TO SMYRNA. 43 
Bifliop alone had taken the Lord’s Supper, there 
came forth twelve priefts dreffed in habits of cere- 
mony; they had mitres on their heads covered with 
crape, which is the head drefs of the Greek priefts. 
Thefetook their places on a fquare ftage raifed three 
fteps from the ground, and feated themfelves on two 
benches, fix on each fide. The Eilhop foon fol- 
lowed dreffed in his epifcopal habit, with two, if not 
three, palls and fmall bells hanging to them, and a 
Bilhop’s mitre of gilt fiber and richly fet with pre- 
cious ftones. He mounted the theatre and took a 
a front place, fo as to have his Abbots before him 
on each fide. At the fame time an aged man that 
had been Bifliop in another place, but depofed by 
the Turks, afcended the pulpit which was oppofite 
to the ftage, dreffed in a pall, accompanied by four 
priefts, and had with him the writings of the Evan- 
gelifts wrote in folio in literal Greek, and bound 
magnificently in fiber. So foon as he had left his 
epifcopal chair, I was permitted to feat myfelf in it 
by fome of the chief of the Greeks, whence I could 
plainly fee all the ceremonies. Any one that will 
repielent to himfelf the Bifliop as Chrift, and the 
twelve priefts as the twelve Apoftles, and then read 
the account the Evangelifts give us of this act, 
may eafily conceive how all was conduced. The 
prieft in the pulpit read the hiftory of Chrift’s 
waffling the dilciples feet ; and as fall as he read 
w hat Chrift did, the other imitated. There was 
e _ven occafion for Judas to be prefent to make up 
1 e number; but no prieft will voluntarily take 
upon him to aft his perfon if he is not paid for 
lls tr< mble; wherefore he that takes upon him to 
reprelent the perfon of Judas for a little while, re- 
ceives iTt cen piaftres. It would be but of fmall confe- 
'\h e had only the name of Judas during the 
une his feet are waflied, hut he commonly retains 
it 
