THE Kirk of Laureto was a caumber of the house of the blest Virgin neir Ierusalem in the toune of Nazaret , in whilk she was borne and teende vp , and greeted by the Angel , and thairin also conceaued and nourisht her sonne IESVS whill he was twalle ȝear awd . This caumber , efter the Ascensione of our B. Seuiour , was by the Apostles hallowed and made a Kirk in honor of our B. Ledy , and S. Lvke framed a pictur to har vary lyknes thair ȝit to be seine . It was haunted with muccle deuotione by the folk of the land whar it stud , als lang as they wer Catholiks ; Bot whan they forseckte the Christen feth , and went efter the errour of Mahomet , the Angels tooket , and set it in Sclauonia by a toune nemmed Flumen ; Whar net being honored as it sould , they transported it ouer sea to a wood in the bounds of Recanati , belanginge to a neble dame called Laureta , frae whem it tuke it nem of our B. Ledy of Laureto ; And thence agen , for cause of many theifries , to a hill of twa brothers , in the same bounds ; And lastly , for there striuing for the gifts and oblations , to the high-roade neir-by , whar it ȝit stands meruellous for mirakels , and aboue ground without foundatione ; Wharat the indwellers of the toune of Recanati , wha cam aft to sie it , meikle wondring ; bigged a great wall about it ; Ȝit caude ne man tel wherefrae it cam first whill in the ȝeir M. CC.XC.VI . the B. V. in sleipe reuelled it to a helly deuote man , and he telled it to diuers of athority in this place , whe presently resoluing to try the treuth of the vizione , decried to find out saxteine parsons of credit , whem they sent altogather , to that end , to the toune of Nazaret , garring them to beare with them the mesur of this Kirk , and to met it thair with the foundatione whilk was yet to the fore ; They fand them baith alike , and in a wall thairby ingraune , that it hed stud thair , and hed forgaune the place , and than , cuming back agen , declared the forseide vizione to be trew , and frae that tim fourth , it hes beine surly kend that this Kirk was the caumber of the B. V. wharto Christens begun than , and hes euer efter hed muccle deuotione , for that in it daily she hes dun , and dus , many and many mirakel . Anefrier Paul de Silua an Eremit of muccle godlines , wha woned in a cell neir-by this Kirk whare daily he went to mattins , seyd , that for ten yeirs , one the eight of September , tweye hours before day , he sawe a light descend frem heauen vpon it , whlik he seyd was the B. V. wha thair shawed her selfe one the feest of her birth . In proofe of all whilk , twa verteous men of the seyd toune of Recanati , many times auowed to me , Ruler of Terreman , and Gouernor of the forseyd Kirk , as followeth : Ane of them , nemmed Paule Renalduci , affermed that his grandsyres grandsyre sawe whan the Angels broght it ouer sea , setting it in the forseyd wood , and hed aft frequented it thair ; The other , nemmed Francis Prior , sicklik seyd that his grandsyre , being a hunder and twantie yeirs awd , hed also meikle haunted it in the same place ; and for a mere sur testimony that it hed beine thair , he reported , that his grandsyres grandsyre hed a house beside it wharin he dwelled , and that in his deyes it was beared by the Angels frae thence to the hill of the tweye brothers , whar they set it , as seyd is .