Series 1 > Journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, with his observations on public affairs and other memoranda, 1665-1676

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demanded, Mater cuius generis est: the other, knowing that
the mother of the proponer had a wery ill name of a whore,
replied wittily, distinguo; da distinctionem then; replied, si
intelligas de med est fceminini; si de tua, est communis (in
the same sort does Rosse tel it).
The occasion of the founding that order of the Charterous
in France is wery observable. About the tyme of the wars
in the Low Contries their was a man at Paris that led one
of the strictest, godliest and most blameless lifes that could
be, so that he was in great reputation for his holinesse. He
dies, his corps are carried to some church neir hand wheir
a preist was to preach his funeral sermon the nixt day. A
great concourse of peaple who know him al weill are
gathered to heir, amongs other, lead by meer curiosity, comes
a Soger (Bruno) who had served in the Low Country wars
against the Spaniard and had led a very dissolute, prophane,
godless life. The preist in his sermon begins to extol the
person deceased and amongs other expressions he had that,
that undoubtedly he was in paradis at the present. Upon this
the dead man lifted himselfe up in his coffin and cried wt a
loud voice, justo dei iudicio citatus sum : the peaple, the preist
and al ware so terrified that they ran al out of the kirk, yet
considering that he was a godly man and that it would be a
sin to leive his corps unburied they meit the nixt day. They
ware not weill meet, when he cried again, iusto dei iudicio
iudicatus sum; when they came again the 3d tyme, at which he
cried, justo dei iudicio condemnatus sum. This seimed wery
strange to all, yet it produced no such effects in any as in our
Soger, who was present al the tymes: it occasioned enexpres-
sible disquietment of spirit, and he fell a raisoning, If such a
man who was knowen to be of so blamlesse a conversation,
who was so observant of al his dueties to God be dammed, hath
not obtained mercy, oh what wil word of1 the who hath lead so
vicious a life, thinks thou that thou will be able to reach
the height that that man wan to, no. At last considering
that company and the tongue ware great occasions to sin he
resolves to institute a order who sould have converse wt none
1 What will become of thee. Compare German, werden, geworden.