Chap. 2. the. 12. Diuision.
There was one Mamereus bishop of Vienna, which in the tyme of great earthquakes which wer* 1.1 in Fraunce, instituted certayne supplications, which the Grecians and we of them, call the Letany, which concerned that matter, there is no doubt but as other discommodities rose in other countries, they lykewyse had prayers accordingly. Nowe pope Gregor〈1 line〉〈1 line〉e either made hymselfe, or gathered the su〈1 line〉〈1 line〉plications that were made against the calamities of euery countrey, and made of them a great Letany or supplication, as Platina calleth it, & gaue it to be vsed in all churches, which thyng albeit all churches might do for the tyme, in respect of the case of the calamitie which the churches suffered, yet there is no cause why it should be perpetuall, that was ordeyned but for a tyme, and why all landes should praye to be deliuered from the incommodities that some lande hath vin troubled with.