1527-1615) nostalgic recollections of the pre-Reformation furnishings of the church at Long Melford, which included a representation of Christ's passion, "lively and beautifully set forth," and an image of Our Lady, "the tears as it were running down pitifully upon her beautiful cheeks.

This rare eyewitness account of a sixteenth-century Palm Sunday procession, perhaps during the Marian years, was written by Roger Martyn, whom Parker identifies with one "Roger the Recusant," a churchwarden at Long Melford from 1554 to 1558/9.