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A35242	A journey to Jerusalem, or, A relation of the travels of fourteen English-men in the year 1669 from Scanderoon, to Tripoly, Joppa, Ramah, Jerusalem, Bethlem, Jericho, the River Jordan, the Dead Sea, and back again to Aleppo : with an exact account of all the remarkable places and things in their whole journey / in a letter from T.B. in Aleppo to his friend in London ; together with a map and brief account of the ancient and modern state of those countries.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1672 (1672)	Wing C7341; ESTC R31344	27,941	139

the first Building was highly Reverenced by the Christians of those parts and even until this Day it is much resorted to both by Pilgrims from all parts of the Romish Church and also by divers Gentlemen of the Reformed Churches partly for Curiosity and partly for Antiquity of the place It is Farmed from the Turk and kept by the Popes Creatures whosoever is admitted to the sight of this Sepulcher payeth Nine Crowns to the Turkish Officers so that this Tribute is worth to the Grand Seignior Eight Thousand Duccats Yearly And thus much briefly for the Description of the Holy Land or Land of Promise A JOURNEY TO JERVSALEM Aleppo Honoured Sir THese serve to Accompany an Account of my Journey to the Holy Land for which I might refer you to others who have given a most exact Relation of that Pilgrimage yet according to your desires I present you with this my Description TUesday May 3. 1669. we set Sail from Scanderoon with a N. E. wind on the Margaret Tho. Middleton Commander being fourteen English Men of the Factory of Aleppo in Company but being forced to return three times by contrary Winds by May 10. we arrived at Trippoly whose Port is guarded with six small Castles near the Sea and one great Castle upon the Land and is defended from Tempests on the West with Islands and on the East with a Cape of Land so that none but a North wind can be prejudicial to Ships in this Port the Ground is stony which forc'd the Captains to buoy up their Cables the ships riding in six or seven Fathom Water The Town is about a mile from the Marine situated upon the shelf of a Hill and hath one good Castle for its defence the Town is ruinate and there were few People to be seen at that time it being the time of making white Silk most of the People being in their Gardens May Thirteen after three days Treatment by the Consul for English French and Dutch with extraordinary Civility about four of the clock in the afternoon we set forward for Mount Lebanon and two hours Riding from Trippoly we pitched our Tent at the Village Coffersinue the Inhabitants are Christians and live in houses made of Reeds and Covered with Bushes and the Rode to this Village is very good and pleasant passing to it through a Forrest of Olive Trees and in the Valleys are Gardens of Mulberries with which they feed their Silk-Worms Friday May fourteenth we departed from Coffersinue about four of the clock in the morning passing in a good Rode and through Plains sowed with Wheat about six of the Clock we passed over several Mountains resembling Marble if not really so from which we had a very good Prospect of the fruitfulness of the Valleys between these Mountains upon the ascent of an Hill we came to a Fountain where we break-fasted at seven of the clock we rose from the Fountain and having passed a very dangerous ragged Mountain about nine of the Clock we came to Eden a small Village and extraordinary pleasantly seated being surrounded with Mulberries Walnuts and other sorts of Trees Walnut especially we found very common on this Mount we went to the Bishops House a most miserable ruinated Cottage where the Bishop coming to bid us welcome appeared more like a Dunghil-raker then a Bishop We enquired whence this Village had its name the Maronites which generally inhabit the Mountains say this was the place where Adam committed the sin of Eating the Forbidden Fruit but the Bishop told us it was in Heaven where there were three Trees Adam being forbidden to eat of one of them which wa the Fig-tree but having eaten he fell from Heavan and fell among the Cedars which are some two hours riding from the Bishops house and there he began to till the Ground But the Bishop being very Ignorant of these things we forbear to enquire farther The Bishops have great respect shewed them every one Kissing his Hand on their Knees bareheaded in his House he hath a ruinate Church with an Altar in it and a little beyond his house is a little Chappel neer the head of the Rivolet that feeds his house with water where we found many men with Frank names which had continued there from the Year 1611. Mid-day coming the Bishop made what Preparation his house would afford for Dinner killing two Kids and a Goat and giving us the best Wine the Mountain did afford being a well relished Red and White Wine Night coming after Supper we kiss'd his Hand and next morning we being now but twelve in Company went to take our leave of him and made him a present of Livers besides something to the servants as is usual for Pilgrims that take this Voyage two of our Company waiting our return at Trippoly Saturday May the fifteenth about five a Clock in the morning we rose from thence and about eight of the Clock we came to the Cedars all that remain of them being in a very small compass We spent some time in cutting sticks and setting our Names on the great Trees At this place there came to us the Captain of a Village called Upshara an hours riding from the Caedars In our way as we returned he envited us to Dinner at his Village which we accepted of and after dinner made him a Present This man is a Maronite and takes Caffar or Toll of the Turks which pass that way with their Sheep and Oxen he hath a hundred Souldiers under his Command who are all Christians About two a clock we mounted and after three hours riding we came to a mighty deep Descent winding in and out which is the way to the Patriark of the Maronites house called Caunibone it is a very good Convent and lies under the Rocks they have a Bell in the Church as in Europe and goe to their Devotions Morning and Evening After we had kissed the Patriarks hand we demanded what was to be seen and the Druggerman carried us to see St. Marene's Grot of whom they recount this Story That a Venetian in the time that the Franks had the Countrey came with his wife and and one daughter to live there and after some years his Wife dying he was resolved to goe into the Covent and live a religious life and would therefore have his Daughter to leave him but his perswasions could not prevail with her but rather than leave her Father she would put on mans Apparrel and live a devoted life with him also which at last though unwilling he assented to she being young and handsom there they lived very strictly for several years afterward her Father dyed And the lay Brothers and Fathers going out as usually to Till the ground She seldome went with them the Chief of the Convent keeping her at home being much taken with such a handsome young man as he thought whereupon they began to grumble that St. Marrene did not go with them so that at last to satisfy the Fratres he

Skirmish Thirteen Thousand of them were Slain The People of Alexandria put Fifty Thousand of them to the Sword They of Damascus ten Thousand of them and Antonius a Roman Captain slew in Ascalon Ten Thousand and Cestius another Captain slew Fourscore Thousand and Forty Persons And now to come to the Wars mannaged here by Vespasian This Vespasion in the Seige of Aphaca slew and took Prisoners Seventeen Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Persons in Samaria Eleaven Thousand Six Hundred Persons and in Josepata Forty two Thousand two Hundred Persons In Joppa so many Killed and Drowned themselves that the Sea threw up again Four Thousand two Hundred Persons and the rest so totally perished that there remained none to carry tydings to Jerusalem of the loss of the Town In the City of Tarichea were Slain and made Captives Forty five Thousand Persons besides those which were given to the King Agrippa In Gamala there perished Ninety Thousand and none were left alive but only two Women In Gascala Five Thousand Men died by the Sword In the City of Gadara there were Slain Thirty two Thousand two Hundred besides an infinite number of such as Drowned themselves In Jerusalem it self there Died Eleven Hundred Thousand of them partly by the Sword and partly by Famine the worse Enemy of the two there were found two Thousand in Privies and Sinks and Ninety Seaven Thousand were taken prisoners insomuch that thirty Jews were sold for a Peny Now that Jerusalem was able to contain such a number of People is evident in that when Cestius was Leiuetenant of Jury the high Priest did at his Request number the People which came to Eat of the Paschal Lamb and found them to be two Millions and Seven Hundred Thousand living Souls all Sound and Purified And when Titus laid Seige to the City it was at the Feast of the Passeover when most of the People were there Assembled God as it were thus Imprisoning them All these Massacres besides divers others Omitted and infinite Numbers which were Slain in the Feilds and Villages which Drowned themselves and were privately made away Amounting to almost two Millions of People happened in the compass of foure Years beginning in the twelse of Nero and ending in the second of Vespasian Yet was not the whole Nation Rooted out till the Year One Hundred Thirty Six For then this Miserable People having stirred two notable Rebellions First under Trajan and asterward under Adrian the Emperours they were generally Banished their Native Countrey and never again suffered to inhabit it but as Strangers After this Desolation the Jews were dispersed all over the World and especially in Spain where Adrian Commanded many of them to dwell yet they found every where so little Favour that having divers times been put to greivous Mulcts and Ransomes they were at last quite t●rust out of Europe also The First Christian Prince that expelled the Jews out of his Territories was that Heroick King our Edward the First who was such a sore Scowrge also to the Scots and it is thought divers Families of those Banished Jews fled then to Scotland where they have propagated since in great Numbers Witness the Aversion this Nation hath above others to Hogs-Flesh Nor was this their Extermination for their Religion but for their notorious Crimes as poisoning of Wells Counterfeiting of Coins falsifying of Seals and Crucifying of Christian Children with other Villanies This happened in the Year One Thousand Two Hundred Ninety One And Sixteen Years after France followed our Example It was neer two Hundred Years after that Ferdinand turn'd them out of Spain and five years after him Emanual of Portugal did the like But the Countreys from whence they were Last expelled were Naples and Sicily in the Year One Thousand Five Hundred Thirty Nine In other parts of Christendome they reside yet in great numbers as in Germany High and Low Bohemia Lituania Poland and Russia In Italy also they are found but in no Countrey which is subject to the King of Spain They live very quietly at Rome under the Popes nose and St. Mark makes no Scruple to entertain them at Venice In sundry places of the Ottoman Empire they are found very numerous so that it is thought Constantinople and Thessalonica only have near upon twenty Thousand of them Asia is full of them as Aleppo Tripoly Damascus Rhodes and indeed all places of commerce and Traffique There are numbers of themifound also in Persia Arabia and about Cranganor in India And to come to Affrick they have their Synagogues and Lumbards bards in Alexandria the Gran Cairo as also in Fesse in Tremiseu and divers places in the Kingdome of Morocco there are about one hundred Families left in Jerusalem But the place where they are most unmingled is Tiberias which the Turks gave to Mendez the Jew for some signal services thither they oftentimes bring or send the bones of their dead freinds who have left large Legacies to be there interred from other places The City of Jerusalem was afterward re-edified by Elius Adrianus and given to the Christians from whom it was taken by Cosroes and the Presians in the Year Six Hundred Fifteen and from them forcibly wrested by Haumar and the Saracens in the Year Six Hundred Thirty Seven Next it fell into the power of Cutlu Moses and the Turks in the Year One Thousand Nine under whose oppression when it had long groaned Peter the Hermit stirred up the Westerne Princes to relieve the distressed Christians whose designs attained their wished effect under the Banner of the Victorious Prince Godfrey of Bullen in the Year One Thousand Ninety Nine This Godfrey for his merits was to have been invested with the Royal Wreath of Majesty which he denied thinking it unfit to wear a Crown of Gold where his Saviour had Worn a Crown of Thorns yet for the Common good sake he accepted the Title after whom reigned these Christian Princes Second Baldwin Third Baldwin the Second Fourth Fulk Earl of Anjou Fifth Baldwin the Third Six Almerick Seventh Baldwin the Fourth Eight Baldwin the fifth Ninth Guy of Lusignan the last King of Jerusalem during whose time Saladine the Sultan of Egypt won the Kingdom which his Successours defended against all invasions till the Year One Thousand Five Hundred Seventeen when Selinus the first Emperour of the Turks added the Holy Land together with Egypt to his Empire And so the whole Countrey of Palestine with the City of Jerusalem are under the dominion of the Turk to this day and is inhabited by some Christians who make a great benefit of shewing the Sepulcher of Christ and of late Years also by Moors Arabians Greeks Latines Turks Jews nay I may safely and probably say with People of all Nations The whole Land containeth Four Regions Idumea Judea Samaria and Gallilee Idumea beginneth at Mount Cassius or as some will at the Lake Sirbon reaching to the Eastward of Judea The Cheif Cities are Maresa Rhinocorura Rapha Antedon Ascalon

of John Baptist and after an hours Riding we came to John Baptists Fountain where was his Chamber and a Rock wherein there was a place cut out like a bench for his Bed to break off any bit of this Rock is Worthy excommunication 10 Zacharias House where the Virgin Mary came to salute her Couzen Elizabeth for the Angel that told her she should conceive told her also that her Couzen was with Child and upon her Salutation the Child leaped in the Womb Near this House is a Fountain with two Cisterns which is called Elizabeths Fountain 11 There is a Stone where John Baptist Preached which the Fathers say the Turks have endeavoured to break in peices but could not 12 The place where John Baptist was Born now a Stable but formerly a Church where the Fathers upon John Baptists day carry their Organs thither and Adorn the Place for their Prayers 13 The Tombs of the Maccabees which we saw at a distance and being ruinated appear as so many Arches 14 We passed by a Village where the Men are all Turks and the Women Christians for the People being poor the Turks were very severe with them for their Harach who not being able to pay all at once turned Turks c. 15 We came to the Mountain Crupil where part of the Wood whereof our Saviours Cross was made was cut down and over the place where they say the Tree stood from which it was cut there is a stately Church which is in the Possession of the Greeks the just place where the Tree grew is inlayd with Silver by which they set a Dish for your Charity the Flore of this Church is well Wrought with Mosaick Work and painted with Scripture Stories and instead of a Bell they knock upon a board that hangs up which sounds somewhat like a Bell. And now we goe forward to the Convent at Jerusalem passing by Mount Grhon where Solomon was Anointed King and about night we came to our Lodgings having made two days journey to see the Holy Places and Traverse the Mountains of Judea we slept very well that night but still we have more Pilgrimages June 1. We lay still to recover our selves of our Bethlem Journey but Father Tomasa out of his Zeal is very importunate with us to be walking to see other places which is very Meritorious in the Roman Church and had we been of their Religion it had been impossible to have mist Heaven for we had received indulgences for all our Lives which fancy I wish doth not deceive too many June the second We began to search for the Holy places which are these following 1 The Immolation of Isaac neer the Temple called Mount Morea which place is inlay'd with Silver and a dish set by for your Offering Secondly Peters Prison still made a Prison by the Turks at the further end of which is a hole in the Wall where they say the Chain was fastened with which St. Peter was Chained litle remembring how often Jerusalem hath been destroyed and the Stones of that Old Wall are now probably as far under Ground as these are above Thirdly The Monastery of the Knights of Malta a very fair building one Room whereof hath several Partitions for Beds with a hole in the middle that if any of them are Sick or Fluxitive they are layd there to which the Water being Bad and the Air unwholesome doth very much incline them Fourthly Solomons Temple which if any Christian goe into or but up the stairs he must Turn Turk or be burnt The Rarity of which I shall give you an Account of when I come to a Prospect Fifthly St. Hellena's Hospital where there are seven great Caldrons in which she used to have Provisions dressed for the Poor where we pay one Liver for entrance Sixthly the Judgement Gate at which our Saviour was brought in and some distance from the Gate is the place where he was Condemned Seventhly The Dolorous Way which is the way that Christ went when he went to be Crucified and in the way is the House of St. Veronica who gave our Saviour a Napkin to wipe his Face as he passed by there is also Lazarus's House and the House of the Rich Glutton and the place where our Saviour Fainted as they say and Simon took up the Cross and neer that is the Church where the Virgin Mary stood to see him pass by and Swounding with Grief now called the Virgin Maries Church Eightly Herods Palace now ruinated and is now the Bassha's Seraglio in one Room is the place where they Clothed our Saviour with Purple Ninethly Pilates House where they shew the place where our Saviour was Crowned with Thorns and the Pillar to which he was bound which was brought from thence and put into the Temple next we enter the Hall where Pilate Washed his Hands declared himself Innocent of our Saviours Blood out of which place we had a fair Prospect of Solomons Temple which is built within the middle of a spacious Yard very well Paved there are several Arches good Walks and Buildings about it the Temple is Wrought with Mosaick Work and by the Turks report is very Rich within it being one of their Mosques and though they have a half Moon upon all their Temples or Mosques yet this only hath a Cross through the middle The Fathers reporting it would not stand till the Cross was made Tenthly The place where Christ was Scourged which is now a Shop for Linnen Cloth but the Pillar to which our Saviour was bound is brought from thence and put into the Temple Eleventhly The House of Annas where our Saviour being carried along with great Violence down a steep place to prevent falling he layd hold of the corner of a Wall where there is a place in one of the Stones fit for a Mans Hand which the Fathers account a great Miracle Twelfthly Simon the Pharisees House where there is a Stone with the print of a Foot which they say our Saviour made when he stood to pardon Mary Magdalen her Sins The Fathers say the Turks have endeavoured several times to remove this Stone but still it comes into the same place again Thirteenth The House of Joakim and Anna a fair high Building and down in an under Room cut out of the Rock is the place where they say The Virgin Mary was Born Fourteenth The Pool of Bethesda where the Sick lay to be healed the Angel comming Yearly to Trouble the Water and he that entred in first was healed but it is now dry and half filled with Earth Fifteenth St. Stephens Gate and a little out of the City is the place where Stephen was Stoned and the Fathers would have you to fancy that there is the print of his Hands Face and Knees when he fell down Sixteenth The Vally of Jehosophat which is at the bottom of the Hill between the the Mountain on which Jerusalem stands and Mount Olivet Seventeenth The Place where the Virgin Mary is

Buried where going down a great many stone steps you come into a large Vault where all the Christians have their Altars apart all being of several Opinions and the Turks and Christians do both burn Lamps over her Grave here we pay One Liver for entrance and Forty eight Stone Steps upward is Josephs Tomb and over against that are the Tombs of Joakim and Anna Eighteenth The place where Christ sweat Bloud and the Angel appeared to Comfort him is neer the bottom of Mount Olivet Nineteenth The Place where our Saviour Prayed that This Cup might pass from him and neer that place is the Rock on which his Disciples sate when he went to Prayer between which two places he was taken it is now bordering on the Garden of Gethsemena but might formerly have been part of the Garden and is on the Ascent of the Mount of Olivet where the Multitude going to Carry our Saviour away Peter smote off Malcus his Ear in in the way to the City Twentyeth The Place where they say the Virgin Mary Prayed for St. Stephen while he was Stoning Twenty first The place where Christ Wept over Jerusalem it is almost at the Top of Mount Olivet Twenty second The Place our Saviour Ascended into Heaven having as they say left the Print of his Foot on a Stone it hath now a Chappel built over it with fourteen Marble Pillars round it it is at the top of Mount Olivet and a little way off is the Place where the Men of Gallilee stood when the Angel asked them Why stand ye Gazing up Twenty third The Place is shewed us where the Angel told the Virgin she should be Raysed in three Days Twenty fourth Pelagius his Grot from whence we saw Bethpage where the Asses Colt was tied Twenty fifth The Tree under which our Saviour stood when he Preached the Judgment Sermon Twenty sixth The place where he made the Lords Prayer Twenty seventh The Place where the Apostles made the Creed being a Grot of twelve Arches Twenty Eight The Sepulchers of the Prophets being Forty seven in Number cut out of the Rock and entring in at a Door we came into a large Grot where there were several places to cut out fit to contain a Coffin here we paid one Liver Twenty Nineth The Tree where Judas Hanged himself The Thirtyeth The Sepulcher which Jehosophat intended for himself but being a King he was buried in the Sepulcher 〈◊〉 the Kings Thirty One Absoloms Pillar or Sepulcher which is cut out of the Rock and about the bigness of a small Chamber with Pillars cut out round about so that it stands like a Room built for some single Person it is of a good Height and hath some Carving about it Thirty Two They say hereby is the Print of Christs Feet for when he was Carried to Jerusalem he stopped at the Brook Cedron and desired to Drink This Brook is now but a small Channel and had no Water in it when we were there but in the Winter time the Water comes down from the Hills and makes a small Current Thirty Three Next is the Place where Saint James hid himself three Days and three Nights it is a place cut out of the Rock which must needs have been made for a dwelling place neer this is the Sepulcher of Zacharias the Son of Barachias cut out of the Rock Thirty four On the side of the Hill on which Solomon Worshipped Molock are Chambers cut out of the Rock which they say was the place wherein the Three Hundred Wives and One Thousand Concubines of Solomon were kept Thirty Five The Fountain of the Virgin Mary which you goe down to by Stone Steps the Water whereof is so Sweet that were a Man blindfolded he could not think it to be any thing but Milk and Water Thirty Six The Place where the Prophet Isaiah was Sawn Asunder his Sepulcher is under a Rock neer the same Place Thirty Seven The Fountain of Siloa by which is a Cistern wherein formerly the Pilgrims used to Wash but it is now Ruined and filled with Stones and Mud yet it is Water still accounted good for the Eye-Sight and near this is Golgotha Thirty Eight And near this Place in a bottom is a Well wherein they say Nehemiah hid the Holy Fire when the Children of Jsrael were carried Captive and when they returned Forty Years after they say they found the same Fire in the Well Thirty Nine Ascending up the Mount we came to the Tombs of Annas and Caiphas Forty And near it is the Place where the Apostles hid themselves where entring a streight passage we came into a Room under Ground out of which there goe several holes wherein they say the Apostles Lay. Forty One We then came to Aceldama a Grot which is now held by the Armenians for a Burying Place it is said the Earth thereof will consume the Body of a Man in Forty Eight Hours there are several Vents on the Top to let out the smell We went down under a Rock to a place where we could look into it and we there saw the form of a Man entire they being only layd in but not Covered with Earth Forty Second We came to the Fountain of Bersheba which is at the bottom of Mount Sion in which there is now but little Water we being forced to tarry a quarter of an hour for one Draught Having now seen all that was Remarkable in these Parts we made toward the Convent having got a great deal of Credit with Father Tomasa that we should be such Zealous Pilgrims as to walk from five a Clock in the Morning till Mid-day but he to encourage us would still be formost and told us always there was some place more worth our seeing then any we had seen before and though he was an old man and the Weather hot yet at the going up of a Hill he would run that he might be foremost and gave us all the good Words that could be to encourage us Protestants who never hoped or thought that we Merited any thing by it but at length we came to the Convent again and being well weary every one retired to his Lodings June Third we repose at the Convent after Dinner one the Fathers came and told us that the Father Guardian would wash our Feet which Honour we accounted too great for us and desired to be excused but we were forced to comply with the Orders of the Convent The Bason which was as big as a Tub was placed by a Chair there were Rose-Leaves and Herbs put into the Water the Fathers all stood in a Row Singing Godly Hymns we sat down and the Father Guardian wrapt a Towel about our Knees to keep our Cloths from Water then they began to scrub our Leggs and Feet being Masters of their Art there were two Fratres attending one on one Leg and another on the other having first dryed the left Foot the Frater kisses it and puts on our Slipper then he dryes