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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE VVONDRVS FLITTINGE OF THE KIRK OF OVR B. LEDY OF LORETO.
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<P>_THE Kirk of Laureto vvas a caumber of the hou&s;e of the ble&s;t Virgin neir Ieru&s;ale~ in the toune of Nazaret, in vvhilk &s;he vvas borne and teende vp, and greeted by the Angel, and thairin al&s;o conceaued and nouri&s;ht har &s;onne IESVS vvhill he vvas tvvalle &yogh;ear avvd. This caumber, efter the A&s;cen&s;ione of our B. Seuiour, vvas by the Apo&s;tles hallovved and made a Kirk in honor of our B. Ledy, and S. Lvke framed a pictur to har vary lyknes thair &yogh;it to be &s;eine. It vvas haunted vvith muccle deuotione by the folk of the land vvhar it &s;tud, als lang as they vver Catholiks; Bot vvhan they for&s;eckte the Chri&s;ten feth, and vvent efter the errour of Mahomet, the Angels tooket, and &s;et it in Sclauonia by a toune nemmed Flumen; VVhar net being honored as it &s;ould, they tran&s;ported it ouer &s;ea to a vvood in the bounds of Recanati, belanginge to a neble dame called Laureta, frae vvhem it tuke it nem of our B. Ledy of Laureto; And thence agen, for cau&s;e of many theifries, to a hill of tvva brothers, in the &s;ame bounds; And la&s;tly, for there &s;triuing for the gifts and oblations, to the high-roade neir-by, vvhar it &yogh;it &s;tands meruellous for mirakels, and aboue ground vvithout foundatione; VVharat the indvvellers of the toune of Recanati, vvha cam aft to &s;ie it, meikle vvondring; bigged a great vvall about it; &YOGH;it caude ne man tel vvherefrae it cam fir&s;t vvhill in the &yogh;eir M.CC.XC.VI. the B. V. in &s;leipe reuelled it to a helly deuote man, and he telled it to diuers of athority in this place, vvhe pre&s;ently re&s;oluing to try the treuth of the vizione, decried to find out &s;axteine par&s;ons of credit, vvhem they sent altogather, to that end, to the toune of Nazaret, garring them to beare vvith them the me&s;ur of this Kirk, and to met it thair vvith the foundatione vvhilk vvas &yogh;et to the fore; They fand them baith alike, and in a vvall thairby ingraune, that it hed &s;tud thair, and hed forgaune the place, and than, cuming back agen, declared the for&s;eide vizi|one to be trevv, and frae that tim fourth, it hes beine &s;urly kend that this Kirk vvas the caumber of the B. V. vvharto Chri&s;tens begun than, and hes euer efter hed muccle deuotione, for that in it daily &s;he hes dun, and dus, many and many mirakel. Anefrier Paul de Silua an Eremit of muccle godlines, vvha vvoned in a cell neir-by this Kirk vvhare daily he vvent to mattins, &s;eyd, that for ten &yogh;eirs, one the eight of September, tvveye hours before day, he &s;avve a light de&s;cend frem heauen vpon it, vvhlik he &s;eyd vvas the B. V. vvha thair &s;havved har &s;elfe one the fee&s;t of har birth. In proofe of all vvhilk, tvva verteous men of the &s;eyd toune of Recanati, many times auovved to me, Ruler of Terreman, and Gouernor of the for&s;eyd Kirk, as follovveth: Ane of them, nemmed Paule Renalduci, affermed that his grand&s;yres grand&s;yre &s;avve vvhan the Angels broght it ouer &s;ea, &s;etting it in the for&s;eyd vvood, and hed aft frequented it thair; The other, nemmed Francis Prior, &s;icklik &s;eyd that his grand&s;yre, being a hunder and tvvantie &yogh;eirs avvd, hed al&s;o meikle haunted it in the &s;ame place; and for a mere &s;ur te&s;timony that it hed beine thair, he reported, that his grand&s;yres grand&s;yre hed a hou&s;e be&s;ide it vvharin he dvvelled, and that in his deyes it vvas beared by the Angels frae thence to the hill of the tvveye brothers, vvhar they &s;et it, as &s;eyd is.</P>
<CLOSER>To the glorie of the me&s;t pure Virgin.</CLOSER>
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<P>IN LORETO Per France&s;co Serafini. M.DC.XXXV.</P>
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<P>Con licenza de Superiori.</P>
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