Captain Dymes who came to Lewis in 1630 recorded that people who could not visit the church "were wont to cut out the portion of their lame arms or legs in wood with the form of their sores and wounds therof and send them to the saint where I have seen them lying on the altar of the chapel."
According to Captain Dymes' account in 1630, people with disabilities would create wooden representations of their afflictions and send them to a saint, which were then displayed in the chapel as an offering.