
brought
thither
(
as
they
saye
)
by
Tytus
and
Vaspasian
.
Trewlye
it
is
as
playne
a
mockedge
,
as
if
one
shoulde
saye
that
the
Turke
wente
to
Ierusalem
,
for
to
seeke
the
holye
Crosse
of
IESVS
CHRIST
to
the
ende
to
place
it
at
Constantinnople
.
Vaspasian
,
before
he
was
chosen
Emperour
conquered
and
destroyed
part
of
Iude
afterwardes
,
when
he
came
to
the
Empyre
he
lefte
hys
sonne
Titus
to
be
hys
Leutenant
,
who
afterwards
won
the
citie
of
Ierusalem
.
Nowe
these
were
heathen
,
who
cared
or
set
as
muche
by
Iesus
Christe
as
by
him
that
neuer
had
bene
.
So
one
may
iudge
whether
they
durst
not
as
frely
lye
in
alledgyng
Godfrey
of
Bullon
or
sainct
Louys
,
as
they
haue
alledged
Vaspasien
.
Furthermore
,
let
it
be
considered
what
iudgement
as
well
the
kyng
had
(
whome
they
call
sainct
Louys
,
as
all
other
such
like
had
.
He
had
in
dede
(
such
as
it
was
)
a
deuotion
&
zeale
for
to
augment
christendome
:
but
if
one
shoulde
haue
shewed
them
goates
dunge
,
and
haue
saide
to
them
beholde
here
be
our
Ladyes
Beades
:
they
woulde
without
any
agayne
saying
haue
worshipped
them
,
or
woulde
haue
brought
them
hyther
in
their
shippes
for
to
haue
set
them
vp
honorably
in
som
place
:
and
in
very
dede
they
haue
consumed
their
bodies
&
their
goods
&
a
great
part
of
the
substaunce
of
their
countrey
,
for
to
bring
ouer
an
heape
of
smal
trifles
,
wherewith
they
were
brought
in
a
fooles
Paradise
,
thinkinge
that
they
were
the
moste
precious
Iewels
in
the
worlde
.
But
yet
to
geue
more
ample
vnderstandynge
of
this
matter
,
it
is
to
be
noted
,
that
in
all
Grecia
and
the
lesse
Asia
,
and
Mauritania
,
whyche
we
nowe
commonly
call
the
countrey
of
Iude
,
they
shew
with
great
assuraunce
al
these
antiquities
,
which
the
poore
Idolatours
that
be
about
vs
thynke
that
they
haue
.
What
is
to
be
iudged
betwen
the
one
and
the
other
?
We
shall
saye
the
reliques
were
broughte
vs
from
those
countreys
.
The
Christians
that
yet
remain
ther
,
affirme
that
they
haue
them
:
and
deride
our
folyshe
bostyng
.
How
should
one
decide
thys
processe
without
an
inquisition
,
which
can
not
be
made
,
nor
neuer
wil
be
made
?
wherfore
the
only
remedy
is
to
leaue
the
thyng
as
it
is
,
not
caryng
neither
for
the
one
part
nor
for
the
other
.
The
laste
reliques
that
appertain
to
Iesus
Christ
are
those
that
they
haue
had
since
his
resurrection
:
as
a
morsell
of
a
broyled
fyshe
which
sainct
Peter
presented
him
when
he
appeared
to
hym
on
the
border
of
the
sea
.
We
must
nedes
say
that
it
was
wel
spiced
,
or
that
it
was
merueylously
well
soussed
that
it
coulde
be
preserued
so
long
a
time
.
But
withoute
laughter
it
is
to
be
thought
that
the
Apostles
made
a
relique
of
the
fishe
which
they
had
prepared
for
their
dynner
?
Whosoeuer
shall
not
see
that
this
is
a
manifest
and
open
mockedge
of
God
,
I
leaue
him
as
a
beast
,
which
is
not
worthye
that
one
shoulde
teache
hym
anye
further
.
Ther
is
also
the
miraculous
blood
which
issued
out
of
the
cake
Gods
as
at
Paris
in
sainct
Iohns
churche
,
at
Dion
at
Sainct
Iohn
the
Euangelists
church
and
elles
where
in
many
places
.
And
to
the
ende
they
might
make
the
heape
more
greater
,
they
haue
ioyned
thereto
the
holye
penknife
where
with
our
maister
of
Querne
was
not
content
:
but
did
reproch
them
that
thei
were
worse
then
Iewes
:
For
asmuche
as
they
did
worship
the
knife
,
that
had
bene
an
instrument
to
violate
the
precious
bodye
of
Iesus
Christe
.
The
which
I
alledge
,
because
as
much
might
be
sayde
of
the
speare
,
nayles
,
and
thornes
.
That
is
that
al
they
that
worshyppe
them
(
according
to
our
mayster
of
Quernes
sentence
)
are
more
wycked
then
the
Iewes
,
who
crucified
our
Lord
.
Likewise
they
shewe
the
forme
and
prynt
of
his
fete
,
where
he
marched
when
he
appeared
to
certaine
of
his
disciples
after
his
ascention
,
as
there
is
one
at
Rome
in
Sainct
Laurence
church
in
the
place
where
he
met
Sainct
Peter
,
when
he
foreshewed
him
that
he
shoulde
suffer
at
Rome
.
Another
at
Poiters
at
S.
Raguonde
another
at
Soison
,
an
other
in
Arles
.
I
dispute
not
weather
Iesus
Christ
coulde
haue
imprinted
the
fourme
and
fashion
of
his
fete
on
a
stone
.
But
I
only
dispute
of
the
facte
,
and
I
saye
,
that
seyng
there
is
no
lawfull
probation
hereof
,
all
this
ought
to
be
counted
for
a
fable
.
But
the
most
beastly
relique
of
this
kynde
is
the
forme
of
his
hippes
which
is
at
Reins
in
Champania
,
vpon
a
stone
behynd
the
hyghe
aultare
.
And
they
saye
that
thys
was
done
at
such
tyme
as
oure
Lorde
became
a
Mason
,
for
to
buylde
their
church
porche
.
This
blasphemie
is
so
execrable
that
I
am
ashamed
to
speake
any
more
thereof
.
Let
vs
then
passe
further
,
and
let
vs
se
what
is
said
of
his
images
:
I
mean
not
of
them
which
are
comonly
made
by
painters
,
stonegrauers
or
Ioyners
,
for
the
number
of
them
is
infinite
:
but
of
those
which
haue
a
certayn
special
dignitie
for
to
be
kept
,
and
contende
with
some
singularitie
as
reliques
.
Now
hereof
there
are
two
sortes
:
Some
were
made
miraculouslye
:
As
that
whiche
is
shewed
at
Rome
in
Sayncte
Maries
churche
,
that
they
call
in
Poeticu
.
Item
another
at
S.
Iohn
of
Latrans
.
Item
another
wherein
is
drawen
his
picture
at
the
age
of
.xii.
yeres
.
Item
that
of
Lukes
which
the
saye
was
made
by
the
angels
&
which
thei
cal
vultus
sanctus
.
These
are
such
fonde
vayne
fables
that
it
semeth
to
me
it
shoulde
be
lost
labour
,
yea
&
that
it
should
be
rediculous
and
folishe
if
I
dyd
occupy
my selfe
therein
.
Wherefore
it
sufficetth
to
haue
noted
them
by
the
way
for
men
knowe
ryghte
well
that
thys
is
not
the
exercise
or
vocation
of
angels
to
to
be
paynters
:
and
that
our
lorde
Iesus
wyll
otherwise
be
knowen
of
vs
and
brought
into
oure
remembraunce
then
by
carnal
images
.
Eusebius
in
dede
writeth
in
the
Ecclesiasticall
historie
that
he
sent
a
lyuelye
Printe
of
hys
visage
to
kynge
Abagarus
but
this
is
as
certaine
and
of
as
much
credit
as
one
of
kyng
Melusines
commandementes
in
his
chronicles
.
and
folishe
that
the
most
part
count
this
as
certaine
as
the
Ghospel
.
I
place
also
in
this
ranke
the
crucifixes
,
that
haue
spoken
,
wherof
the
multitude
is
great
but
let
vs
be
content
with
one
for
an
example
.
To
witte
,
with
that
of
sainct
Denis
in
Fraunce
.
It
spake
saye
they
,
for
to
beare
witnesse
that
the
church
was
dedicated
I
leaue
it
to
be
considered
whether
the
thing
were
worthe
so
much
.
But
yet
I
aske
them
,
howe
is
it
that
the
crucifix
could
be
then
in
the
Church
,
seing
that
when
men
wil
dedicate
them
they
remoue
all
the
Images
howe
stale
it
then
away
or
hide
it selfe
to
the
ende
it
myght
not
be
caried
awaye
with
the
others
we
must
neades
saye
that
they
thoughte
to
deceaue
the
world
at
their
pleasure
,
seing
that
they
haue
not
cared
manifestly
to
contrarye
them selues
but
that
it
hathe
suffysed
them
:
to
lye
with
open
mouth
not
regardinge
what
men
mygth
reply
agaynst
them
.
There
remaineth
last
of
all
the
teares
:
wherof
one
is
at
Vandosme
,
one
at
Trier
one
at
saynct
Maxymyn
,
one
at
sainct
peters
in
Orleans
,
besydes
them
that
I
knowe
not
.
Some
,
as
they
say
,
are
naturall
,
as
that
of
sainct
Maximin
,
which
according
to
their
Chronicles
,
fell
from
our
Lord
Iesus
whilest
he
washed
his
Apostles
fete
:
the
residue
are
miraculous
.
As
thoughe
it
were
to
be
beleued
,
that
the
woden
crucifixes
were
so
greued
or
sorowful
that
they
shoulde
weape
.
But
we
must
parden
them
this
faught
.
For
they
were
ashamed
that
theyr
Idolles
,
shoulde
not
doe
asmuch
as
those
of
the
heathen
.
Nowe
the
heathen
haue
fained
that
theyr
Idolles
did
wepe
certain
times
.
Wherfore
we
maye
right
well
put
them
together
.
As
concerning
the
viergen
Mary
,
forsomuch
as
they
holde
that
her
bodye
is
no
more
in
yearthe
,
the
meane
for
to
bost
themselues
to
haue
her
bones
is
taken
awaye
.
From
them
.
Otherwise
I
thynke
,
they
woulde
haue
made
the
world
beleue
,
that
she
had
had
a
body
sufficent
to
fell
a
great
poudryng
fatte
.
Moreouer
they
haue
venged
them selues
vpon
her
heare
,
and
on
her
milke
for
to
haue
some
parte
of
her
bodye
.
There
is
of
her
heare
at
Rome
at
sainct
Maries
Churche
vpon
miuerne
,
at
sainct
Sauiour
in
Spaine
at
Mascon
,
at
Cluny
,
at
Noers
,
at
sainct
Flour
,
at
S
Iaqueries
,
and
in
many
others
places
:
touching
the
mylke
is
not
nowe
nead
full
to
number
the
places
where
ther
is
of
it
neither
shuld
we
come
to
any
ende
therof
for
their
is
not
so
littell
a
towne
,
nor
so
wicked
a
conuent
be
it
of
monckes
or
be
it
of
Nones
,
wher
some
percell
therof
is
not
showed
some
more
,
some
lesse
not
that
they
were
not
ashamed
to
bost
themselues
to
haue
had
holle
potte
fulls
,
but
for
asmuche
as
thei
thought
that
their
lie
shuld
be
the
more
couered
.
They
haue
therfore
Inuented
to
shewe
onely
asmuch
therof
as
might
be
kept
in
a
glasse
to
the
ende
men
might
examen
it
no
nearer
.
So
that
if
the
holye
virgyne
hadde
bene
a
cowe
,
or
that
she
had
bene
a
norse
al
her
life
time
,
yet
could
she
not
scarsely
haue
geuen
suche
quantetye
of
milke
:
on
the
other
part
,
I
would
gladly
aske
them
,
how
this
milke
whych
at
this
present
daye
is
shewed
almost
throughout
the
world
was
geathered
,
for
to
be
preserued
vntyll
our
tyme
.
For
we
doe
not
reade
that
euer
anye
had
thys
curiositye
.
It
is
well
sayde
that
the
shepherdes
dyde
worshype
Iesus
Christe
,
and
that
the
wise
men
did
offer
to
him
their
presentes
:
but
it
is
not
saide
that
thei
did
carie
back
mylke
for
a
recompence
?
Saynct
luke
recitethe
that
which
Simeon
did
foreshewe
the
virgine
,
but
he
sayeth
not
that
he
asked
of
her
milke
.
If
one
shoulde
consider
but
onely
this
point
,
it
shoulde
not
be
nedefull
to
argue
any
further
for
to
declare
how
greatly
thys
folly
is
against
al
reason
,
and
without
all
kind
of
coniecture
and
cloke
.
And
it
is
meruell
(
seing
thei
could
haue
no
other
part
of
her
body
)
that
they
haue
not
bene
auysed
of
the
paring
of
her
nayles
,
and
of
suche
other
like
thinges
:
But
it
is
to
be
thought
that
they
haue
not
had
al
in
their
remembraunce
.
The
residue
of
the
reliques
which
thei
haue
of
our
Lady
,
is
of
her
baggage
or
clothes
.
There
is
one
of
her
smockes
at
Chartres
,
of
the
which
one
doth
make
an
Idoll
sufficiently
renomed
.
And
there
is
another
at
Aix
in
Dutchland
.
I
leaue
them
there
,
to
wit
,
how
thei
could
haue
gotten
them
.
For
it
is
a
thynge
moste
certaine
,
that
the
Apostles
and
the
trewe
Christians
of
their
time
,
haue
not
bene
so
doltishe
as
for
to
occupy
their
mindes
vpon
suche
vayne
trifles
.
But
let
one
beholde
onely
the
fourme
and
fashion
thereof
,
and
I
wyll
quite
the
play
,
if
in
beholdyng
it
one
do
not
playnly
see
their
impudencie
.
When
one
doth
shewe
the
smoke
,
(
which
we
haue
sayde
to
be
at
Aix
in
Dutchlande
:
)
one
doth
shew
at
the
ende
of
a
pole
,
as
it
were
a
long
white
surplice
of
a
priest
.
Nowe
if
the
virgine
Mary
had
bene
a
gyaunt
yet
coulde
she
scarcely
haue
worne
so
great
a
smok
.
And
for
to
make
a
better
shew
therof
,
one
doth
cary
straight
wayes
after
the
litle
hose
of
Sainct
Ioseph
,
which
are
lytle
ynough
for
a
lytle
childe
or
for
a
darfe
.
The
prouerbe
sayth
that
a
lyer
ought
to
haue
a
good
memory
,
for
feare
of
tripping
him self
by
forgetfulnes
.
Thei
haue
al
obserued
this
rule
,
when
thei
haue
not
thought
or
inuented
to
make
better
proporcion
of
the
husbands
hose
&
the
wiues
smoke
.
Let
men
now
goe
and
kisse
deuoutly
these
reliques
,
the
which
haue
no
other
appearance
of
truth
.
As
touching
her
kerchers
I
know
but
two
:
one
at
Trier
in
Maximins
abbey
:
another
at
Lisio
in
Italie
.
But
I
woulde
that
one
shoulde
marke
of
what
linnen
they
are
,
and
whether
they
did
weare
that
kynde
of
fashion
at
that
time
in
the
countrey
of
Iuda
.
I
woulde
also
that
men
shoulde
make
comparison
of
them
,
for
to
see
howe
like
they
be
the
one
to
the
other
.
At
Reuline
they
haue
as
it
were
a
browe
.
Some
peraduenture
wil
aske
me
,
if
I
think
that
this
brow
be
a
counterfaite
thing
.
I
answere
that
I
esteme
it
as
muche
as
her
gyrdle
,
which
is
at
Prat
,
and
as
that
which
is
at
oure
Ladyes
of
Montserret
.
Item
of
her
slypper
,
which
is
at
Sainct
Iaqueries
,
and
one
of
her
showes
,
which
is
at
Saincte
Flour
.
If
there
were
no
other
but
this
thing
yet
all
men
of
meane
wisedome
may
knowe
right
well
that
it
was
not
the
maner
or
vse
of
the
faithfull
to
gather
in
such
maner
and
sorte
hose
and
showes
for
to
make
reliques
:
and
moreouer
there
was
neuer
mencion
hereof
made
,
aboue
the
space
of
fyue
hundred
yeres
after
the
death
of
the
virgin
Mary
.
What
nede
we
then
argue
herevpon
any
longer
,
as
yf
the
thynge
were
doutfull
?
Yea
,
thei
woulde
make
the
holy
virgin
beleue
,
that
she
was
very
curious
to
decke
&
trim
her selfe
.
For
they
shewe
two
of
her
comes
.
One
at
Rome
,
in
saint
Martyns
churche
:
and
another
in
the
church
of
saint
Iohn
the
great
of
Besanson
,
besydes
them
which
myghte
be
shewed
other
where
.
If
thys
be
not
to
mocke
the
holy
virgyn
Mary
,
I
know
not
what
mockedge
is
.
Thei
haue
not
also
forgotten
her
weddyng
ryng
:
for
they
haue
it
at
Peruse
.
Because
now
the
custome
is
,
that
the
husbande
should
gyue
his
wyfe
a
weddynge
rynge
:
they
haue
imagyned
that
it
was
the
vse
at
that
time
.
And
without
makyng
further
inquisition
,
they
haue
ordeyned
and
made
a
riche
and
costly
ryng
to
thys
vse
,
not
considering
in
what
pouertie
the
holy
virgyne
lyued
.
There
is
of
her
gounes
at
Rome
at
S.
Iohn
of
Latran
.
Item
at
S.
Barbares
churche
.
Item
at
sainct
Maries
vpon
Mineru
e.
Item
,
at
sainct
Blase
churche
.
At
sainct
Sauiours
in
Spaine
.
At
the
least
they
say
they
haue
certaine
pieces
.
I
haue
hard
of
many
other
places
:
But
they
are
not
in
my
memorie
.
To
declare
and
showe
the
falshede
hereof
it
is
onlye
requisite
to
marke
well
the
matter
,
for
they
haue
thought
it
as
easie
to
them
for
to
attribute
such
kinde
of
vestments
at
their
pleasure
to
the
virgin
Mary
,
as
for
to
clothe
the
images
in
such
sort
as
they
clothe
them
.
It
resteth
to
entreate
of
images
not
of
the
common
sort
,
but
of
them
that
are
in
estimation
aboue
the
others
,
by
a
certaine
singularitie
.
Now
they
woulde
make
S.
Luke
beleue
that
he
paynted
foure
of
those
they
call
inuiolata
at
Rome
in
the
place
where
nowe
Sainct
Maries
churche
standeth
,
one
of
them
is
shewed
in
an
oratory
:
the
which
as
they
say
he
made
in
his
deuotion
,
with
the
ring
wherwith
Ioseph
wedded
her
.
There
is
another
shewed
likewise
at
Rome
at
the
new
sainct
Maries
,
the
which
thei
say
was
also
made
by
Sainct
Luke
in
Troades
,
and
that
since
that
time
it
was
brought
to
them
by
an
angell
.
Item
another
at
S.
Maries
Araceli
,
in
suche
likenes
as
she
was
when
she
stode
by
the
crosse
.
But
they
of
sainct
Augustines
boste
them selues
to
haue
the
chiefe
and
principall
:
for
it
is
it
(
if
one
beleue
them
)
that
sainct
Luke
caryed
alwayes
with
him
,
euen
vntil
he
made
it
to
be
buried
in
his
graue
I
praye
you
,
what
blasphemye
is
this
to
make
a
holy
euangelist
a
manifest
&
perfect
idolater
?
&
likewise
what
colour
or
cloke
haue
thei
for
to
persuade
men
that
S.
Luke
was
a
painter
.
S.
Paul
wel
calleth
him
a
Phisition
,
but
of
paynters
craft
I
know
not
where
they
haue
dreamed
it
.
And
though
it
were
he
had
bene
skilde
in
the
occupation
:
yet
not
wythstandynge
it
is
as
lykely
to
be
thought
,
that
he
woulde
haue
had
paynted
the
virgin
Marye
as
Iupiter
or
Venus
,
or
any
other
Idol
.
It
was
not
the
maner
of
Christians
to
haue
images
?
neither
hath
it
bene
of
longe
tyme
after
,
vntill
such
tyme
as
the
church
was
corrupted
with
superstitions
.
On
the
other
part
al
the
quarters
almost
of
the
worlde
are
full
of
Images
of
the
virgin
Mary
,
which
some
do
say
he
made
,
as
at
Cambery
,
and
here
and
there
.
But
after
what
sorte
and
forme
are
they
paynted
?
There
is
asmuch
honestie
and
comlynes
as
if
one
would
picture
a
dissolute
woman
.
Behold
how
god
hath
blinded
them
,
that
they
haue
had
no
more
consideration
then
brute
beastes
.
But
I
am
not
greatly
astonished
in
that
thei
haue
imputed
to
S.
Luke
for
to
haue
made
Images
of
the
virgine
seyng
they
haue
bene
so
bolde
to
impute
the
lyke
vnto
the
prophet
Ieremy
.
I
can
witnes
the
same
in
Auuergnie
.
It
shoulde
be
time
(
as
I
thinke
)
that
the
worlde
woulde
once
open
her
eyes
,
for
to
see
that
which
is
so
manifest
.
I
leaue
to
speake
of
S.
Ioseph
,
of
whom
som
haue
his
slippers
,
as
in
S.
Simons
abbey
of
Trier
.
Other
some
(
as
we
haue
already
said
)
his
hose
:
others
also
his
bones
.
The
example
which
I
haue
already
alledged
suffiseth
me
for
the
discouering
of
the
folishnes
that
is
therein
.
I
wil
place
S.
Mihell
here
,
to
the
ende
he
may
accompany
the
virgin
Mary
.
Some
will
thinke
that
I
do
as
it
were
iest
or
mock
,
in
rehearsing
the
reliques
of
an
Angell
.
Yea
the
abusers
them selues
haue
mocked
them
:
but
they
haue
not
therfore
letted
to
abuse
in
good
earnest
the
poore
people
:
For
at
Carcassone
they
bost
to
haue
certain
reliques
of
him
,
&
likewise
at
S.
Iulians
of
Tours
.
They
do
show
at
great
S.
Mihels
(
which
is
so
well
haunted
of
pilgrimes
)
his
sworde
which
is
like
a
childs
dagger
,
and
his
buckler
likewise
which
is
as
it
were
the
bosse
of
an
horse
bitte
.
There
is
neither
man
nor
woman
so
simple
,
who
may
not
iudge
what
mockerye
this
is
.
But
because
suche
lyes
are
conuered
vnder
shadowe
of
deuotion
,
it
semeth
that
it
is
not
ill
done
for
to
mocke
God
,
and
his
Angelles
.
Thei
wil
alledge
that
the
scripture
witneseth
that
sainct
Mihell
dide
fyght
against
the
Diuell
but
if
it
hade
bene
requisite
that
he
shoulde
haue
ouercome
the
diuell
with
the
sworde
it
was
neadfull
that
he
should
haue
had
one
more
stronger
,
better
pointed
and
of
a
better
blade
,
then
that
is
.
Are
they
such
beastes
to
imagine
that
it
was
a
carnall
combat
which
is
foughten
with
the
material
sword
which
aswell
the
Angelles
as
the
faythfull
haue
agaynst
the
diuells
?
But
it
is
as
I
haue
sayde
in
the
begeninge
:
that
the
worlde
worthelie
dede
deserue
to
be
deceaued
in
such
bestlinesse
:
forsomuch
as
it
was
so
peruersse
for
to
couet
to
worship
vaine
Idolles
&
maumettes
in
stead
of
worshiping
the
liuing
God
for
keapeng
of
order
It
is
now
requisit
that
we
should
intreat
of
S.
Iohn
Baptist
:
who
(
according
to
the
Euangelicall
histori
)
after
he
was
beheded
,
was
buried
by
his
disciples
.
Theodorit
an
auncient
cronicler
of
the
church
mencioneth
that
his
sepulchre
being
in
Sebaste
,
a
towne
of
Siria
was
opened
(
a
certain
time
after
)
by
the
paiens
&
that
his
bones
were
burned
by
them
&
the
ashes
esparssed
in
the
aire
.
Albeit
that
Eusebe
addeth
,
that
certeyn
men
of
Ierusalem
chaunsed
to
come
thither
,
&
secrettly
toke
some
litel
part
,
which
was
caried
to
Antioche
&
ther
buried
.
As
concerning
his
head
,
Sozomenus
an
other
cronicler
saith
,
that
it
was
caried
away
by
Theodose
the
emperor
,
neare
to
the
citie
of
constantinoble
.
Wherefore
according
to
the
ancient
histories
al
the
whole
body
was
burned
except
the
head
:
&
al
the
bones
&
the
ashes
lost
,
except
som
certen
litel
portion
which
the
hermites
of
Ierusalem
stale
from
thense
let
vs
se
what
is
now
found
.
They
of
Amiens
boste
themselues
to
haue
the
visage
and
in
the
maske
which
they
shewe
,
there
is
the
signe
of
the
cut
of
a
knife
ouerthwart
the
eye
,
which
they
say
Herodias
gaue
him
.
But
they
of
S.
Iohn
of
Angel
say
there
agaynst
,
and
doe
showe
the
like
parte
.
As
concerning
the
rest
of
the
head
from
the
crowne
to
the
forehead
was
at
Rhodes
:
and
is
nowe
at
Malte
as
I
thinke
.
At
the
least
they
haue
made
men
beleue
that
the
Turke
did
render
it
them
.
The
hinder
parte
is
at
S.
Iohn
of
Nemours
:
the
braine
is
at
Noyon
.
Besides
all
this
,
they
of
S.
Iohn
of
Morien
doe
not
wante
some
certayne
parte
of
the
head
:
his
chawes
are
sene
at
Besanson
at
sainct
Iohn
the
great
:
there
is
another
part
at
S.
Iohn
of
Latrans
at
Paris
,
and
at
S.
Flour
in
Auuergne
.
Thei
kepe
his
heare
at
sainct
Sauiours
in
Spaine
,
the
brow
and
some
of
the
heare
:
There
is
also
some
lytle
iote
thereof
at
Noyon
,
which
is
showen
very
autentikly
.
There
is
also
some
part
(
I
knowe
not
of
what
place
)
at
sainct
Lukes
.
Is
al
this
done
?
Let
one
goe
to
Rome
,
and
to
the
monestary
of
saint
Siluester
,
and
one
shall
heare
besides
sayde
:
beholde
here
is
sainct
Iohn
Baptistes
head
.
The
Poetes
fain
that
there
was
in
tyme
passed
a
king
in
Spaine
,
named
Gereon
,
who
had
three
heades
.
If
our
relique
forgers
coulde
saye
as
much
of
sainct
Iohn
Baptist
,
this
wold
serue
well
for
their
purpose
,
to
helpe
them
to
lye
.
But
seing
thys
fable
hath
no
place
,
how
wyl
they
excuse
them selues
?
I
wyll
not
presse
them
so
neare
,
as
for
to
aske
them
howe
the
head
was
so
hacked
,
for
to
be
parted
in
so
manye
places
,
and
so
diuerslye
:
neyther
howe
they
haue
gotten
the
same
from
Constantinople
:
but
I
onely
saye
,
that
sainct
Iohn
must
nedes
be
a
monster
,
or
that
they
be
vnshame
fast
abusers
,
for
to
shewe
so
many
peeces
of
his
head
.
And
which
is
more
they
of
Sene
boste
to
haue
his
arme
the
which
is
repugnant
to
all
the
auncient
histories
.
And
yet
neuerthelesse
this
abuse
is
not
only
suffered
but
also
approued
as
in
dede
nothinge
is
founde
euel
to
the
kingdome
of
Antichriste
prouiding
that
it
intertaine
the
people
in
superstition
.
Nowe
they
haue
inuented
an
other
fable
that
is
,
when
al
the
body
was
burned
that
the
finger
wherewith
he
dyd
pointe
and
shewe
our
Lord
Iesus
dide
remayne
hole
not
beyng
consumed
.
This
,
not
only
,
is
not
conformable
to
the
auncient
histories
but
it
may
also
easely
be
reproued
by
them
for
Eusebe
,
&
Theodorite
plainly
say
that
the
body
(
when
the
payens
reueshed
it
)
was
alreadye
consemed
to
bones
.
And
they
would
in
no
wise
haue
forgotten
suche
a
miracle
if
their
had
bene
any
thing
at
all
for
they
are
but
ouermuche
curiousse
in
mencioninge
of
vaine
and
trifeling
thinges
.
Not
withstandinge
althoughe
it
hade
bene
so
,
yet
let
vs
heare
in
howe
manye
places
thys
fynger
is
.
There
is
one
at
Besanson
in
the
church
of
saint
Iohn
the
great
another
at
Lions
,
another
at
Burges
,
at
Florence
another
,
another
at
Saincte
Iohn
of
Aduentures
neare
to
Mascon
.
I
saye
nothyng
herevpon
except
that
I
praye
the
gentle
readers
not
to
harden
theyr
hartes
agaynst
such
a
cleare
and
certayne
aduertisement
,
and
that
they
woulde
not
shutte
theyr
eyes
,
to
suche
a
clearnesse
,
for
to
lette
them selues
always
to
be
deceiued
as
in
darknes
Yf
that
Iugglers
shoulde
haue
had
so
blynded
our
eyes
that
we
shoulde
thynke
that
there
was
syxe
,
yet
shoulde
we
bee
thus
mynded
for
to
feare
to
be
abused
and
deceyued
.
But
herein
is
no
subteltie
,
for
question
is
onely
made
wheather
we
wyl
beleue
that
Sainct
Iohns
fynger
is
at
Flourence
,
and
that
thei
be
also
other
where
in
fiue
places
,
as
at
Lyons
at
Burges
and
other
places
.
For
to
speake
more
brieflye
,
whether
we
will
beleue
that
sixe
fingers
are
but
one
,
and
that
one
finger
only
is
sixe
.
I
speake
but
onely
of
that
which
is
come
to
my
knowledge
.
I
dout
not
but
if
that
one
shoulde
enquire
more
diligentlye
,
there
shoulde
be
at
the
least
founde
one
half
dousen
more
in
other
places
.
And
that
their
shuld
not
be
found
yet
other
peeces
,
which
woulde
amounte
to
the
bignes
of
a
bulles
head
,
yea
besides
those
which
I
haue
named
.
But
for
feare
of
leauing
any
thyng
behind
,
thei
haue
likewise
bosted
to
haue
the
ashes
:
wherof
one
part
is
at
Gines
,
the
other
part
at
Rome
in
S.
Iohn
of
Latrans
church
:
Nowe
we
haue
sene
that
the
most
part
was
caste
into
the
aire
:
yet
neuerthelesse
they
let
not
to
haue
(
as
they
saye
)
a
great
part
and
chiefely
they
of
Genes.
There
remayneth
nowe
after
the
bodye
the
other
appertenances
,
as
one
of
his
showes
,
which
is
at
the
charter
house
of
Paris
:
the
whiche
was
stolne
aboute
twelue
or
thyrtyne
yeres
ago
:
but
there
was
a
newe
one
founde
incontinently
.
And
in
dede
vntyll
showmakers
science
fayle
,
they
wyll
neuer
wante
suche
reliques
.
At
Rome
at
sainct
Iohn
of
Latrans
,
they
boste
to
haue
his
iacketh
:
whereof
no
mencion
is
made
in
the
gospell
,
except
because
it
is
there
spoken
,
that
he
was
clothed
with
camelles
heare
,
they
woulde
chaunge
a
gowne
into
a
iacket
.
There
lykewise
they
saye
they
haue
the
Aultar
whereon
he
praied
in
the
Desarte
:
as
yf
in
those
dayes
they
dyd
vse
to
make
Aultars
for
euery
purpose
and
in
euery
place
.
It
is
meruayll
they
make
them
not
beleue
that
he
songe
Masse
.
In
Auignon
is
the
sworde
wherwith
he
was
beheaded
.
And
at
Aix
in
Dutchlande
is
the
lynnen
clothe
that
was
spreadde
vnder
hym
.
I
woulde
gladly
know
how
the
hangman
was
so
gracious
and
fauourable
,
as
for
to
tapistrie
the
pauement
of
the
prison
,
when
he
would
put
him
to
death
.
Is
not
this
a
folish
inuencion
?
But
yet
,
how
is
either
the
one
or
the
other
com
to
their
hands
?
do
you
thinke
it
to
be
likely
,
that
he
which
put
him
to
death
,
whether
he
were
a
souldiour
or
a
hangman
,
woulde
haue
geuen
away
the
linnen
cloth
and
his
sworde
for
to
make
reliques
of
them
?
Seing
they
woulde
make
suche
a
furniture
of
all
peeces
,
they
haue
fayled
in
leauing
&
forgettyng
Herodias
knife
,
wherwith
she
strake
him
vpon
the
eye
lidde
.
Likewise
all
the
bloud
that
was
spylt
,
and
also
his
sepulchre
.
But
I
maye
well
erre
herein
:
for
I
know
not
if
all
those
baggages
be
other
where
els
.
It
is
nowe
requisite
that
the
Apostles
shoulde
haue
their
course
:
but
because
the
multitude
myghte
engender
confusion
,
if
I
shoulde
place
them
all
together
:
we
wyll
first
speake
of
sainct
Peter
and
sainct
Paule
,
then
after
we
wyll
speake
of
the
others
.
Theyr
bodyes
are
at
Rome
,
one
halfe
in
sainct
Peters
Churche
,
and
the
other
halfe
at
sainct
Paules
Church
:
And
they
saye
,
that
sainct
Siluester
did
parte
them
,
for
to
distribute
them
in
such
equall
porcions
.
Their
two
heades
are
at
Rome
at
Sainct
Iohn
of
Latrans
:
although
in
the
same
churche
there
is
one
of
sayncte
Peters
teeth
alone
by
it selfe
.
Besydes
al
thys
,
they
doe
not
lette
to
haue
euerye
where
theyr
bones
.
As
at
Poiters
they
haue
the
chawe
bone
with
the
beard
.
At
Trier
diuers
bones
bothe
of
the
one
and
of
the
other
:
At
Argenton
in
Bery
one
of
saint
Paules
shoulders
.
But
when
shoulde
this
be
ended
?
For
in
euerye
place
wheare
there
is
a
Churche
that
dothe
beare
theyr
names
,
there
are
also
of
their
reliques
.
If
one
doe
aske
what
relikes
?
Let
them
remember
the
brayne
of
sainct
Peter
,
whereof
I
haue
spoken
,
whyche
was
on
the
greate
Aultar
of
thys
towne
.
For
euen
as
that
was
founde
to
be
a
marble
stone
,
so
shall
men
finde
many
horse
bones
or
dogge
bones
,
that
they
do
attribute
to
these
two
apostles
.
With
the
body
there
foloweth
the
other
appertenaunce
.
At
sainct
Sauiours
in
Spaine
they
haue
one
of
sainct
Peters
slippers
but
of
the
fashion
,
and
the
thing
whereof
it
is
made
,
I
can
make
no
mencion
,
but
it
is
to
be
supposed
that
it
is
such
like
marchandise
as
that
which
is
at
Poiters
:
The
whiche
are
made
of
Satynne
brodered
wyth
golde
.
Beholde
howe
braue
they
do
make
him
after
his
death
,
for
to
recompense
him
of
the
pouertie
wherein
he
liued
durynge
his
lyfe
tyme
.
Because
the
bishops
in
these
dayes
are
so
trim
,
when
thei
decke
them
with
their
pontifical
robes
.
It
semeth
to
them
that
one
shuld
abrogate
the
apostles
dignitie
,
yf
he
did
not
make
them
as
trim
,
for
painters
maye
well
counterfaite
them
at
their
pleasure
,
gyldyng
and
adorning
them
from
the
head
to
the
fete
,
and
afterward
put
vpon
them
the
names
of
Peter
and
Paule
:
but
we
knowe
what
their
estate
was
whilest
thei
lyued
in
this
world
,
and
that
they
had
no
other
then
poore
mennes
clothing
.
There
is
also
at
Rome
the
pontificall
chere
of
sainct
Peter
with
his
coope
.
As
if
in
those
dayes
the
bishops
had
had
thrones
for
to
sytte
in
:
their
office
was
to
teache
councell
,
and
exhorte
bothe
publiklye
and
peculierly
,
and
to
shewe
good
example
of
true
humilitie
to
their
flocke
:
and
not
to
make
ydolles
,
as
those
that
are
now
a
dayes
do
.
As
concerning
his
cope
,
it
was
not
yet
in
those
dayes
the
fashion
or
maner
so
to
disguyse
them selues
:
for
they
did
not
playe
the
kynde
of
Maskers
in
the
Churche
as
they
do
at
this
present
.
So
that
for
to
proue
that
saynct
Peter
had
a
cope
,
it
is
fyrst
requisite
that
they
shoulde
declare
S.
Peter
to
be
a
Iugler
,
as
our
priestes
nowe
a
dayes
doe
,
semyng
to
serue
God
.
It
is
trewe
that
they
maye
well
haue
geuen
him
a
cope
when
thei
assigned
him
an
aulter
.
But
as
lykelye
is
the
one
as
the
other
.
Men
do
knowe
what
Masses
were
songe
at
that
tyme
.
The
Apostles
dyd
celebrate
simplye
in
their
tyme
the
supper
of
our
Lorde
:
to
the
which
,
it
is
not
nedefull
to
haue
an
aulter
.
They
did
not
knowe
yet
at
that
tyme
what
beast
this
Masse
was
:
Neyther
was
it
knowen
longe
tyme
after
.
One
maye
euidentlye
see
then
that
when
they
inuented
their
reliques
they
neuer
douted
that
euer
they
should
haue
any
speakers
there
against
,
seyng
they
haue
ben
bolde
to
lye
so
impudently
&
wantonly
.
Moreouer
as
touching
this
aulter
they
agre
not
among
them selues
:
For
they
of
Rome
affirme
that
they
haue
it
,
and
thei
of
Pise
likewise
say
thei
haue
it
,
shewing
it
also
in
theyr
subburbes
,
that
stande
towardes
the
sea
.
For
to
make
theyr
profit
of
all
,
they
haue
not
forgotten
the
sworde
wherewith
Maulchus
eare
was
cut
of
:
as
if
it
had
bene
a
Iewell
worthy
to
be
made
a
relique
.
I
had
forgotten
his
Croisier
the
which
is
shewen
at
sainct
Steuen
of
Grees
at
Paris
:
of
the
which
is
to
be
estemed
as
much
as
of
the
aulter
,
or
of
the
cope
:
for
it
standeth
wyth
lyke
reason
.
There
is
a
lytell
more
apperraunce
of
his
weapon
.
For
it
may
well
be
presuppossed
or
thought
that
he
myght
(
goynge
by
the
fyeldes
)
be
armed
with
suche
a
staffe
.
But
thei
marre
all
,
in
that
they
can
not
agree
:
For
they
of
Cologne
fermeli
maintaine
that
they
haue
it
,
&
likewise
they
of
Tryer
:
so
in
beliyng
the
one
the
other
,
thei
geue
good
occasion
that
one
shuld
beleue
neither
of
them
both
.
I
leaue
to
speake
of
sainct
paulles
chaine
,
wherwith
he
was
bound
,
the
which
is
shewen
at
Rome
in
his
church
.
Item
,
of
the
peller
,
wheron
sainct
peter
was
marterede
,
the
which
is
at
sainct
Anastase
.
I
leaue
only
to
the
readers
to
Iudge
.
From
whence
this
chaine
was
gotten
,
for
to
be
made
a
relique
:
Item
,
to
wit
if
in
those
daies
the
maner
were
to
put
men
to
death
vpon
pillers
.
We
will
Ioyntly
intreate
of
all
the
other
Apostles
for
to
make
an
ende
the
sonner
.
And
first
of
al
we
will
rehearse
where
there
is
holle
bodyes
,
to
the
ende
that
in
conferring
the
one
to
the
other
,
one
may
iudge
what
sure
holde
may
be
taken
of
their
sayinges
.
Euery
one
dothe
knowe
that
the
towne
of
Thoulouse
thinketh
to
haue
the
syxt
:
to
wit
,
sainct
Iames
the
greater
,
sainct
Andrew
,
sainct
Iames
lesser
,
sainct
Philippe
,
sainct
Simon
and
sainct
Iude.
At
padue
is
sainct
mathias
body
,
at
Salerne
sainct
Matthewes
bodi
at
Ortone
sainct
Thomas
body
,
in
the
kingdom
of
Naples
,
S.
Barthelmews
bodye
.
Let
vs
nowe
marke
whiche
of
them
haue
two
,
or
thre
,
bodyes
Sainct
Andrewe
hath
a
second
body
at
Melphe
:
sainct
Philipe
,
and
sainct
Iames
the
lesser
,
eache
of
them
also
an
other
body
at
Rome
in
sainct
Peters
Churche
:
saincte
Barthelmew
also
another
at
Rone
in
hys
Churche
.
And
yet
aboue
all
this
,
the
skinne
of
sainct
Barthelmew
is
at
Pise
.
Notwithstandinge
sainct
Mathias
is
aboue
all
the
others
:
For
he
hath
a
seconde
bodye
at
Rome
,
in
the
Churche
of
sainct
Marye
the
greater
,
and
a
thirde
bodye
at
Trier
.
Besydes
this
,
he
hath
a
head
and
an
arme
,
aparte
likewise
at
Rome
.
It
is
trew
that
the
lightell
peices
of
S.
Andrewe
,
which
are
heare
,
and
there
,
If
they
were
put
together
behalfe
as
muche
:
for
at
Rome
in
sainct
peters
Churche
,
there
is
a
head
,
in
sainct
Grisogone
a
shoulder
,
at
sainct
Eustacea
side
,
at
the
holy
ghosts
church
an
arme
,
I
can
not
tel
what
other
part
at
Blaise
at
Aix
in
prouince
a
fote
.
Whosoeuer
shoulde
ioyne
these
together
it
woulde
be
inough
for
to
make
two
whole
quarters
,
prouidynge
that
one
could
wel
proportion
them
Now
as
S.
Bartelmewes
skinne
is
at
Pise
,
so
is
one
of
his
handes
there
:
At
Trier
there
is
I
knowe
not
what
membre
,
at
Freius
a
finger
,
at
Rome
in
sainct
Barbares
church
,
other
reliques
.
So
yet
he
is
not
one
of
the
poorest
,
for
the
others
haue
not
so
muche
:
Albeit
that
euerye
one
hath
yet
some
lytle
parte
.
As
Sayncte
Phylyppe
hathe
a
foote
at
Rome
,
at
the
holye
Apostles
,
and
at
Saynct
Barbares
I
can
not
name
what
reliques
.
Item
more
at
Trier
.
In
these
two
last
Churches
he
hath
Sainct
Iames
for
his
companion
.
Who
hath
likewyse
in
sainct
Peters
church
his
head
,
and
an
arme
at
Sainct
Grisogone
,
another
at
the
holye
Apostles
.
Sainct
Mathewe
and
Saynct
Thomas
haue
remayned
the
moste
poorest
.
For
the
fyrste
wyth
his
bodye
hath
but
onely
certayne
bones
at
Trier
,
an
arme
at
Rome
,
at
sainct
Marcell
,
and
at
saynct
Nicolas
a
head
.
Vnlesse
peraduenture
some
thynge
haue
escaped
me
,
whych
maye
well
be
done
,
for
in
suche
a
darkenesse
who
shall
not
be
confused
?
Because
they
fynde
in
their
Chronicles
that
the
body
of
sainct
Iohn
the
Euangelist
dyd
vanishe
away
incontinently
after
it
was
putte
in
the
Graue
:
They
coulde
not
brynge
forthe
anye
of
hys
bones
.
But
for
the
supplyinge
of
thys
want
,
they
cast
themselues
vpon
his
baggage
.
And
fyrste
of
all
,
they
haue
bene
aduised
of
the
Chalice
,
in
whiche
he
drancke
the
Poyson
,
beynge
condempned
by
Domician
.
But
for
asmuche
as
two
wyll
haue
it
,
either
we
must
beleue
that
which
the
alchumistes
saye
of
their
multiplication
:
or
that
these
with
their
chalice
,
haue
mocked
the
worlde
.
The
one
is
at
Bullin
,
and
the
other
at
Rome
at
sainct
Iohn
of
Latran
.
They
haue
afterwardes
inuented
to
haue
founde
his
Iacket
,
and
the
chaine
wherewith
he
was
bound
when
thei
led
him
prisoner
from
Ephesus
:
with
the
oratorye
wherein
he
accustomed
to
praye
being
in
prison
.
I
woulde
gladlye
know
if
there
were
at
that
tyme
,
hired
Ioiners
for
to
make
him
oratories
.
Item
what
familiaritie
or
acquaintance
the
christians
had
with
his
kepers
for
to
withdrawe
the
chaine
for
to
make
it
a
relique
.
These
mockeries
are
ouer
muche
folishe
,
yea
if
thei
were
to
deceyue
litle
children
with
.
But
the
moste
estemed
iewell
is
the
twelue
comes
of
the
apostles
,
which
thei
do
shew
at
our
lady
of
the
yle
neare
Lions
I
thinke
thei
were
placed
there
at
the
beginning
,
for
to
make
men
beleue
that
they
were
the
comes
of
the
.xii.
fathers
of
Fraunce
:
but
since
their
dignitie
hath
increased
and
they
are
become
apostolicke
.
We
must
from
henceforth
hasten
or
otherwise
we
shoulde
neuer
go
out
of
this
forest
.
We
wyll
then
brieflye
recite
the
reliques
that
they
haue
of
the
sainctes
,
which
were
in
the
time
that
Iesus
Christ
liued
:
then
consequentlye
of
the
auncient
martirs
,
and
of
other
sainctes
.
Herevpon
the
reader
shal
haue
occasion
to
iudge
what
estimacion
they
oughte
to
haue
.
Sainct
Anne
mother
of
the
virgin
Mary
hath
one
of
her
bodies
at
Apte
in
Prouince
the
other
at
our
lady
of
the
yle
at
Lions
.
Besides
this
she
hath
one
head
at
Trier
:
the
other
at
Turen
,
another
at
Turinge
in
a
towne
named
after
her
name
.
I
leaue
the
pieces
which
ar
in
more
then
a
hundred
places
:
and
amongest
all
others
I
remembre
that
I
haue
kist
one
part
in
the
abbey
of
Orcaps
neare
Noyon
where
they
make
great
feastyng
.
Finally
she
hath
one
of
her
armes
at
Rome
in
sainct
Paules
churche
.
Let
them
proue
the
foundacion
therof
if
they
can
.
There
foloweth
after
Lazarus
and
Magdeline
his
sister
.
As
touching
him
,
he
hath
as
farre
as
I
know
but
thre
bodies
,
one
is
at
Mersels
,
the
other
at
Authum
,
the
thyrd
at
Aualon
.
It
is
true
that
they
of
Authum
haue
had
great
proces
against
them
of
Aualon
.
But
after
that
bothe
parties
had
spent
much
money
,
thei
haue
both
of
them
won
their
cause
:
at
the
least
they
remaine
in
possession
of
the
title
.
For
asmuch
as
Magdeline
was
a
woman
,
it
behoued
that
she
should
be
inferiour
to
her
brother
:
therfore
she
hath
had
but
two
bodies
,
whereof
the
one
is
at
Vesele
nere
Auserre
:
and
the
other
which
is
of
greater
renome
,
at
S.
Maximins
in
Prouince
:
There
where
the
head
is
a
part
,
with
her
noli
me
tangere
,
whiche
is
a
piece
of
waxe
,
which
some
doe
thynke
to
be
the
marke
that
Iesus
Christ
gaue
her
in
despit
because
he
was
sory
that
she
woulde
touch
him
.
I
make
no
mencion
of
the
reliques
that
are
disparsed
throughout
the
worlde
,
aswel
of
her
bones
as
of
her
here
:
he
that
wil
haue
the
truth
of
this
,
he
should
fyrst
of
all
enquire
,
to
wit
,
if
that
Lazarus
&
his
two
sisters
,
Martha
,
and
Magdeline
,
were
euer
comme
into
Fraunce
for
to
preache
.
For
in
readynge
the
auncient
histories
,
and
in
iudgynge
of
the
whole
matter
wyth
reason
,
one
maye
euidentlye
see
that
it
is
the
moste
folyshe
fable
of
the
worlde
:
and
the
which
hath
as
muche
appearaunce
,
as
yf
one
dyd
saye
the
cloudes
are
Calue
skynnes
:
And
neuertheles
these
are
the
moste
certaynest
Reliques
that
they
haue
.
But
yet
yf
it
hadde
bene
so
,
it
myght
haue
suffised
to
abuse
a
bodye
to
Idolatrye
,
wythout
makynge
of
one
Deuyll
two
or
thre
.
Thei
haue
also
canonised
him
who
perased
the
side
of
oure
lorde
Iesus
on
the
crosse
,
and
they
haue
called
him
sainct
Longes
after
hauing
so
baptised
him
they
haue
geuen
him
two
bodyes
,
whereof
the
one
is
at
Mantone
,
and
the
other
at
our
lady
of
the
ile
nere
lions
.
Thei
haue
done
the
like
of
the
wysmen
which
came
to
worshipe
our
lord
Iesus
after
his
natiuitie
.
And
first
they
haue
determined
of
the
number
,
sayng
,
that
they
were
but
thre
.
The
Gospell
maketh
no
mention
how
many
they
were
:
and
certain
auncient
doctours
haue
said
,
that
they
were
fourtene
:
as
he
which
wrote
the
imperfect
commentarie
vpon
sainct
Matthewe
,
which
some
doth
Intitle
of
Chrysostome
moreouer
in
stead
wher
as
the
Gospel
nameth
them
philosophers
,
they
haue
made
them
.
Kinges
in
haste
with
ought
Countrye
and
subiectes
.
Finally
they
haue
baptisede
them
naming
the
one
Balthasor
,
the
other
Melchior
,
and
the
other
Gaspar
.
Now
although
we
did
graunt
all
their
fables
,
so
friuolous
and
fonde
as
they
are
,
it
is
certain
that
the
wise
men
retournede
into
the
easte
countrye
.
For
the
holye
scripture
so
sayeth
,
and
one
can
not
saye
anye
other
wise
,
but
that
thei
died
there
.
Who
is
it
that
hathe
caried
them
awaye
sinse
?
And
who
is
it
that
knew
them
,
for
to
marke
them
to
the
ende
to
make
reliques
in
such
sort
of
their
bodyes
?
but
I
leaue
it
to
Iudge
forsomuch
as
it
shoulde
be
but
folishelye
done
of
me
for
to
redargue
so
euident
mockeries
.
I
only
say
,
that
they
of
Colongne
,
&
they
of
Milline
,
must
fight
which
of
the
two
shal
haue
them
for
they
both
pretende
to
haue
them
:
The
which
can
not
be
,
whan
their
proces
shall
be
void
,
&
finished
,
then
will
we
auise
,
what
shall
be
beast
to
be
done
.
Amongest
the
auncient
Marters
,
sainct
denis
is
the
most
estemed
for
some
do
take
him
for
one
of
the
Apostles
disciples
,
and
the
first
Euangeliste
of
fraunce
.
Because
of
this
his
dignity
they
haue
of
his
reliques
in
diuersse
places
.
Neuertheles
,
as
thei
say
,
the
body
remaineth
hole
but
onli
in
two
places
:
at
sainct
Denis
in
fraunce
and
at
Regesbourge
in
doucheland
.
Because
the
French
men
maintained
to
haue
him
they
of
Regesbourge
dyde
make
their
proces
at
Rome
.
It
is
neare
an
hundrethe
years
a
goe
,
&
the
body
was
graunted
them
by
diffinitiall
sentence
,
the
frenche
Embassadour
beyng
present
,
whereof
they
haue
a
fayned
Bulle
.
Who
so
shall
saye
at
sainct
denys
nere
Paris
,
that
the
body
is
not
there
,
he
shall
be
stonned
,
whosoeuer
contrariwise
shall
say
that
it
is
not
at
Regesbourge
,
shall
be
helde
for
an
Heritike
for
asmuch
as
he
should
be
rebellious
to
the
holy
sea
Apostolike
.
So
,
it
shall
be
most
expedient
,
to
make
nor
medell
with
theyr
quereles
.
Let
them
put
out
the
one
the
others
eies
if
thei
wil
&
in
so
doing
thei
shal
win
nothing
at
all
,
except
to
discouer
that
their
whole
matter
consisteth
in
liyng
.
They
haue
in
such
sort
parted
the
bodi
of
S
Steuen
that
it
is
hole
at
Rome
in
his
church
.
His
head
in
Arles
,
&
of
his
bones
in
more
thence
.
places
.
But
for
to
shew
themselues
to
be
the
adherents
&
successors
of
them
that
murdred
them
,
thei
haue
canonised
the
stones
wherewith
he
was
stoned
:
one
might
aske
where
thei
found
them
,
&
out
of
whose
hands
&
by
what
meanes
thei
haue
gotten
them
I
briefly
answere
that
this
question
is
folish
for
men
do
wel
know
that
stones
may
be
found
euery
where
,
so
that
the
cariage
of
them
shal
cost
litle
or
nothing
:
thei
do
shew
them
at
Florence
,
in
Arles
at
the
Augustins
,
at
Alman
in
Langedoc
.
He
that
wil
shut
his
eies
&
his
understanding
wil
beleue
that
thei
ar
the
self
same
stones
wherwith
s
.
Steuen
was
stoned
.
He
contrariwise
that
wil
a
litle
consider
,
wil
mock
at
them
:
&
in
dede
the
carmes
of
poiters
haue
found
one
within
this
.xiiii.
yeres
to
the
which
thei
haue
assignd
the
office
to
deliuer
women
of
childbed
:
the
Iacobins
from
whom
they
had
stolne
one
of
sainct
Margarites
sides
seruing
to
this
vse
,
haue
made
great
bruite
,
criyng
agaynst
their
abuse
,
but
in
the
ende
thei
wan
in
keping
good
holde
.
I
had
almost
determined
to
speake
nothing
of
the
Innocents
,
because
that
when
I
shuld
haue
gathered
an
army
,
thei
would
styll
allege
that
this
dothe
not
disagre
to
the
historie
,
because
that
the
numbre
is
not
prescribed
,
I
leaue
therfore
to
speake
of
the
multitude
.
It
suffiseth
that
one
note
that
there
is
of
them
in
al
the
regions
of
the
worlde
.
I
now
aske
how
it
is
that
they
haue
found
their
sepulchres
so
long
time
after
,
seing
that
they
were
not
counted
for
saincts
when
Herode
put
them
to
death
:
Moreouer
when
it
was
that
they
were
caried
away
.
Thei
can
answer
me
no
other
thing
vnlesse
that
it
was
fiue
or
sixe
hundred
yeares
after
their
death
.
I
importe
me
to
the
moste
simplest
idiots
what
a
man
may
fynde
,
yf
one
should
beleue
so
absurde
things
,
put
the
case
yet
yf
perchaunce
there
had
certain
bene
founde
,
yet
howe
coulde
it
be
that
thei
could
cary
diuers
bodies
into
Fraunce
,
Dutchland
,
and
Italy
,
for
to
distribut
them
in
townes
so
farre
of
the
one
from
the
other
?
I
leaue
them
this
falshead
as
altother
conuicted
.
For
asmuch
as
sainct
Laurence
is
of
the
number
of
the
auncient
Martyrs
,
we
wyll
here
geue
him
his
place
.
I
knowe
not
whether
his
body
be
in
any
more
then
one
place
,
to
wit
,
at
Rome
in
the
church
named
after
his
name
.
It
is
true
that
there
is
beside
a
vessel
of
his
flesh
broyled
.
Item
two
viols
ful
,
the
one
of
his
blood
,
and
the
other
of
his
grese
.
Item
there
is
in
the
church
surnamed
Palisperne
his
arme
and
certain
of
his
bones
:
&
at
sainct
Siluester
other
reliques
.
But
if
one
would
gather
all
the
bones
together
which
are
onely
in
Fraunce
:
there
would
be
sufficient
for
to
make
whole
large
bodies
.
There
foloweth
after
the
Griderne
I
could
well
let
it
passe
:
but
they
haue
other
more
notable
thynges
,
of
the
whiche
it
is
not
lawfull
for
me
to
holde
my
peace
.
As
coles
whiche
they
do
shewe
at
sainct
Eustace
.
Item
a
napkyn
,
wherewith
the
angell
wyped
hys
bodye
.
Seing
they
haue
taken
the
leasure
to
dreame
such
inuencions
to
deceyue
the
world
,
let
them
also
that
shall
see
this
aduertisment
take
the
leasure
to
thinke
&
iudge
of
them
,
for
to
kepe
them selues
from
being
anye
more
disceyued
,
and
mocked
.
Out
of
the
like
forge
is
come
his
coope
,
which
they
do
show
at
Rome
in
sainct
Barbares
church
:
because
thei
haue
hard
say
that
S.
Laurence
was
a
decon
,
thei
thought
it
mete
that
he
shuld
haue
the
like
garments
as
their
decons
haue
,
disguising
their
bodies
in
playing
at
the
masse
.
But
it
was
another
maner
of
office
in
those
daies
in
the
christian
church
,
then
is
now
at
this
present
in
the
Papistrie
.
Thei
were
those
that
wer
appointed
or
chosen
to
distribute
the
almes
,
and
not
to
playe
Iugglers
feats
.
So
thei
had
no
nede
nether
of
sirplices
caps
,
tippets
nor
other
folishe
clothes
for
to
disguise
them selues
with
.
We
wyll
adde
to
S.
Laurence
S.
Geruais
and
S.
Protais
:
whose
sepulchres
wer
found
at
Milan
in
S.
Ambrose
time
,
as
he
himself
testifieth
.
Likwise
also
S.
Hierom
,
S.
Augustine
&
many
others
.
And
so
the
towne
of
Millan
maintaineth
that
she
hath
yet
the
bodies
besides
this
not withstanding
thei
ar
at
Brisac
in
Duchland
,
&
at
Besanson
in
S.
Peters
church
:
besides
other
infinite
pieces
which
are
dispersed
in
diuers
churchs
:
so
that
it
must
nedes
be
that
eueri
one
of
them
had
.iiii.
bodies
at
the
least
,
or
els
the
one
do
cast
al
the
bones
that
ar
shewed
by
false
signes
&
tokens
into
the
fieldes
.
Forsomuch
as
thei
haue
geuen
S.
Sebastian
the
office
of
healing
the
plague
this
hath
bene
the
cause
that
he
hath
ben
more
required
,
&
that
men
haue
ben
more
desirous
to
haue
him
This
credit
and
office
hath
made
hym
to
be
multiplied
into
foure
whole
bodies
:
whereof
one
is
at
Rome
at
S.
Laurence
church
,
the
other
at
Soison
,
the
third
at
Pillignie
neare
Nantes
,
the
fourthe
neare
Narboune
,
in
the
place
where
he
was
borne
.
Besides
he
hath
two
heades
:
the
one
at
sainct
Peters
in
Rome
,
&
the
other
at
the
Iacobines
of
Thoulouse
.
It
is
true
,
they
are
but
emptye
sculles
,
if
one
haue
regarde
to
the
Graye
freres
of
Angiers
who
saye
they
haue
the
braine
.
Item
the
Iacobines
of
Angiers
haue
an
arme
,
and
thei
of
sainct
Seruin
of
Thoulouse
another
,
another
likewise
at
the
case
god
of
Auergne
,
and
another
at
Mombrison
in
the
forest
,
besides
the
smale
litle
pieces
that
are
in
many
other
churches
.
But
when
one
shall
haue
well
weyed
the
matter
,
then
let
one
iudge
where
sainct
Sebastians
body
is
.
But
they
haue
not
bene
satisfied
with
all
this
,
but
they
muste
also
make
reliques
of
the
arrowes
wherwith
he
was
shotten
:
whereof
they
shew
one
at
Lambest
in
prouince
an
other
at
Poiters
at
the
Augustins
,
and
the
others
here
&
there
.
By
this
men
mai
euidently
se
that
thei
thought
neuer
to
make
account
of
their
deceites
.
A
like
reason
hath
auailed
to
S.
Anthony
for
the
multipliyng
of
his
reliques
:
for
because
that
he
is
a
colerick
and
dangerous
sainct
,
as
thei
fain
him
,
who
doth
burne
whom
soeuer
he
is
angrie
with
:
by
this
opinion
he
makes
him self
to
be
feared
and
douted
.
The
fear
hath
engendred
deuotion
,
the
which
hath
sharpened
the
appetite
,
for
to
make
his
body
to
be
more
desired
because
of
the
profit
.
Wherfore
the
towne
of
Arles
hath
had
great
&
long
combat
against
the
Antoniens
of
Venis
:
but
the
issue
&
ende
therof
was
no
other
then
hath
bene
accustomed
to
be
in
such
a
matter
.
To
wit
,
al
remaineth
stil
in
confusion
.
For
if
a
man
would
haue
tried
out
the
truth
,
neither
of
the
parties
shoulde
haue
any
good
cause
.
Wyth
these
two
bodyes
there
is
a
kne
at
the
Augustines
of
Albi
:
there
is
at
Burge
at
Mascon
,
at
Dion
,
at
Chalous
,
at
Ourour
,
at
Besanson
,
reliques
of
diuers
membres
:
besides
that
which
the
abusers
cary
from
countrey
to
countrey
,
which
is
no
small
quantitie
.
Behold
what
a
thing
it
is
to
haue
an
ill
name
:
for
with
out
thys
,
the
good
S.
shuld
haue
remayned
in
his
graue
,
or
in
some
certain
corner
without
any
speaking
of
him
at
all
.
I
had
forgotten
S.
Petronel
the
doughter
of
sainct
Peter
,
who
hath
her
body
whole
at
Rome
in
her
fathers
church
:
Item
more
reliques
besides
at
sainct
Barbares
.
But
yet
neuertheles
she
wanteth
not
therefore
to
haue
another
bodye
at
Maus
,
in
the
Iacobines
couent
:
the
which
is
ther
had
in
greate
solemnitie
,
because
it
doth
heale
agues
.
For
so
muche
as
there
hath
bene
diuers
sayncts
named
Susan
,
I
cannot
wel
tel
if
their
intention
haue
bene
to
attribute
two
bodies
to
one
.
But
yet
is
it
that
S.
Susan
hath
one
bodye
at
Rome
in
the
church
called
after
her
name
,
and
another
at
Thoulouse
.
Sainct
Helene
hath
not
bene
so
happy
:
for
besides
her
body
that
is
at
Venise
,
she
hath
wonne
no
more
,
then
one
head
only
,
the
which
is
at
sainct
Gerion
of
Colongne
.
Sainct
Vrsulye
hath
surmonted
her
herein
:
for
first
her
bodye
is
at
sainct
Iohn
of
Angell
:
she
hath
moreouer
a
heade
at
Cologne
,
one
portion
at
the
Iacobins
of
Maus
,
another
at
the
Iacobines
of
Tours
the
other
at
Bergerate
.
As
concerning
the
companye
,
which
men
doe
call
the
eleuen
thousande
virgins
,
they
maye
well
haue
of
them
euery
where
.
And
in
dede
,
they
haue
bene
much
boldned
herby
,
for
to
lye
more
largely
and
liberaly
.
For
besides
an
an
hundred
cartesful
of
bones
,
that
are
at
Cologne
,
ther
is
scarsly
no
towne
in
al
Europa
,
which
ar
not
furnished
therwith
,
either
in
one
church
or
many
.
If
I
shuld
begin
to
entreat
of
the
comon
sort
of
saincts
,
I
shuld
enter
into
a
forest
,
wheras
I
shuld
neuer
find
way
to
go
out
:
wherefore
I
wyll
alledge
certain
examples
in
bypassing
wherby
one
may
easly
iudge
of
al
the
rest
.
At
Poiters
there
are
two
churches
which
ar
at
varience
for
S.
Hilaries
bodye
:
to
wit
,
the
Chanons
of
hys
church
,
and
the
monkes
of
Selle
.
The
debate
or
proces
remaineth
,
vntill
visitation
be
made
.
In
the
mean
time
the
Idolaters
shal
be
constrayned
to
worshippe
two
bodyes
of
one
man
:
the
faithfull
shall
leaue
the
body
at
rest
,
where
as
it
is
,
not
caring
for
it
.
As
concerning
sainct
Honorat
his
body
is
at
Arles
,
and
also
likewise
at
the
yle
of
Lyrens
,
near
Antibon
.
Sainct
Giles
hath
one
of
hys
bodies
at
Thoulouse
,
&
another
at
a
towne
of
Langedoc
,
which
beareth
his
name
.
Sainct
William
is
in
an
abbey
of
Langedoc
,
named
S.
William
of
the
wildernes
,
and
also
in
a
towne
of
Aussoy
,
named
Ecrichen
,
with
the
head
apart
:
albeit
that
he
hath
another
head
in
the
suburbe
of
Turen
in
Iulle
,
in
the
abbey
of
the
Guiliernites
.
What
shal
I
sai
of
S.
Saphorin
or
Simphorien
,
who
is
in
so
many
places
,
both
in
whole
bodies
&
in
bones
?
likwise
of
s
.
Woulfe
,
who
is
at
Asserre
at
Senes
,
at
Lion
,
and
also
some
did
make
men
beleue
that
he
was
at
Geneue
.
Asmuch
of
sainct
Ferreoll
,
who
is
altogether
whole
at
Vze
in
Langedoc
,
and
at
Brinde
in
Auergne
.
At
the
leaste
it
is
nedeful
they
shoulde
consult
together
for
some
good
remedye
,
that
their
lyes
maye
not
be
so
much
discouered
:
as
the
Chanons
of
Trier
haue
done
with
them
of
Lieg
,
touchyng
the
head
of
sainct
Lambert
:
for
they
haue
geuen
a
certaine
summe
of
money
,
for
the
interest
of
the
offerings
,
to
the
ende
they
should
not
publikly
shew
them
for
feare
least
men
should
be
astonished
to
see
them
in
two
townes
so
neare
together
.
But
it
is
as
I
haue
said
in
the
beginning
thei
haue
neuer
thoght
or
loked
for
to
haue
any
that
should
controle
them
,
who
durste
be
so
bolde
as
to
open
his
mouth
for
to
declare
and
shew
their
impudencie
.
One
might
aske
how
these
relique
Iugglers
,
seyng
that
they
haue
so
vainlye
&
curiously
imagined
al
that
hath
come
in
their
braines
,
and
in
blowyng
haue
forged
what
soeuer
hath
pleased
them
)
haue
left
behind
them
and
forgotten
the
notable
thinges
of
the
olde
testament
.
To
this
I
know
not
what
to
answer
,
but
that
thei
haue
despised
them
,
because
that
thei
hoped
for
no
great
profit
of
them
.
But
yet
they
haue
not
all
together
forgotten
them
:
for
at
Rome
at
S.
Maries
aboue
Minerue
,
they
saye
they
haue
the
bones
of
Abraham
,
Isac
,
and
Iacob
.
At
sainct
Iohn
of
Latrans
thei
boste
to
haue
the
arcke
of
the
couenant
,
with
Aarons
rodde
:
and
yet
neuerthelesse
,
this
rod
is
also
at
the
holy
chappell
of
Paris
,
and
they
of
Sayncte
Sauiours
in
Spayne
haue
a
certaine
piece
.
Moreouer
besides
this
thei
of
Burdeaur
affirme
that
the
rod
of
sainct
Mertial
,
which
is
shewed
ther
in
S.
Seuerins
church
,
is
the
self
same
of
Aaron
.
It
semeth
that
thei
woulde
haue
made
a
new
miracle
,
to
enuye
god
with
:
for
as
this
rod
was
turned
in
to
a
serpent
by
his
vertue
,
euen
so
nowe
thei
haue
conuerted
it
into
thre
rods
.
It
may
wel
be
that
thei
haue
many
other
monakles
of
the
olde
testament
:
but
this
wherof
we
haue
spoken
suffiseth
to
declare
that
they
haue
as
largely
delt
with
this
parte
as
with
al
the
rest
.
I
now
pray
thee
reader
to
be
mindfull
of
that
which
I
haue
saide
in
the
beginninge
.
That
is
,
that
I
haue
not
had
commissioners
for
to
visit
the
reliques
of
al
the
countreys
whiche
I
haue
here
before
mencioned
.
Wherefore
,
that
whiche
I
haue
said
must
not
be
taken
or
counted
,
as
a
ful
and
perfect
regester
or
inuentory
,
of
all
that
may
be
founde
.
For
I
haue
named
but
onelye
aboute
halfe
a
dousen
Townes
of
Doutchelande
.
I
haue
named
but
thre
of
Spaine
,
as
farre
as
I
know
.
Of
Italye
,
aboute
the
numbre
of
fyftene
.
Of
Fraunce
from
thyrtye
to
fourtye
:
And
yet
of
those
haue
I
not
spoken
,
all
that
is
to
be
sayde
in
that
behalfe
.
Let
euerye
one
then
coniecture
in
himself
what
a
heape
&
numbre
it
shuld
be
if
one
shuld
orderly
place
the
multitude
of
reliques
that
are
through
out
al
christendom
.
I
mean
only
the
countreys
that
we
know
,
&
where
as
we
vse
to
trauail
.
For
the
principal
is
to
note
that
all
the
reliques
that
they
do
shew
in
these
countreys
of
Iesus
Christ
,
and
of
the
prophetes
,
men
shal
find
them
aswel
in
Grecia
and
in
Asia
,
and
in
other
regions
where
as
there
are
Christian
churches
.
But
I
nowe
aske
,
that
seing
the
orientall
christian
churches
say
that
all
that
we
thinke
we
haue
here
with
vs
,
is
with
them
,
what
resolution
or
assurance
one
may
haue
thereof
?
If
one
shuld
contrary
them
alledging
that
such
a
sainctes
bodie
was
brought
away
by
marchantes
,
another
by
monks
,
another
by
a
bishop
:
one
part
of
the
crown
of
thornes
was
sent
to
a
king
of
Fraunce
,
by
the
emperour
of
Constantinoble
the
other
part
conquered
by
war
,
&
so
of
al
the
other
pieces
:
thei
would
nodde
and
lifte
their
heades
in
mockage
.
Howe
shall
one
auoyde
these
quarelles
?
For
in
a
doutfull
matter
it
is
requisite
to
Iudge
by
coniectures
.
Nowe
in
so
doyng
they
shoulde
alwayes
wynne
the
vpper
hand
:
for
that
which
thei
haue
to
sai
for
theyr
part
,
is
more
lyke
to
be
trewe
,
then
all
that
one
can
pretende
of
the
partie
on
this
side
.
It
is
a
troublesome
and
angry
matter
to
intermedel
for
them
that
woulde
defende
reliques
.
For
to
make
an
ende
,
I
pray
and
exhort
all
readers
in
the
name
of
God
to
employ
them selues
to
vnderstand
the
trueth
,
whilest
that
it
is
so
manifest
and
openly
shewed
them
,
&
acknowledge
that
this
is
done
by
a
singuler
prouidence
of
God
,
that
they
who
woulde
haue
in
suche
sorte
deceyued
the
poore
worlde
,
haue
bene
so
blynde
that
they
haue
not
considred
or
thoughte
howe
they
myght
haue
had
better
hid
and
couered
their
lies
but
as
the
Madianites
who
hauyng
their
eyes
pulled
out
,
were
at
strife
and
varience
the
one
agaynst
the
other
.
So
we
see
that
they
make
war
against
them selues
,
and
mutuallye
belye
the
one
the
others
.
Whosoeuer
wil
not
harden
th●●r
heartes
,
to
repugne
against
al
reason
,
and
truth
.
Albeit
that
he
be
not
fullye
instructed
or
persuaded
in
him self
,
that
it
is
execrable
Idolatrie
,
to
worshippe
any
kinde
of
relique
what
so
euer
it
be
:
yet
neuerthelesse
he
seing
so
euident
falsheade
,
shall
neuer
haue
the
heart
so
much
as
to
kisse
any
one
of
them
:
and
what
deuotion
so
euer
he
hath
had
to
them
before
,
it
shall
be
fullye
and
altogether
extinguished
.
The
principall
should
be
as
I
haue
sayd
in
the
beginning
to
abolishe
amongest
vs
christians
this
heathenly
superstition
,
of
canonising
the
reliques
,
aswell
of
Iesus
Christe
as
of
his
saincts
,
for
to
make
idols
.
This
kind
of
doinge
is
a
filthy
polution
the
which
ought
in
no
wise
to
be
suffered
in
the
church
.
We
haue
already
showed
by
what
reasons
,
and
witnesses
of
the
scripture
it
shuld
be
so
.
If
any
be
not
content
or
satisfied
therwith
,
let
him
consider
the
vse
of
the
auncient
fathers
,
to
the
end
to
confirme
him self
after
their
examples
.
There
hath
bene
many
holy
patriarches
,
many
prophetes
,
many
godly
kings
,
&
other
faithfull
in
the
old
testament
:
God
had
ordeyned
more
ceremonies
in
that
tyme
,
then
we
ought
to
haue
in
our
tyme
:
Yea
,
it
was
requisite
that
the
buriyng
places
shoulde
be
more
gorgeouslye
and
fairer
made
,
then
now
,
for
to
represent
by
figure
and
shadowe
the
glorious
resurrection
,
for
so
much
as
it
was
not
so
clerely
reueiled
by
word
as
we
haue
it
:
doe
we
read
that
they
haue
plucked
the
bodies
of
sainctes
out
of
their
sepulchres
for
to
make
puppies
of
them
?
Abraham
the
father
of
al
the
faithfull
,
was
he
euer
taken
vp
?
Sara
also
Princesse
in
the
Churche
of
GOD
,
hath
she
bene
taken
oute
of
her
graue
?
Haue
not
they
lefte
them
at
rest
with
all
the
other
saynctes
?
Moreouer
Moyses
bodye
,
was
not
it
hydde
by
the
wyll
of
God
,
so
that
men
could
neuer
finde
it
?
Hath
not
the
deuil
foughten
against
the
angels
as
sainct
Iude
saieth
?
Wherefore
is
it
that
the
lorde
hath
hyd
it
from
mans
sight
,
and
the
deuil
would
there
again
place
it
?
It
is
as
euery
one
doth
confesse
that
God
would
take
from
his
people
of
Israell
the
occasion
of
Idolatrie
:
The
deuil
on
the
contrary
part
would
establishe
it
.
But
some
will
say
the
people
of
Israel
were
inclined
to
superstition
.
I
aske
what
we
are
:
is
there
not
without
comparison
more
peruersitie
amongest
the
christians
concerning
this
matter
,
then
euer
was
amongest
the
Iewes
?
Let
vs
consyder
what
was
done
in
the
auncient
churche
:
I
graunt
you
the
faithfull
,
haue
alwayes
taken
paines
to
withdraw
the
bodies
of
Martyrs
,
for
that
they
should
not
be
eaten
of
dogges
,
or
beasts
,
or
byrdes
,
&
haue
honestly
buried
them
:
as
we
reade
both
of
S.
Iohn
Baptist
and
of
sainct
Steuen
.
But
this
was
done
for
to
bury
them
in
the
earth
,
for
to
leaue
them
there
vntyll
the
daye
of
the
resurrection
:
and
not
for
to
place
them
in
mans
syght
,
for
men
to
knele
before
them
.
This
wycked
pompe
of
canonisyng
them
was
neuer
broughte
into
the
church
,
vntyll
such
tyme
as
all
was
peruerted
,
and
as
it
were
prophaned
:
partly
by
the
beastlinesse
of
the
priestes
and
pastors
,
partly
by
their
couetousnes
,
partly
also
because
thei
could
not
resist
the
custome
,
after
that
it
was
receyued
:
And
partly
in
that
the
people
did
seeke
to
be
abused
in
setting
their
mindes
rather
on
childishe
playes
,
then
on
the
true
worshippynge
of
God
.
Therefore
,
that
which
hath
bene
ill
begon
and
established
against
all
reason
,
oughte
to
be
clean
abolished
,
who
so
wil
rightly
correcte
the
abuse
.
But
if
one
can
not
come
at
the
first
to
thys
vnderstanding
,
at
the
lest
let
him
come
by
litle
and
litle
:
and
let
him
open
his
eyes
for
to
discerne
what
the
reliques
are
that
they
do
shewe
.
Nowe
this
is
not
harde
to
be
sene
,
to
them
that
wyll
vnderstand
.
For
amonge
so
manye
euident
lyes
,
as
I
haue
mencioned
where
shall
a
man
chose
one
true
relique
,
of
the
which
he
may
be
certainly
assured
?
Moreouer
,
this
is
in
a
maner
nothing
which
I
haue
touched
,
in
value
of
that
which
remaineth
.
Yea
in
the
meane
time
as
this
boke
was
a
printing
,
one
dyd
shew
me
of
the
third
foreskyn
of
our
lord
Iesus
,
which
is
shewed
at
Heldeshem
,
whereof
I
had
made
no
mencion
.
There
is
an
infinite
number
of
such
like
.
Finally
the
visitation
of
them
would
disclose
and
vncouer
yet
an
hundred
times
more
then
al
that
one
could
say
or
speake
therof
.
So
then
let
euery
one
particulerly
take
hede
that
he
suffer
not
hymself
as
a
beast
to
be
drawen
or
led
after
his
own
braine
,
not
perceyuing
neither
way
nor
meanes
for
to
haue
any
grounde
.
I
remembre
that
which
I
haue
sene
done
to
the
idols
of
our
countrey
,
being
at
that
time
a
litle
child
.
When
sainct
Steuens
day
drew
nere
,
one
did
aswell
trym
the
hattes
and
images
of
the
tirauntes
that
stoned
him
(
for
so
thei
are
called
in
common
language
)
as
his
image
The
poore
simple
women
,
seing
the
tyrantes
so
decked
and
set
in
order
,
toke
them
for
Sainct
Steuens
felowes
,
and
so
euery
one
of
them
had
their
candell
.
And
moreouer
this
was
done
to
the
diuell
Sainct
Mibell
.
So
is
it
of
the
relique
:
for
all
is
so
mingled
and
confused
,
that
one
can
not
worshyp
the
bone
of
a
Marter
,
but
he
shall
be
in
danger
to
worship
the
bones
of
some
certaine
Murtherer
or
thefe
,
or
els
of
an
asse
,
or
of
a
dog
,
or
of
a
horsse
,
neither
can
one
worshyp
our
ladyes
ringes
,
or
her
comme
,
or
girdell
,
but
one
shall
be
in
danger
of
worshipping
the
ringes
of
some
certaine
hoore
.
Wherefore
,
take
hede
of
the
danger
who
so
will
for
none
from
hense
forth
can
pretende
any
excuse
of
ignoraunce
.
FINIS
.