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fufTcr no proteftant to lie in their church- 

 yards. 



The proceffions might almoft be confidered 

 as funerals by Grangers : they confift of a 

 number of people of high and low rank, who 

 follow a crofs through the town, accompanied 

 by many lanthorns, and finging the Te Deum 

 and Litany. Thefe proceffions are fixed to 

 certain days ; as the 2d of February, the 25th 

 of March, the 15th of Auguft, the 8th of 

 September, and the 8th of December ; and 

 befides thefe, they have others on certain faints 

 days, and when meat is to be gathered for the 

 prifoners ; and then they take kettles, difhes, 

 pots, &c. with them. If they meet with fuch 

 a proceffion, the people (land flill, take off 

 their hats, and fall on their knees, though the 

 ftreets be ever fo dirty. They have the liberty 

 of making themfelves merry three days before 

 Lent ; and then they throw carraway comfits 

 at the people who pafs by, with other things 

 much more difagreeable. 



The fchools have mailers and timers, who 

 teach children the firfl: principles of reli- 

 gion, and the form of the mafs, which they 

 inflruft them to mumble ail together. 



They 



