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A62650	Two journeys to Jerusalem containing first, a strange and true account of the travels of two English pilgrims some years since, and what admirable accidents befel them in their journey to Jerusalem, Grand Cairo, Alexandria, &c. by H.T. Secondly the travels of fourteen Englishmen in 1669. from Scanderoon to Tripoly, Joppa, Ramah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, the river Jordan, the Lake of Sodom and Gomorrah, and back again to Aleppo. By T.B. VVith the rare antiquities, monuments, and memorable places and things mentioned in holy Scripture: and an exact description of the old and new Jerusalem, &c. To which is added, a relation of the great council of the Jews assembled in the plains of Ajayday in Hungaria in 1650. to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ. By S.B. an Englishman there present. VVith an account of the vvonderful delusion of the Jews, by a counterfeit Messiah or false Christ at Smyrna, in 1666. and the event thereof. Lastly, the fatal and final extirpation and destruction of the Jews throughout	Timberlake, Henry, d. 1626.; Brett, Samuel.; R. B., 1632?-1725? Journey to Jerusalem.; T. B.	1692 (1692)	Wing T1277A; ESTC R219326	92,206	197

with their Horrible and Mu●derous Hands and finally Wishing that his Innocent Bloud should be on them and their Children Which accordingly soon after happened to the utter Desolation of their Countrey the Romans laying waste and levelling to the Ground the Magnificent Structures and Buildings thereof so that herein was verified the Prophecy of Christ while he was upon the Earth That one Stone should not be left upon another And as for the People Divine Vengeance did continually pursue them till the most part were destroyed and the rest Dispersed throughout out the World even to this Day For first the Inhabitants of Caesarea slew of the Jews in one Day about 20000. and such as fled were taken and Imprisoned by Florus the Lieutenant of Judea To Revenge this Slaughter the Jews set upon the Syrians in which Skirmish 13000 of them were slain The People of Alexandria put 50000 to the Sword They of Damascus 10000. and Antonius a Roman Captain ●lew in Ascalon 10000 and Cestius another Captain ●lew 80040 Persons And now to come to the Wars managed here by Vespasian This Vespasian in the Seige of Aphaca slew and took Prisoners Seventeen Thousand one Hundred and Thirty Persons in Samaria 11600 and in Iosepata 42200 Persons In Joppa so many Killed and Drowned themselves that the Sea threw up four Thousand two Hundred and the rest so totally perished that there remained none to carry tidings to Jerusalem of the loss of the Town In the City of Tarichea were Slain and made Captives Forty five Thousand besides those which were given to King Agrippa In Gamala there perished Ninety Thousand and none left alive but only two Women In Gascala Five Thousand Men died by the Sword In the City of Gadara were slain Thirty two Thousand two Hundred beside● an infinite number that D●owned themselves In Jerusalem it self there died Eleven Hundred Thousand Jews partly by Sword and Famine the worse Enemy of the two there were found 2000 in Privies and Sinks and Ninety Seven Thousand were taken prisoners in so much that 30 Jews were sold for a Penny Now that Ierusalem was able to contain such a number of People is evident in that when Cestius was Lieutenant of Jury the High Priest at his Request numbered 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 Siege to the City it was at the Feast of the Passover 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 slain in the Fields and Villages which drowned themselves and were privately made away Amounting to almost two Millions of People happened in the compass of four Years beginning in the twelfth of Nero and ending in the second of Vespasian Yet was not the whole Nation Rooted out till 136. For then this Miserable People having stirred two notable Rebellions First under Trajan and afterward under Adrian the Emperours they were all banished their Native Country and never again suffered to inhabit it but as Strangers After this Desolation the Jews were dispersed over the World and especially in Spain where Adrian Commanded many of them to dwell yet found every where so little Favour that having divers time been put ●o grievous Mulcts and Ransoms they were at last quite thrust out of Europe The first Christian Prince that expelled the Jews out of his Territories was that Heroick King Edward 1. who was such a sore Scourge 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 1291. And 16 Years after France followed our Example It was near 200 Years after that Ferdinand turned them out of Spain and five years after him Emanuel of Portugal did the like But the Countreys from whence they wer● Last expelled were Naples and Sicily in the Year 1539. In other parts of Christendom 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 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 very numerous so that it is thought Constantinople and Thessalonica only have near twenty thousand Asia is full of them as Aleppo Tripoly Damascus Rhodes and indeed all places of commerce and traffique There are numbers also in Persia Arabia and about Cranganor in India In Africk they have their Synagogues and Lumbards as in Alexandria Grand Cairo Fesse Trimesen and divers places in the Kingdom of Morocco there are about 100 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 oft bring or send the bones of their dead friends who have left large Legacies to be there interred from other places The City of Jerusalem was afterward redified by Elius Adrianus and given to the Christians from whom it was taken by Cosroes and the Persians in the Year 615. and from them forcibly wrested by Haumar and the Saracens in 637. Next it fell into the power of Cutlu Moses and the Turks in 1009. under whose oppressions when it had long groaned Peter the Hermite stirred up the Western 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 1099. 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 he accepted the Title after whom reigned these Christian Princes Baldwin the 1. Baldwin the 2. Fulk Earl of Anjou Baldwin the 3. Almerick Baldwin the 4. Baldwin the 5. 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 1517. 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 Turks to this day and is inhabited by some Christians who make a great benefit of shewing the Sepulchre of Christ and of late years also by Moors Arabians Greeks Latins Turks Jews nay I may say with People of all Nations The whole

left hand whence they told me Simon Sirenus was coming toward the Dolorus way when the Souldiers seeing him called him and compelled him against his will presently to help our Saviour to carry his Cross. Then they told me that in that same place the people wept when Christ answering said unto them Oh Daughters of Ierusalem weep not for me c. Next they shewed the Church where the Virgin Mary fell into an agony when Christ passed by carrying his Cross. Afterward they brought me to Pilates Palace which though it be all ruinated yet is there an old Arch of Stone which is still maintained by the Christians and standing full in the high way we passed under it upon that Arch is a Gallery which admitteth passage over our heads from one side of the street to the other for Pilates Palace extendeth over the high way on both sides and Pilate had two great Windows in the same Gallery to gaze out both ways into the street Into this Gallery was our Saviour brought when he was shewn unto the Jews and they standing below in the street heard the words Ecce Homo Behold the man A little from this place is the foot of the stairs where our Saviour did first take up his Cross. Then they brought me to the place where the Virgin Mary was Conceived and born which is the Church of St. Anna and no Turkish Church Next they shewed the Pool where Christ cleansed the Leapers and then guiding me to St. Stevens Gate a little within it upon the left hand they shewed the stone wherewith St. Steven was stoned From hence I saw the stairs going up to Port Area at which Port there are divers Reliques to be seen it was the East Gate of the Temple which Solomon built upon Mount Moria in which Temple was the place of Sanctum Sanctorum but now in that place is builded a goodly great Church belonging to the Turks Thus spent I the second day being the 26. day of March all within the Gates of Ierusalem except my going to see the stone wherewith Saint Steven was stoned The next day being the 27. having done our Duty to God and the Pater Guardian we hired Asses for the Friars and the Trouchman to ride on and going forth the City Gates we mounted and rode directly towards Bythinia By the way as we rode they shewed the place of the fruitless Fig-tree which Christ cursed next the Castle of Lazarus that Lazarus whom Christ loved so well for his house or Castle was in Bythinia but it was utterly ruinated and nothing to be seen but the two sides of the Wall In the same Town they shewed the House of Mary Magdalen but so ruinated that nothing is left of it but a piece of a Wall there I saw likewise Martha's House consisting of 3 pieces of Wall and thence they brought me to the Stone where the two Sisters told Christ that Lazarus was dead from whence passing on they shewed the place where our Saviour raised Lazarus from death after he had layen three days in the ground and where he was buried afterward when he died This place hath been notably kept from the beginning and is repaired still by the Christians but yet in poor and very bare sort And this is all that I saw in Bythinia From hence we rode to Mount Olivet and passing by Bethphage they brought me to the place where our Saviour took the Ass and Colt when he rode to Ierusalem upon Palm Sunday Riding from Bethphage directly North we came to the foot of Mount Olivet where they shewed the place Benedicta of the Virgin Maries Annunciation and ascending to the top of the mount we saw the place of our Saviours Ascension At the sight whereof we said our Prayers and were commanded to say 5 Pater Nosters and 5 Ave Maries but we said the Lords Prayer took notice of the place and departed This is the highest part of Mount Olivet and hence may be discerned many notable places as first West from it is the prospect of the new City of Ierusalem South-west the prospect of Mount Sion which is adjoyning to new Ierusalem also in the valley between Sion and the Mount whereon I stood I saw the Brook Cedron the Pool Silo the Garden wherein our Saviour Prayed the place where he was betrayed and divers other notable things in this valley of Gethsemanie as the Tomb of Absolom King Davids son the Tomb of Iehoshaphat and others Full South from Mount Olivet I could see the places we came last from as all Bythinia and Bethphage also East North-east from this Mount may be seen the River of Iordan which is 15 Miles off and Iericho which is not far because West-ward of Iordan From Mount Olivet East and East-Southeast may be seen the Lake of Sodom and Gomorrah which is some 100 Miles long and 8 Miles over all these places I set with the Compass when I was on Mount Olivet for I stayed on the top of it some two hours and a half having a little Compass about me Descending hence toward the foot West-ward we came to a place where the Friars told me that a woman called St. Pelagia did Pennance in the habit of a Friar whereat I smiling they demanding why I did so I answered that to believe Pelagia was a Saint stood out of the Compass of the Creed they told me when I came home at night they would shew me sufficent Authors for it but when I came home I had so much to do in writing my notes out of my table book that I had not leisure to urge their Authors for St. Pelagia By this time they brought us to the place where our Saviour did foretell the judgment then where he made the Pater Noster or Lords Prayer and then where the Apostles made the Creed From hence we came to the place where Christ wept for Ierusalem and from thence to the place where the Virgin Mary gave the Girdle to St. Thomas and then where she Prayed for St. Steven All these last were coming down Mount Olivet toward the Valley of Gethsemanie where by the way we came to our Ladies Church wherein is her Sepulchre and the Sepulchre of her Husband Ioseph with the Sepulchre of Anna and many others This Church standeth at the foot of Mount Olivet and was built as they say by Helena the mother of Constantine the Great Here the Friars went into the Virgin Maries Sepulchre and there either said Mass or Prayers while we in the mean time went to Dinner In this Church is a Fountain of exceeding fine Water in regard we went down into a Vault as it were it giveth a marvellous loud eccho or sound Hence we came to the Cave whither Iudas came to betray Christ when he was at Prayer and thence to the Garden where our Saviour left his Disciples commanding them to Watch and Pray but found them sleeping at his return then they brought me to the Garden where Christ

was taken these last three were in the Valley Gethsemanie Riding into the Town whereof the Valley bears the Name on the left hand I saw the before remembred Sepulchres of Absolom and Iehoshaphat and on the right the Brook Cedron which at my being there had not one drop of water in it for indeed it is but a ditch to convey the water to Mount Olivet and Mount Sion when store of Rain falleth And this ditch or brook Cedron is in the Valley between both those Hills Hard by they shewed me a stone marked with the Feet and Elbows of Christ in their throwing of him down when they took him and ever since say they have those prints remained there From thence we rode to the place where St. Iames the younger hid himself and afterward was buried there there also they shewed where Zechariah the Son of Barachiab was buried and brought me to another place where they say the Virgin Mary used often to Pray Then came we to the pool of Silo wherein Mr. Burrel and I washed our selves and hence we were shewn the place where the Prophet Esay was sawn in pieces thence they guided us to an exceeding deep Well where the Jews as they say hid the holy fire in the rime of Nebuchadnezzar Here we ascended from the Valley to a hill side which lyeth just South from Mount Sion but there is a great Valley between called Gehemion and there they shewed the places where the Apostles hid themselves being a Cave in a Rock Ascending higher they brought me to the field or rather to the Rock where the common burial place is for strangers being the very same as they say which was bought with the 30 pieces of silver that Iudas received as the price of his Master which place is called Aceldama and is fashioned as followeth It hath 3 holes above and on the side there is a vent at the upper holes they use to let down the dead bodies to the depth of about some fifty foot In this place I saw two bodies new or very lately let down and looking down for by reason of the three great holes above where the dead bodies lie it is very light I received such a savour into my head as made me very sick so that I entreated the Friars to go no further but return home to the City Then we went through the valley of Gehemion and at the foot of Mount Sion having a little bottle of water which I brought from the Pool Silo I drank and rested an hour eating a few Raisins and Olives which we brought with us from Ierusalem After I had rested and refreshed my self we began to ascend Mount Sion and a little way up the hill they shewed me the place where Peter having denied Christ and hearing the Cock-crow went out and wept Ascending higher they shewed the house where the Virgin Mary dwelt which was near the Temple then they brought me to the place where the Jews setting on the blessed Virgin Mary to take her she was conveyed away by miracle Hence we went to the house of Cajaphas which was somewhat higher upon Mount Sion and therein I saw the Prison wherein our Saviour was detained Passing on still higher they guided me to a little Chappel which is kept by the Armenians whereinto entring at the high Altar they shewed the Stone which was upon our Saviours Sepulchre as they say it is near the place where Peter denied Christ for there they shewed me the Pillar whereon the Cock stood when he crowed Hence was I brought to the place where our Saviour made his last Supper and thence came where the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles whence passing on they shewed me the place where Christ appeared to his Disciples the eighth day after his Resurrection where St. Thomas desired to see his wounds Near this place upon Mount Sion the Virgin Mary died and hard by they shewed a place bought by the Pope of the Turks for the burial of the European Christians because he would not have them cast into Aceldama They told us the year before five Englishmen were buried in that place whether by the Fryars poysoning them or how else it happened but we thought it strange that all five should die in one week Thence came we to the house of Annas the high Priest now only two very old walls at the side of one is an old Olive-tree whereto they told me our Saviour was bound and demanding the reason they said that when he was brought unto his house Annas being asleep his people would not awake him so during their stay they bound him to that Olive-tree and when he awaked then he was brought in and examined Departing hence toward the South Gate of the City which standeth likewise upon Mount Sion we alighted from our Asses and entring I noted it well for I had seen three of the four Gates And being desirous to see the North-Gate also they brought me to the Church of St. Thomas which is within the Wall all ruinated then to the Church of St. Mark where Peter came being delivered out of Prison by the Angel that brake open the Gate Then they shewed me the house of Zebedeus whence we came to a place kept by the Abassines and there ascending first by a dark way led on by a line or Cord we attained to a high place near to the Sepulchra Sancta where I paid two pieces of silver to go in and being entred I demanded what place it was the same quoth they where Abraham would have sacrificed his son Isaac Thence went we to the Prison whence St. Peter and St. Iohn were being the next door to the prison wherein I was put before which made me the sorrier that it was not my fortune to have gone into it being so near it Hence we came to the North-gate being on Mount Calvary side where having well viewed the Gate and perceiving it grew late we went directly home this was my third days work in and about Ierusalem wearied not a little with often alighting to pray for at each several place before recounted we dismounted and said the Lords Prayer on our knees On the morrow being the 28th day early in the morning we took our Asses riding forth at the West Gate through which I first entred and passing South we left mount Sion on the left hand at the foot whereof they shewed the house of Uriah and the Fountain where Bathsheba washed her self when King David espied her out of his Turret Thence went we to the place where the Angel took up Habakkuk by the hair of the head to carry meat to Daniel in the Lions Den. Next came we to the place where the wise men found the Star when it was lost and then where the Virgin Mary rested her self under a tree as she came from Bethlehem to Ierusalem which tree they still repair by setting another close to the root of it Hence rode we to the house of Elias

I was informed before I came that it was all ruinated though I found it otherwise having a little Compass about me to set such places as I could easily come by The very heart of the old City was seated on Mount Sion and Mount Moria On the North part whereof was Mount Calvary without the Gates of the old City about a stones cast and no further But now I find this new City situated so far in the North part that it is almost quite off Mount Sion but yet not off Mount Moria which was between Mount Sion and Mount Calvary so that now undoubtedly the South Wall of the City are plackd on the N. foot of the Hill of Sion The East Walls which confronts Mount Olivet is a great part of the Ancient Wall from the S. E. angle North a quarter of a mile behind Mount Calvary so that Mount Calvary which was formerly a stones cast without the City and the appointed place for ordinary execution I find ●o be now seated in the middle of the new City This Mount Calvary is not so high as to be called a Mount but rather a piked or spired Rock For I noted the Situation both when I was at the top and when I came to the Sepulchre being distant from the foot of it 173 foot as I measured it Whereupon I conclude that the place of Burial which Ioseph of Arimathea made for himself was from the foot of Mount Calvary 173 foot West in which place is the Sepulchre of our Saviour which is two foot and a half high eight foot in length and four foot broad wanting three inches covered with a fair white stone Over the Sepulchre is a Chappel the North Wall whereof is joyned close with the North side of the Sepulchre And of like stone as the Sepulchre is consisting of fifteen foot in breadth five and twenty foot in length and above forty foot in height In this Chappel are always burning thirty or forty Lamps but upon Festival days more maintained by Gifts given at the death of Christians in Spain Florence and other parts to be kept continually burning and the givers of these Lamps have their names ingraven about the upper edges of them in Letters of Gold standing in a band of Gold or Silver This Chappel is inclosed with a Church and yet not that only but therewith is circled in all the forenamed holy places viz. where Christ was whipt Where he was in Prison Where his Garments were divided Where the Cross was found Where he was Crowned with Thorns Where he was Nailed on the Cross Where the Cross stood when he suffered Where the Vail of the Temple rent Where the three Maries Anointed him Where he appeared to Mary Magdalen And in brief all the notable things either about Mount Calvary or Ios●phs field of Arimathea are inclosed within the compass of this Church which was built by Q. Helena Mother to Constantine the Great she being as I have read in some Authors an English Woman and Daughter to King Coel that built Colchester Wh●ch being urged to them they denyed it I measured this Church within and found it to be 422 Fathoms about The one side of it likewise I found to be 130 Fathoms Thus much for Mount Calvary now in the midst of the City From the North-east angle to the North-west is the shortest way of the City and from the North-west angle to the South-west is as far as from the South-east to the North-east But from the South-west to the South-east which is the South-wall that standeth on the foot of Mount Sion I measured and found it to be 3775 foot which is about three quarters of a mile Upon this South side of the City is a great Iron Gate about which are laid 17 Pieces of Brass Ordinance This Gate is as great as the West Gate of the Tower of London and exceeding strong the Walls being very thick and on the South side 50 or 60 foot high The North Wall is not altogether so long but much stronger for on the North side it hath been often surprised but on the South-side never and on the East-side it is impregnable by reason of the edge of the Hill which it standeth on which is five times as high as the Wall On the North side are 25 Pieces of Brass Ordinance near the Gate which is of Iron also but what are in other places as at the corners or angles I could not come to see and inquire I durst not The East Wall containing the Gate where St. Stephen was stoned a little without and to this day called St. Stephens Gate I saw but five Pieces of Ordinance there and they were between the Gate and the ruins of Port Aurea which is to the South the West side of the City at the Gate whereof I entred at my first Arrival it is very strong likewise and hath fifteen Pieces of Ordnance lying together and all of Brass This Gate is also of Iron and this West Wall is as long as the East Wall But standeth upon the higher ground So that coming from the West to the West Wall you can see nothing but the bare Wall but upon Mount Olivet coming towards the City from the East you hav● a very goodly prospect by reason the City standeth all on the edge of the Hill To conclude Ierusalem is the strongest of all the Cities that I have yet seen in my Journey since I departed from Grand Cairo But the rest of the Country is very easy to be surprised Yet in Ierusalem are three Christians for one Turk and many Christians in the Country round about who all live poorly under the Turk Now how the Country about Ierusalem lyeth for your more easy understanding I will familiarly compare several places with some of our Native English Towns and Villages according to such true estimation as I have made of them Imagine I begin with London I mean about that distance The City of Bethlehem where our Saviour was born is from Ierusalem as Wansworth is from London I mean much that distance The plain of Mamre is from Ierusalem as Guilford is from London In which place or near to it is the City of Hebron where our Father Abraham lyeth buryed Beersheba is from Ierusalem as Alton is from London Ramoth Gilead is from Ierusalem as Reading is from London Gaza which is the South west part of Palestine is from Ierusalem as Salisbury is from London Ascalon is from Gaza North-east Ioppa is from Ierusalem as Alisbury is from London Samaria is from Ierusalem as Royston is from London The City of Nazareth is from Ierusalem as Norwich is from London From Nazareth to Mount Tabor and Hermon is five Miles North-east These two stand very near together Tabor being the greater From Tabor to the Sea Tiberias is eight Miles North-east From Ierusalem to Mount Sania is ten days Journey and North-east thence These places last spoken of beginning at Samaria I was not in but the

the Prophet where they shewed his usual place of sleeping and his house standeth so upon a hill as from thence I saw Bethlehem afar off Thence we went to an old ruinated house which they told me was Iacobs which may the better appear to be so for in the field thereto adjoining is the tomb of Rachel Iacobs Wife and some two Miles from this tomb is a Town in the same field called Bethesula the Inhabitants whereof are all Christians In this great field being between Ierusalem and Bethlehem did lie the camp of Senacherib when he besieged Ierusalem From hence we rode to the field where the Angels brought Tydings of great joy to the Shepherds which is two Miles from Bethlehem and thence we rode to Bethlehem to the M●nastery wherein were about ten Friars who welcomed me very kindly and brought me first into a great Church then into a large Entry wherein I saw the name of Mr. Hugo Stapers twice set one above another and between them both I set my name Then they guided me down the stairs into a Vault where was a Chappel built in the place of our Saviours Nativity enclosing both it and the Manger wherein Christ was laid and also the place wh●re he was presented with gifts by the wisemen Over thi● Chappel is a great Church ●uilt by Queen Helena mother to Constantine ●he Great as they say and further I saw di●ers Tombs of holy men and others Going up to the top of the Church I saw upon the ●eads the name of Mr. Hugo Stapers again in●raven which made me look the more ear●estly for some other Englishm●ns names but ●inding none I graved my name and came ●way then went we in and dined with the ●riars After Dinner they brought me to a ●lace where the Virgin Mary hid her self ●hen search was made to kill the Children ●o taking my leave of Bethlehem giving the ●riars three pieces of Gold for my Dinner ●nd my company with me being Eight in ●umber mounting our Asses we rode to the ●ell where King Davids three Captains ●etched water for him through the whole ●ost of the Philistines which standeth a little ●ay from Bethlehem towards Ierusalem ●nd hath three places to draw water up Hence went we presently back to Ierusalem entring the gate at four a clock afternoon and at five the Turks let us into the Sepulchra Sancta each of us paying nine pieces of Gold for our entrance No sooner were we in but they locked the Gates so there I stayed till 11 of the clock the next day and then came we forth Now follows what I saw in Sepulchra Sancta First I observed hanging without the Gate at least 100 lines or strings and in the Gate is a great hole whereat a little Child may easily creep in whereof demanding the reason they told me that the hole served to give victuals at for them which lie within the Church which are above 300 persons men and women all Christians and there they live continually night and day and can have no passage in or out but when the Turks open the Gate for some Pilgrim which happeneth not sometimes in 14 days Wherefore these Christian Lodgers in the Church have their whole houshold there and boarded lodgings built for them The strings hanging at the Gate have each one a Bell fastned at the lodgings and when their servants which are without bring them any meat each rings the Bell belonging to his houshold and so come accordingly each knowing hi● own Bell for the receipt of his food The several sorts of Christians which I saw in this Church I will in order describe 1. The Romans who bear the greatest sway 2. The Greeks for they be next in number to the Romans yet little better then slaves to the Turk 3. The Armenians who have been so long Servants to the Turk that having forgot their own Language they use all their Ceremonies in the Arabian Tongue The 4th sort of Christians are Nestorians who are likewise slaves to the Turk and have no other Language than the Arabian The 5th Abassines being People of the Land of Prestor Iohn The sixth Iacobites that are Circumcised Christians but slaves likewise to the Turk All these Christians in name have bought their several places in the Church and by-rooms for ease being never fewer of all these six sorts than 250 or 300 continually there lying and Praying after their manner The places where they ordinarily go to their Devotions are thus as the Roman Friars brought me to them 1. The Pillar whereat our Saviour was whipped 2. The place where he was imprisoned while they were preparing or making his Cross. 3. Where the Souldiers divided his Garments 4. Where the Cross was found by Q. Helena which is at the foot of Mount Calvary and hard by that is the Chappel of the Queen 5. The place where Chris● was Crowned with Thorns which I could not see till I give the Abassines that kept it two pieces of Silver 6. The place where the Cross being laid on the ground our Saviour was nailed unto it 7. The place on the top of Mount Calvary where the Cross stood when he suffered 8. The Rock that rent at his crucifying which is worth observation for it is slit like as if cleft with Wedges and Beetles from the top to the two third parts downwards as it were through the brow and breast of the Rocks The rent is so great in some places that a Man might hide himself in it and grows downward less and less 9. The place where the three Maries Anointed Christ after he was dead 10. Where he appeared to Mary Magdelen like a Gardiner And thence we came to the Sepulchre it self which is the last place where they use Prayers From whence I went to see the Tomb● of Baldwin and Godfrey of Bulloigne An● returning back to the Sepulcher I measure● the distance between place and place fro● five of the Clock before night until next da● at Eleven at my coming forth writing dow● all things I thought worth notice My Co●panion Mr. Iohn Burrel and I went thence 〈◊〉 the Pater Guardian to Dinner where we hear● that five English-men were arrived at the City Gates travelling towards Aleppo their names were Mr. William Bedle Preacher to the English Merchants at Aleppo Mr. Edward Abbot Servant to Sir Iohn Spencer Mr. Ieffery Kerbie Servant to Mr. P. Banning and Leigiers for them in Aleppo with two other young men Iohn Elkins and Iasper Tymme These five hearing of my being there came all to the House and though they saw not my Imprisonment nor were with me at the sight of those things in and about Ierusalem can witness that they were acquainted therewith at the Gates and with other truths beside These with my Companion Mr. Iohn Burrel I left behind in Ierusalem departing thence to see other places in the Country of Palestine But let me first tell what I observed in the Cities Situation because