a hot iron. The third time he is hanged. There are many cut-purses
among them, and if the rigour of the prince did not cut them off,
they could not be avoided.


OF THEIR RELIGION.


They maintain the opinions of the Greek Church; they suffer no
graven images of saints in their churches, but their pictures
painted in tables they have in great abundance, which they do adore,
and offer unto and burn wax candles before them, and cast holy water
upon them, without other honour. They say that our images, which
are set up in churches, and carved, have no divinity in them. In
their private houses they have images for their household saints,
and, for the most part, they are put in the darkest place of the
house; he that comes into his neighbour's house doth first salute
his saints, although he see them not. If any form or stool stand in
his way, he oftentimes beateth his brow upon the same, and often,
ducking down with his head and body, worshippeth the chief image.
The habit and attire of the priests and of the laymen doth nothing
at all differ; as for marriage, it is forbidden to no man: only
this is received, and held amongst them for a rule and custom, that
if a priest's wife do die, he may not marry again nor take a second
wife; and, therefore, they of secular priests, as they call them,
are made monks, to whom then chastity for ever is commanded. Their
divine service is all done and said in their own language, that
every man may understand it; they receive the Lord's Supper with
leavened bread, and after the consecration they carry it about the
church in a saucer, and prohibit no man from receiving and taking of