s in his house, and laying
flowers every morning before him. And at some times they boyl victuals
and lay it before him. And the more they perform such ceremonious
service to him here, the more shall be their ward hereafter.

All blessings and good success, they say, come from the hand of God,
but sickness and diseases proceed from the Devil; not that of himself
he hath such absolute power, but as servants have power, licence and
authority from their Masters, so they from God.

[The Priests.] But the Gods will require some to wait at their Altars;
and the Temples, men to officiate in them: their Priests therefore
fall under the next confederation. Of these there are three sorts
according to the three differences of Gods among them. And their
Temples are also called by three different names.

[The first order of them.] The first and highest order of Priests are
the Tirinanxes. Who are the Priests of the Buddou God. Their Temples
are styled Vehars. There is a religious house in the City of Digligy,
where they dwell and assemble and consult together about their affairs,
which being the meeting place of such holy men, they call it a Vihar;
also they admit none to come into their order but persons of the most
noble birth, and that have learning and be well bred; of such they
admit many. But they do not presently upon their admission arrive
unto the high degree of a Tirinanx. For of these there are but
three or four: and they are chose out of all the rest of the order
unto this degree; These Tirinanxes only live in the Vihar, and enjoy
great Revenues, and are as it were the Superiors of all the Priests,
and are made by the King.

Many of the Vehars are endowed and have Farms belonging to them. And
these Tirinanxes are the Landlords, unto whom the Tenants come at a
certain time and pay in their Rents. These Farmers live the easiest
of any people in the Land, for they have nothing to do but at those
set times to bring in their dues and so depart, and to keep in
repair certain little Vehars in the Countrey. So that the rest of
the Chingulais envy them and say of them, Though they live easy in
this world, they cannot escape unpunished in the life to come for
enjoying the Buddou's land and doing him so little service for it.

[The habit of these Priests.] All the rest of the order are called
Gonni. The habit is the same to the whole order, both Tirinanxes
and Gonni. It is a yellow coat gathered together about their wast,
and