A.D. 



1553- 



The piigrimes 



going to the 



Greeke 



churches. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



measure full of the seede or egges of these forenamed 

 Cavalette, the which they are bound to bring to the 

 market, and present to the officer appointed for the same, 

 the which officer taketh of them very straight measure, 

 and writeth the names of the presenters, and putteth 

 the sayd egges or seed, into a house appointed for the 

 same, and having the house full, they beate them to 

 pouder, and cast them into the sea, and by this policie 

 they doe as much as in them lieth for the destruction 

 of them. This vermine breedeth or ingendereth at the 

 time of corne being ripe, and the corne beyng had away, 

 in the clods of the same ground do the husbandmen find 

 ye nestes, or, as I may rather terme them, cases of the 

 egges of the same vermine. Their nests are much like 

 to the keies of a hasel-nut tree, when they be dried, and 

 of the same length, but somewhat bigger, which case 

 being broken you shall see the egges lie much like unto 

 antes egges, but somewhat lesser. Thus much I have 

 written at this time, because I had no more time of know- 

 ledge, but I trust at my returne to note more of this 

 island, with the commodities of the same at large. 



The 13. day we went in the morning to the Greekes 

 church, to see the order of their ceremonies, & of their 

 communion, of the which to declare the whole order with 

 the number of their ceremonious crossings, it were to 

 long. Wherefore least I should offend any man, I leave 

 it unwritten : but onely that I noted well, that in all their 

 Communion or service, not one did ever kneele, nor yet 

 in any of their Churches could I ever see any graven 

 images, but painted or portrayed. Also they have store 

 of lampes alight, almost for every image one. Their 

 women are alwayes seperated from the men, and generally 

 they are in the lower ende of the Church. This night 

 we went aboord the ship, although the wind v/ere con- 

 trary, we did it because the patrone should not find any 

 lacke of us, as sometimes he did : when as tarying upon 

 his owne businesse, he would colour it with the delay of 

 the piigrimes. 



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