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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

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

other five Englishmen that met me in Ierusalem from Galilee came through them of whom I had this Description they received of me likewise the Description of my Journey through Palestine The place where Christ fasted 40 days and 40 nights called Quarranto is from Ierusalem as Chelmsford is from London The River Iordan the very nearest part thereof is from Ierusalem as Epping is from London Iericho the nearest part of the plain thereof is from Ierusalem as Lowton Hall Sr. Robert Wroths house is from London The Lake of Sodom and Gomorrah is from Ierusalem as Gravesend is from Lon-don The River Iordan runneth into the Lake and there is swall●wed up which is one of the greatest secrets in my mind in the World that a fresh water should run continually into this salt Lake and have no issue out but there is lost And the Lake continuing still so salt as no weight of any reasonable substance will sink into it but floateth upon it so that a Man or dead Beast will never go down And further note that what fifth soever was brought into it by the River Iordan or any other substance it swims continually upon the water and being tossed thereon by the Weather in time it becometh a congealed froth which being cast upon the Banks and there dryed by the extream heat of the Sun becomes black like Pitch which in that Country is called Bitumen whereof I have brought some with me from thence This Lake is about eight or nine Miles broad and about a 100 Miles long from the North where the River Iordan falleth into it to the South-ward and hath no farther issue The fields where the Angels brought Tydings to the Shepherds lye from Ierusalem as Greenwich from London Mount Olivet lyeth from Ierusalem as Bow from London Bethania is from Ierusalem as Black-wall from London Bethphage is from Ierusalem as Mile-end from London The Valley Gethsemany is from Ierusalem as Ratcliff Fields lye from London Brook Cedron is from Ierusalem as the Ditch without Algate from London Mount Sion is near adjoyning to Ierusalem as Southwark to London Thus have I described the City of Ierusalem as it is now built with all the notable places therein and near the same and the Country about it By which comparisons you may well understand the situation of most places near it And thereby you may perceive that it was but a small Country and a very little plat of ground which the Israelites possessed in the Land of Canaan and is now very barren For within fifteen Miles from Ierusalem it is wholly barren full of Rocks and stony And unless it be about the Plain of Iericho I know not any part of the Country at present fruitful What is hath been in time past I refer you to the Holy Scriptures My opinion is that when it was fruitful and a Land that flowed with Milk and Hony in those days God Blessed it and that then they followed his Commandments but now being inhabited by Infidels that prophane the name of Christ and live in a filthy and beastly manner God cursed it and it is made so barren that I could get no bread when I came near it For one night as I lodged short of Ierusalem at a place called in the Arabian Tongue Cuda Chenaleb I sent my Moor to a house not far from the place where we had pitched our Tents to get some bread and he brought word there was none to be had and that the man of that house did never ●at bread in all his life but only dryed Dates nor any of his houshold whereby you may partly perceive the barrenness of the Country at this day only as I suppose by the curse that God laid upon the same For they use the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah very much in that Country so that the poor Christians there are glad to marry their Daughters at twelve years of Age unto Christians lest the Turks should ravish them And to conclude there is not that sin in the World but it is used amongst those Infidels who now inhabit therein and yet it is called Terra Sancta and in the Arabian Tongue Cuthea which is the Holy Land bearing the name only and no more For all holiness is banished from thence by those Thieves filthy Turks and Infidels that inhabit the same Having my Certificate sealed by the Quadrian and a Letter delivered me to shew that I had washed my self in the River of Iordan I departed from Ierusalem in the company of the Moor that helpt to get me out of Prison leaving Edward Abbot Ieffery Kerbie Iohn Elkins Iasper Tymme and Mr. Bedle the Preacher whom I met there by chance behind me in Ierusalem and which grieved me most the Gentleman of Middleborough Mr. Iohn Burrel that I met with at Grand Cairo who had born me company thence to Ierusalem forsook me there and stayed with the other five Englishmen and so was I left alone to the mercy of my Moor that never left me till I came to Grand Cairo Now what happened to me in my Travelling from Ierusalem to Cairo and from thence to Alexandria where my ship lay I will hereafter declare Departing from Ierusalem we got safe to Rama and from thence to Ascalon and so to Gaza which lyeth upon the Borders of the Desarts of Arabia At one of those two places I hoped to have some passage by Water either to Alexandria or to Damietta but failing thereof I was in a maze and knew not whether I were best go back again to Ierusalem or put my self desperately into the hands of the Wild Arabians to be by them conducted to Grand Cairo One of those courses I must take there was no hope of passage and yet I hoped I should find it at Ioppa And for that cause stayed at Gaza and sent my Moor to Ioppa to seek for passage but there was none to be had At last considering with my self that my haste into Egypt was great for I had left my man Waldred in Cairo with my stock of 1200 l. and my ship lay in the Road of Ale●andria with sixty men in her and whether they would depart without me or no I knew not For when I went from them to go up to the River of Nilus to Cairo I had no intent to go for Ierusalem I was forced in this extremity to make away all the mony I had about me and to put my self into the hands of two wild Arabians who undertook to carry me and my Moor without whom I durst not go to the City of Cairo in four days if I would pay them 24 Sultans of Gold when I came to the Materia near Cairo and upon that Condition they would deliver me safely there otherwise would carry me Prisoner with them or cut my Throat And so agreeing with them by my Moor who sp●ke for me and withal warranted me to go safely swearing that he would not leave me by any means the two Wild

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

Land containeth Four Regions Idumea Judea Samaria and Galilee Idumea beginneth at Mount Cassius or as some will at the Lake Sirbon reaching to the Eastward of Judea The Chief Cities are Maresa Rhinocorura Rapha Antedon Ascalon Azotus and Gaza Maresa was the birth place of th● Prophet Micah Near unto this Town Juda● Macchabeus overthrew Gorgias Rhinocorura● Rapha and Antedon are Towns of no grea● note Of Ascalon Sir George Sandis writeth thus in his Travels That it is a place now of no great Reckoning more than that the Turk doth keep there a Garrison Venerable heretofore amongst the Heathen for the Temple of Dagon and the Birth of Semiram● begotten of the Goddess Decreta who enflamed with the love of a certain youth that Sacrificed unto her and having by him a Daughte● ashamed of her Incontinency put him away and Exposed the Child to the desarts and confounded with sorrow threw her self into a lake replenished with fish adjoyning to the City this Decreta is said to be that Dagon the Idol of the Agrotonites mentioned in the Scripture which signifieth the first of sorrow who had her Temple close by the Lake with her Image in the figure of a fish excepting the Face which resembled a Woman But the Infant nourished by Doves which brought her Milk from the pails of the Pastures after became the wife of Ninus and Queen of Assyria whereupon she was called Semiramis which signifieth a dove in the Syrian tongue in Memorial whereof the Babylonians did bear a Dove in their Ensign● confirmed by the Prophesie of Jeremiah who foretelling of the devastation of Judea adviseth them to flee from the Sword of the Dove Azotes where was a sumptuous Temple built to the Lieutenant to Demetrius eight miles beyond that stands Acharon or Ekron where Beelzebub was worshipped to whom Ahaziah sent to enquire of his health Lastly Gaza or Aza one of the five Principal Cities belonging to the Palestines called Philistines in Scripture Gaza signifieth strong and in the Persian language a Treasure so said to be called by Cambyses who Invading Egypt sent thither the riches Purchased in that War it was also called Constantia by the Emperour Constantine first famous for the Acts of Sampson who lived about the time of the Trojan Wars whose force and fortunes are said to have given to the Poets their Invention of Hercules who lived not long before him And it was afterwards famous for two Wounds there received by Alexander the great and was then counted the Chief of Syria Also there lyeth Joppa now Jafta a Famous Mart Town and a good Haven where Jonah took ship to fly to Tarsus where Peter raised Dorcas from death to life and where he lying in the House of one Simon a Tanner was in a vision taught the Conversion of the Gentiles This City they report to have been built before the Flood Here Reigned Cephcus the son of Phenix whose Daughter Andromeda was by Perseus delivered from a Sea Monster some of whose Bones the people had wont to shew to Strangers even till the Flourishing of the Romans Here lyeth Gath also the Country of the huge Giant Goliah Judea is the Chiefest part of Palestina and is of the same extent now as it was when it was the Kingdom of Judea and entertained the two great and Puissant Tribes of Juda and Benjamin It lyeth between the Midland Sea and Lacus Asphaltites or the Dead-Sea and betwixt Samaria and Idumea It took this name from the Tribe of Judah in which lyeth the once famous City Jerusalem Besides Jerusalem also there are in this Country divers others Town and famous Cities as Jericho Turris Stratonis afterward named Caesarea Hebron formerly now Arbea also Mambre and Carioth that is to say a Town of four Men the Birth-place of Judas Iscariot who betrayed our Saviour Jesus Christ Emaus and divers others and Beyon Jordan Markherus a Town with a strong Castle here stood the Towns of Sodom and Gomorrah which for their Sodomy and Abomination were consumed with Fire from Heaven and lye now buried in that cursed Lake Asphaltites so named of the Bitumen which it Vomiteth called also the Dead-Sea perhaps in that it nourisheth no living Creature or for his heavy Waters hardly to be moved with any Wind so extream Salt that whatsoever is thrown thereinto not easily Sinketh Vespasian for a trial caused divers to be cast in bound Hand and Foot who Floated Aloft as if supported by some Spirit They say that Birds Flying over it fall in as if Inchanted or Suffocated with the Poyson of the ascending Vapors Samaria lyeth in the midst between Judea and Galilea the Land is so called from the Metropolis Samaria Built by Omri King of Israel and now called Sebasta the Towns in ●t are Sichem afterwards Neapolis Capernaum Betzaida and Chorazin Galilea lyeth between Mount Labanus and Samaria and is divided into upper and lower Galilea upper Galilea bordered upon Tyrus called otherwise Galilea-Gentium or the Heathenish Galilea Lower Galilea lyeth near unto the Lake of Tiberius and to Nazareth In it are the Towns of Naim Cana Nazareth and Gadara The Holy Land is seated between two Seas and the River Jordan it hath within it many Navigable Lakes and Meers abounding with Fish the River Jordan is called by the Hebrews Jordan and runneth through the midst of this Country dividing it into two Parts St. Jerome Writeth that this River Springeth out of two Fountains not far distant one from the other the one called Jor the other Dan shooting out like two Horns which meeting together make the great River Jordan The Chief Mountains in the Holy Land are Mount Hermon lying in the East part thereof and Mount Tabor in the West both of them being very Great and High so that the other Hills about them are but Arms and Branches of them For the Mountains Ebal Betheron Mispa or Mospoa and Bethel are reckoned under Mount Hermon Gilboa Gerezin Saron and Mount-Carmel by the Sea side are counted under Mount Tabor There are also about Jerusalem Mount Sion Moriah Mount Olivet Mount Calvary and others with goodly Woods and Forrests full of all kind of Deer and many Wild Beasts In this Land especially in and about Jerusalem there were many Stately and Magnificent Buildings as Namely Mons Domus and the Castle of the Jebusites into which King David brought the Ark of the Lord where it remained till Solomons Temple was Finished The remainder and ruines of these Buildings are yet to be seen to this Day yea it is said that in the very place the Lord Christ Eat the Paschal Lamb with his Disciples There are also the Sepulchres of David and other Kings of Judah and the House of David which yet retaineth the Name of Davids Tower Upon Mount Moriah are to be seen some remainders of Mello Above all we must call to mind the most Excellent and Beautiful Temple of King Solomon upon which One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Men wrought Seven

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