And So Come Folk To Worship This Idol, Some
From An Hundred Mile, And Some From Many More.
And before the minster of this idol, is a vivary, in manner of a
great lake, full of water.
And therein pilgrims cast gold and
silver, pearls and precious stones without number, instead of
offerings. And when the minister of that church need to make any
reparation of the church or of any of the idols, they take gold and
silver, pearls and precious stones out of the vivary, to quit the
costage of such thing as they make or repair; so that that nothing
is faulty, but anon it shall be amended. And ye shall understand,
that when [there be] great feasts and solemnities of that idol, as
the dedication of the church and the throning of the idol, all the
country about meet there together. And they set this idol upon a
car with great reverence, well arrayed with cloths of gold, of rich
cloths of Tartary, of Camaka, and other precious cloths. And they
lead him about the city with great solemnity. And before the car
go first in procession all the maidens of the country, two and two
together full ordinatly. And after those maidens go the pilgrims.
And some of them fall down under the wheels of the car, and let the
car go over them, so that they be dead anon. And some have their
arms or their limbs all to-broken, and some the sides.
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