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A05597	The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveying of forty eight kingdomes ancient and modern; twenty one rei-publicks, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands. ... divided into three bookes: being newly corrected, and augmented in many severall places, with the addition of a table thereunto annexed of all the chiefe heads. Wherein is contayed an exact relation of the lawes, religions, policies and governments of all their princes, potentates and people. Together with the grievous tortures he suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine ... And of his last and late returne from the Northern Isles, and other places adjacent. By William Lithgow.; Most delectable, and true discourse, of an admired and painefull peregrination from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affricke	Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?	1640 (1640)	STC 15714; ESTC S108592	306,423	530

Walls which were built by Sultan Selim So that thereby the difference of the situation is not so great though a part thereof be removed but a man may boldly affirme that the most part of this City is builded on that place where the first Ierusalem was as may truly appeare and is made manifest by these Mountains mentioned in the Scriptures whereupon Ierusalem is both situate and environed about who reserve their names to this day and are still seene and knowne by the same as Mount Syon Mount Calvary Mount Moriah and Mount Olivet The forme of the situation of Ierusalem is now like to a Hart or Triangle the one point whereof looketh East extending downward almost to the Valley of Iehosaphat which divideth Ierusalem and Mount Olivet The second head or point bendeth out South-west upon Syon bordering neere to the Valley of Gehinnon The third corner lieth on Mount Moriah toward the North and by West having its prospect to the buriall place of the Kings of Israel The Walles are high and strongly builded with Saxo quadrato which adorne Ierusalem more then any thing within it the Holy Grave excepted It is of circuit about three miles and a halfe of our measure As touching the former glory of this City I will not meddle withall nor yet describe sith the Scriptures so amply manifest the same concerning the lamentable destruction of it I refer that to the famous Historiographer Iosephus who largely discour●eth of many hundred thousands famished and put to the Sword within this multipotent City by Vespasian and Titus his sonne being the messengers of Gods just judgements which by his computation did amount beyond the number of eleven hundred thousands But it is to be understood they were all at one time in Ierusalem but came up by turns and times from the circumjacent Countries about by thousands and as they were cut off so their numbers were aye renewed againe as necessity required This City hath oft bin conquered by enemies First by Nabuchodanezzar the Assirian King Secondly by the Greekes and Alexander the Great and also marvellously afflicted by Antiochus Thirdly it was taken in by Pompeius Fourthly destroyed by Vespatian and Titus Fiftly it was re-edified by Adrian the Emperour and wonne againe by Gosdroes the Persian King Sixtly it was overcome by Homor Califf the successour of Mahomet Seventhly by the great Souldan of Aegypt and by Godfrey du Bulloine a Christian Prince Eightly by Saladine the Caliph of Aegypt and Damascus Anno 1187. who reserved successively the Signiory thereof for a long time And lastly it was surprized by Sultan Selim or Solyman the Emperour of the Turkes Anno 1517. joyning the Holy Land together with Aegypt to his Empire who fortified the same being by Infidels detained to this day and by likely-hood shall keep it to the consummation of the world unlesse God of his mercy deale otherwise then the hopes of mans weake judgement can expect Whence truely I may say that when fortune would change friendship she dis-leagueth conditionall amity with the senslesse litargy of foule ingratitude This City is now governed by a Sanzack or Subbassaw being placed there by the Bassaw of Damaseus whose Deputy hee is the other being chiefe Ruler under the Grand Signior over all the Holy Land and the halfe of Syria There is a strong Garrison kept alwayes in Ierusalem to withstand the Arabish invasions consisting of eight hundred Souldiers Turkes and Moores who are vigilant in the night and circumspect in the day time so that none can enter the Towne without their knowledge nor yet goe forth without their triall This is a memorable note and worthy of observation that at that time when the Cities of Ierusalem and Antiochia were recovered from the Pagans by the meanes of Godfrey of Bolloigne the Pope of Rome that then was was called Vrbanus the Patriarch of Ierusalem Heraclius and the Roman Emperour Fredericke And at the same time and long thereafter when Ierusalem was re-inthralled and seized upon by Saladine the Popes name was Vrbanus the Patriarch of Ierusalem Heraclius and the Roman Emperour Fredericke After Herod the Idumean sonne to Antipater in whose time Christ was born Archelaus Agrippa Herod who imprisoned Peter and Iames and was eaten of vermine in whose time Christ suffered and Agrippaminor before whom Paul pleaded the last King of the Iews had raigned being strange Kings in the last Kings time Ierusalem was overthrowne and the Kingdome made a Province of the Roman Empire Anno 37. After which desolation the Iews were over all the World dispersed but afterward in a zealous consideration were banished from the most part of the Christian Kingdomes out of France they were rejected by Philip the Faire Anno 1307. out of Spain by Ferdinand the Catholicke 1492. out of Portugale by Emanuell 1497. out of England by Edward the fifth 1290. out of Naples and Sycilia by Charles the fifth 1539. Yet they are found in great numbers in divers parts of Germany Poland and in some Cities of Italy as Venice and her Territories Florence and the jurisdiction thereof the principalities of Parma Mantua Modena Vrbino and their extending limits and finally Rome besides her Ecclesiasticall papacie wherein there are no lesse than twenty thousand of them They are also innumerable over all the Turkish Dominions who so misregard and hate them for the crucifying of Christ that they use to say in detestation of any thing I would I might die a Iew neither will they permit a Iew to turn Turk unlesse hee first be baptized And yet live where they will the most part of them are the wealthiest people in the world having subtile and sublime spirits Now for the severall Kings and Rulers of Iudah and Israel beginning at Moses the Judges of the Iews were 16 of whom Samuel was the last at which time the people desired to have a King like unto other Nations The Kings of the Iews were three Saul David and Salomon And the Kings of Iudah were twenty Zedechias being last in whose time Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Ierusalem Of the Kings of Israel there were seventeene of whom Oseas was the last in whose time the Israelites were carried captives into Assyria by King Salmanasser The Dukes or Governours of Iewry were fifteene of which Ioannes Hircanius was the last Governour of Iudea which descended from the stock of David During the government of which Captains after the Babylonian captivity the Jewish Kingdome was plagued on both sides by the Kings of Aegypt and Syria who slaughtered their people ransacked their Cities made havock of their goods and compelled them to eat forbidden flesh and sacrifice to Idols To reforme which enormities Matathias and his five sonnes valiantly resisted and overcame the impetuous fury of Antiochus Epiphanes and his Syrians Whereupon the Iews chose Iudas sirnamed Machabeus for their Captaine one of the Worlds nine Worthies who thought not of the line of David was yet of the

not bin redeemed certainely their friends and followers who were thicke flocking together would have cut us all off before we could have attained to Ierusalem At last wee beheld the prospect of Ierusalem which was not onely a contentment to my weary body but also being ravished with a kinde of unwonted rejoycing the teares gushed from my eyes for too much ioy In this time the Armenians began to sing in their owne fashion Psalmes to praise the Lord and I also sung the 103 Psalme all the way till we arrived neere the wals of the City where wee ceased from our singing for feare of the Turkes The Sunne being passed to his nightly Repose before our arrivall we found the Gates locked and the Keyes carried up to the Bashaw in the Castle which bred a common sorrow in the company being all both hungry and weary yet the Caravan intreated earnestly the Turkes within to give us over the Wals some victuals for our money shewing heavily the necessity wee had thereof but they would not neither durst attempt such a thing In this time the Guardian of the Monastery of Cordeleirs who remayneth there to receive Travailers of Christendome who having got newes of our late arrivall came and demanded of the Caravan if any Frankes of Europe were in his Society and hee said onely one Then the Guardian called me and asked of what nation I was of and when I told him hee seemed to be exceeding glad yet very sorrowfull for our misfortune Hee having knowne my distresse returned and sent two Friers to me with Bread Wine and Fishes which they let over the Wall as they thought in a secret place but they were espied and on the morrow the Guardiano payed to the Subbashaw or Sanzacke a great fine being a hundred Piasters thirty pounds sterling otherwise both hee and I had bin beheaded which I confesse was a deare bought supper to the gray Friers and no lesse almost to me being both in danger of my Life for starving and then for receivi●g of food therefore suspected for a traytor for the Turkes alleadged he had taken in munition from me and the other Christians to betray the City this they doe oft for a lesser fault then that was onely to get Bribes and money from the Grey Friers which daily stand in fear of their lives Anno 1612 upon Palme-Sunday in the morning wee entered into Ierusalem and at the Gate wee were particularly searched to the effect wee carried in no Furniture of Armes nor powder with us and the poore Armenians notwithstanding they are slaves to Turkes behoved to render their weapons to the Keepers such is the fear they have of Christians And my name was written up in the Clarkes Booke at the Port that my tribute for the Gate and my seeing of the Sepulchre might be payed at one time together before my finall departure thence The Gates of the City are of iron outwardly and above each Gate are brazen Ordnance planted for their defence Having taken my leave of the Caravan and the Company who went to lodge with their own Patriarch I was met and received with the Guardian and twelve Friers upon the streets each of them carrying in their hands a burning wax Candle and one for mee also who received me joyfully and singing all the way to their Monastery Te Deum Laudamus they mightily rejoyced that a Christian had come from such a far Countrey as Scotia to visit Ierusalem Where being arrived they forth-with brought me to a Roome and there the Guardian washed my right foot with water and his Vicar my left and done they kissed my feet so did also all the twelve Friers that stood by But when they knew afterward that I was no Popish Catholicke it sore repented them of their labour I found here ten Frankes newly come the neerest way from Venice hither sixe of them were Germans noble Gentlemen and they also good Protestants who were wonderfull glad to heare mee tell the Gardian flatly in his face I was no Roman Catholicke nor never thought to be The other foure Frankes were Frenchmen two of them Parisians old men the other two of Provance all foure being Papists with nine other Commercing Frankes also that dwelt in Syria and Cyprus most of them being Venetians who were all glad of mee shewing themselves so kind so carefull so loving and so honourable in all respects that they were as kind Gentlemen as ever I met withall especially the Germains Such is the love of strangers when they meete in forraine and remote places They had also in high respect the adventures of my halfe yeares travaile East and beyond Ierusalem troubling mee all the while wee were together to shew them the rare Discourses of my long two yeares survey of Turkey but especially of my furthest sights in the East of Asia and were a●wayes in admiration that I had no fellow Pilgrime in my long Perigrination The Sixt Part. NOw come my swift pac'd feete to Syons seat And faire Jerusalem here to relate Her sacred Monuments and those sweet places Were fil'd with Prophets and Apostles faces Christs Crib at Bethleem and Maries Cave Calver and Golgotha the Holy Grave Deep Adraes valley Hebrons Patriarch'd Tombe Sunke Lazars pit whence he rose from earths wombe Judeas bounds and Desarts that smoaking Lake Which orient folkes doe still for Sodome take Thence view'd I Jordan and his mooddy streames Whence I a Rod did bring to Royall James The lumpe faln Jericho and th' Olive Mount With Gethesamaine where Christ to pray was wont The Arabian Desarts then Egypt land I toyling saw with Nylus swelling strand Where for discourse the seuenth Part shall thee show What thou mayst learn and what by sight I know Of matchlesse Egypt and her unmatch'd bounds That twice a yeere in growth of grain abounds IErusalem is now called by the Turks Kuddish which is in their Language a Holy Citie It was first called Moriah of Moria one of the seven heads of Syon where Abraham would have sacrificed Isaac Gen. 22. 2. and upon his offering it was called Ierusalem Genes 14. 18. It was also named Salem where Sem or Melchisedeck dwelt and Ierusalem was also called Iebus 2 sam 24. 16. And it is the place where Salomon was commanded to build the Temple 2 Chron. 3. 1. which afterward was termed Hieron Salomonis whence came by corruption that word Hieros●lyma David also in the Psalmes gave it divers names And Ierusalem in the Arabick Tongue is also called Beyt almo kadas Beyt signifieth the House almo kadas viz. of Saints Ierusalem standeth in the same place where old Ierusalem stood but not so populous neither in each respect of breadth or length so spacious for on the South side of Ierusalem a great part of Mount Syon is left without which was anciently the heart of the old City and they have taken on the North side now both Mount Calvary and the holy Grave within the

inferiour to the first and superiour to the second And although some Authors would have him but to repaire the second Temple yet it is most certaine he did even from the foundation raise its greatest beauty and glory For this Herod the Ascolinite was an Edomite stranger or Idumean who having gotten the Kingdome contrary to the Law of Moses and created King of Iewry by Octavius Augustus and knowing these people to be offended therewithall to procure their favour did build to them a third Temple This was it in which our Saviour and his Apostles did daily Preach and was set on fire by Titus the tenth day of August on which day likewise the first Temple was burnt by Nebuchadnezzar And lastly there is another great Temple builded in the same place by Sultan Selim Seliman reserved by Turkes and highly regarded for that respect they carry to Salomon neare the which or within whose Courts no Christian may enter under the paine of loosing his head This present Temple hath two incircling Courts invironed with high wals hauing two entires in the inner Court standeth the Temple that is composed of five circling and large Rotundotes rising high and incorporate from the ground with round tops The outward fabrick whereof we cannot see save on Mount Olivet which is over against the Citie and twice as high as Mount Sion These are all the monuments which in one day I saw within Ierusalem but as for Mount Calvary and the Holy Grave I saw them afterward which in their owne place shall be orderly touched As we were spending that day in these sights the Guardian had prepared one hundred souldiers sixty Hors-men and forty Foot-men to take with him the day following for his conduction to Iordan and the Mountaine in the Wildernesse where Christ fasted which is his usuall custome once every yeare between Palme Sunday and Easter returning again before Good-friday These places cannot be viewed save onely at that time neither may a Pilgrime goe along with the Souldiers unlesse hee give the value of seven Crownes or Piasters as a propine unto the Lievtenant being forty two shillings sterling and if the Traveller will not goe to that charge hee may stay there till their return which I would not wish him to doe if possibly hee may spare the money for the sight of Sodome and Iordans sake That same night after supper The Guardian demanded of us Travellers if wee would goe with him to see these memorable and singular things upon the former condition To whom wee answered in a generall consent wee would and so payed our moneys Early upon Tuesday morning all the Friers and Pilgrims being mounted on Mules save onely pedestriall I and two M●les loaden with our provision of victuals we departed from the City about nine of the clocke in the forenoone keeping our faces South-east and leaving Bethphage and By●hania on our left hand wee had pleasant travelling for seven miles but in the afternoon wee entred in a barren and desart Countrey till Sun-setting where at last wee arrived at a standing Well and there refreshing our selves and the beasts wee reposed till two hou●es within night After that the Captaine had cryed Ca●e th●anga that is match away we set forward being well gua●ded round about with our Keepers because we entred into a dangerous way and a most desolate and ●abulous 〈◊〉 In all this deformed Countrey wee saw neither House nor Village for it is altogether desartuous and inhabited onely by wild Beasts and naked Arabians Before wee came neere to Sodom and Gomorrah by seven miles for so wee behooved to passe by the East end of it before wee could arrive at that place of Iordan which wee intended we I say incountred with such deep sandy ground that the Mulets were not able to carry our Company through Whereupon they all dismounted wrestling and wading above the middle part of their bodies and sometimes falling in over their heads they were in great danger of perishing although the robustnesse of my body carried mee through on my feete relieving also divers times some of these Friers and Pilgrimes that were almost choaked and over-whelmed with Sand but not for lacke of Wine Even in the middest of this turmoyling paine the night being darke the unwelcomed Arabs environed and invaded us with a storme of Arrows which they sent from the tops of little hard hils whereupon they stood for knowing the advantage of the ground they took opportunity to give the more fearfull assaults yet they prevailed nothing although they wounded some of our souldiers such was the resolute Courage of our valorous Defendants True it is that in all my travailes I was never so sore fatigated nor more fearefully indangered as I was that night A little after midnight these Savages leaving us and we leaving our troublesome way wee accoasted the Lake of Sodome and marched along the marine shoare above nine miles before we came to Iordan This Lake is caled Lacus Asphaltites it yieldeth a kinde of 〈◊〉 named Bitumen Asphaltum the which bituminous savour no living thing can indure And now Mare mortuum a Sea because it is salt and mortuum or dead for that no living thing breeds therein and more properly for this cause called the dead Sea because of it selfe it is unmoveable such is the Leprosie and stability of the water It is also called so because if a Bird flie over it she presently falleth downe therein dead And as Salomon reporteth of it Wisdome 10. 7. it smoketh continually from whence proceedeth filthy Vapours which deforme the fields lying about for certaine miles as it were blasted scorched and made utterly barren this smoake I take onely to be but the exhalation of Iordan For this River falling into it and there ending his course the two contrary natures cannot agree the one being a filthy puddle and the other a pure water as I shall more approbably record This Lake is foure score miles in length and according to its intervalling Circuite sometimes two three foure or five miles in breadth yet the body thereof bending directly South-west keepeth a glassie course till it salute the austere conspicuosity of the fabulous and stony Desarts being compassed with the Rockes of Arabia Petrea on the South On the North with the sandy Hils of the Wildernesse of Iudea on the West with the steepy Mountaines of Arabia deserta and on the East with the plaine of Iericho How commeth it to passe therefore that the fresh running flood of Iordan falling evermore into this bounded Sea that the Lake it selfe never diminisheth nor increaseth but alwayes standeth at one fulnesse neither hath it any issuing forth nor reboundeth backwards on the plaine of Iericho which is one of the greatest Wonders in the World Wherefore as I have said it must needs either exhale to the Clouds or otherwise runne downe to Hell for if it ranne under the Rockes and so burst in the Desarts it would soone

also the Tree to the which our Saviour was bound whiles Annas was making himselfe ready to leade him to Caiphas but that I will not believe for that Tree groweth yet being an Olive Tree They shewed us also the house where Saint Peter was imprisoned when his fetters were shaken off his legs and the prison doores cast open and hee relieved And where Zebedeus the Father of Iames and Iohn dwelt which are nothing but a lump of Ruines Thence we came to the decayed Lodging of Caiphas without the City upon the Mount Syon whereupon there is a Chappell builded and at the entry of that little Domo wee saw the stone on which the Cock crew when Peter denied Christ. Within the same place is the stone that was rolled to the Sepulcher doore of our Saviour being now made an Altar to the Abasines These Abasines are naturally born black and of them silly Religious men who stay at Ierusalem in two places to 〈◊〉 heer at Caiphas House on mount Syon and the other Convent on mount Moriah where Abraham would haue sacrificed Isaac They wear on their heads flat round Caps of a blackish colour and on their bodies long gownes of white Dimmety or linnen cloath representing Ephods the condition of themselves being more devout than understanding the true grounds of their devotion blind zeale and ignorance overswaying their best light of knowledge They being a kinde of people which came from Prester Iehans dominions And within that Chappel they shewed us 〈…〉 wherein say they Christ was 〈◊〉 the night before he was brought to the Judgement Hall Upon the same side of Syon we saw the place where Christ did institute the Sacraments and not far hence a decayed House where say they the Holy Ghost discended vppon the Apostles and also the Sepultures of David and his sonne Salomon Over the which their is a Moskie wherein no Christian may enter to see these monuments For the Turkes doe great Reverence to most of all the ancient Prophets of the old Testament From thence wee returned and entred in via dolorosa the dolorous way by which our Lord and Saviour passed when hee went to be crucified carrying the Crosse upon his Back And at the end of the same street say they the Souldiers met Simon of Cyrene and compelled him to helpe Christ to beare his Crosse when hee fainted Pilats Judgement Hall is altogether ruinated having but onely betweene the two sides of the Lane an old Arch of stone under the which I passed standing full in the high Way Here they shewed us the place where Christ first took up his Crosse and on the top of that Arch wee saw that place called Gabbatha where Jesus stood when Pilat said to the Iews Ecce homo A little below this they brought us to the Church of Saint Anna where say they the Virgin Mary was born And going down another narrow Lane they pointed into a House and said hee Dives the rich Glutton dwelt who would not give to Lazarus the Crums of Bread that fell from his Table this I suspend amongst many other things for all hold it to be a Parable and not a History And although it were a History who can demonstrate the particular place Ierusalem having been so often transformed by alterations Th●s I must need say with such lying Wonders these flattering Friers bring Strangers into a wonderfull admiration and although I rehearse all I saw there yet I wil not believe al onely publishing them as things in different some whereof are frivolous and others some what more credible But as I said before I will make no or very small distinction in the Relation From thence we came without the Eastern gate standing on a low Banke called the daughter of Syon that over-toppeth the valley of Iehosaphat unto an immoveable stone upon the which they said St. Stephen was stoned to death the first Martyr of the Christian faith and the faithfull fore-runner of many noble followers As we returned to our own Convent they brought us to Mount Moriah and shewed us the place where Abraham offered up Isaac which is in the custody of Nigroes or Aethiopians to whom each of us payed ten Madins of Brasse the common coine of Ierusalem for our going in to that place And the other monastry that these Abasines detaine is on mount Sinay in the Desarts where the body of S. Katherine lyeth buried which is richly maintained and strongly kept by the Aethiopian Emperor There are 200. Religious Abasines in it and 100 souldiers to guard them from the incursions of Arabs who continually molest them because Mount Sinay standeth in the midst of that desolate Arabian wildernesse and far from any civill or inhabited place being distant from Ierusalem above 70 English miles Next they shewed us the place where Iesus sayd Daughters of Ierusalem mourne not for me c. And neer unto this where the Virgin Mary fell into an agony when Iesus passed by carrying his Crosse Also not farre hence we beheld the place where as they say Iesus said to his mother woman behold thy Sonne and to S. Iohn behold thy mother Ascending more upward they shewed us the House of Veronica Sancta and said that our Saviour going by her door all in a sweat to Mount Calvary shee brought him a Napkin to wipe his face which he received and gave it to her again in which say they the print of his face remaineth to this day and is to be seen at Rome It is also said to be in a Town in Spain and another of them at Palermo in Sicilia wherefore I believe the one as well as the rest So out of one if Papists can make three By it they would denote Heavens Deitie But O! not so these three revolv'd in one Points forth the Pope from him his tripled Crown He weav'd these Napkins lying rear'd his seat For which this number makes his number great As concerning the Temple of the most High built by Salomon the description of which edifice yee may read in the 3 of Kings it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar at the taking of Ierusalem Anno Mundi 4450. Secondly it was rebuilded again by the commandement of Cyrus King of Persia after the Iews returned from the Captivity of Babylon but not answerable to the state and magnificence of the former For besides the poverty and smalnesse of it there wanted five things which were in the other First the Ark of the Covenant Secondly the pot of Manna Thirdly the rod of Aaron Fourthly the two Tables of the Law written by the finger of God And fifthly the fire of the Sacrifice which came down from Heaven which were the Symbols and ●adges of Gods favour and mercy shown to them and their forefathers in his covenant of Love This Temple afterward growing in decay Herod the Great that killed the young Infants for Christs sake who suffered for him before he suffered for them built another much

night Bethleem is the pleasantest Village in all Iudea situated on a pretty Hill and five English miles from Ierusalem It produceth commodiously an infinite number of Olive and Figge-trees some Cornes and a kinde of white wine wherewith we were furnished all the time of our abode there also in and about Ierusalem In our way as we came backe to the City the next day following the Viccario shewed us a little Moskee kept by Turkes in which said he was the Tombe of Rachell Iacobus wife who died in that place as shee was travelling from Padan-Aram with her husband Iacob The ruines also of a house where Habacuk the Prophet dwelt a Turpentine tree growing yet by the way side under the which say they th Virgin Mary was wont to repose her selfe in traveling Wee saw also a naturall rocke in the high way whereon say they Elias oft slept and is not ashamed to say that the hollow dimples of the stone was onely made by the impression of his b●dy as though the tender flesh of man could leave the print of his portracture on a hard stone And not farre from this hee shewed us the place where the Starre appeared to the wise men after they had left Herod to seeke for the Saviour of mankind Approaching Mount Syon we saw a quadrangled dry pond wherein say they Beersheba the Wife of Vriah was Washing when David looked forth from the toppe of his Pallace gazing on the aspect of his lust gave the Bridle of reason fast tyed in the hands of temptation and becomming subject to the subtilty of sinne was bewitched by her beauty wherewith corruption triumphed in Nature and Godlinesse decreased in voluntary consent and from a royall Prophet fell in the bloudy lists of Murther and Adultery Over against this place on the North side of Gehinnon wee saw the ruines of a Palace wherein David dwelt which had beene one of the Angles of the ancient Citty and standeth at the division of the valley Ennon which compassed as a Ditch the North part of Mount Syon even to the Valley Iehosophat and so Eastward being now filled up with fragments of old walles and the Valley of Gehinnon lying West and East bordering along the South side of Syon till it ioyne also with the narrow Valley of Iehosophat which invironeth the East and devalling parts of Ierusalem Neere to this demolished tower we saw the habitation of Simeon who hauing seene the blessed Messias said Now Lord let thy Servant depart in peace for mine eyes haue seene thy Salvation And now lastly upon the twelfth day of my abode there early on Thursday morning the Guardiano twelue Friers and Iohn Baptista because that was the last day of ●eeing any more Monuments or was to be seene there accompanied us as wee issued at the South-gate of the City wee came to a place on the skirt of Syon where say they Peter after his deniall of Christ his Master wept bitterly Descending by the side of that same Hill we crossed the Valley Gehinnon and came to Acaldema the Potters ●ield or field of blood which is a little foure-squared Roome oppositive to the devaling side of the South-falling Syon three parts whereof are invironed with a naturall Rocke and the fourth square bordering with the Valley is made up of stone worke The top is covered and hath three holes where through they let the dead Christians fall downe for it is a buriall place of Pilgrimes to this day As I looked downe I beheld a great number of dead corpes some whereof had white winding sheets and newly dead lying one aboue an other in a lumpe yeelding a pestilent smell by reason they were not covered with earth saue onely the artchitecture of a high vault which maketh that in a long time the corpes cannot putrifie and rot Neare unto this Campo we entred into a dark Cave where say they the Apostles hid themselues when Christ was taken At the foote of the same valley wee came to Ponto N●hemia in which place the Iewes did hide the Holy Fire when they were taken captives to Babylon walking more downeward toward the Valley of Iehosophat wee saw a darke Celler under the ground without windowes wherein said the Guardian the Id●latrous Iewes made a sacrifice of their children unto a brazen Image called Moloch which being made hot they inclosed them in the hollownesse thereof and so slue them and lest their crying should have moved any compassion towards them they made a thundring noise with Drums and other Instruments whereupon the place was called Tophet mentioned in Ier. 7. 31. Hence wee came to the Poole of Siloam in which wee washed our selves the water whereof falleth down through a Rock from the City above running straight to the Valley of Iehosophat and there we saw also the remnant of that sacked Towre of Siloam Neare to this wee saw a Fountaine where say they the Virgin Mary used oft to wash the Babes cloaths and linnen clouts From thence wee crossed the Brooke Cedron which guttereth through the Valley of Iehosophat and is always dry unlesse it be in December when the rain falleth there impetuously for a moneth together which is all the Winter they have in these parts during which time none may labour nor travell but forced to keepe themselves within Houses Having past I say this Brook we came to the Tombes of Absolom and Zacharias and the Cave wherein Saint Iames was wont to hide himselfe from the persecuting Iews Ascending more upward on the Hill in the way of Bythinia wee saw these places where Iudas hanged himselfe over which there is a Vault erected like a halfe Moone in memory of his selfe murther and hard by they shewed us where the withered Fig-tree grew the place being inclosed within a high stone Dike and halfe a mile thence wee came to the ruined house of Simon the Leper Arriving at Bythania we saw the Castle and Tombe of Lazarus on whom Christ shewed a Miracle in raising him from the Grave after hee had been foure dayes dead It is a singular and rare Alablaster Tombe and so exquisitely done that it excelleth Ierusalem excepted all the Monuments in Iudea erected for the l●ke purpose being inclosed within a delicate Chappell under the ground Not farre thence in the same Village wee saw the decayed House where Martha and Mary Magdalen inhabited and the stone whereon Christ sate say they when hee said to Martha Mary hath chosen the best part Leaving this moorish Bythania being now a Village of no qualitie wee returned by beggerly Bethphage and finding it farre worser about mid-day wee arrived on the top of Mount Olivet where wee dined on our owne provision carried with us and then proceeded in our sights From this place we had the full prospect of Ierusalem For the City standing upon the edge of a Hill cannot be seen all at one sight save on this Mountain which is two times higher then Mount

Syon These are the Monuments shewn us upon the Mount of Olives First the print of the left foot of our Saviour in an immoveable stone which he made when hee ascended to Heaven the Guardiano told us further that the right foots print was taken away by the Turks and detained by them in the Temple of Salomon But who can think our Saviour trod so hard at his Ascension as to have left the impression of his feet behind him Next the place where hee foretold the judgement to come and the signes and the wonders that should be seene in the Heavens before that dreadfull day Thirdly the place where the Symbolum Apostolorum was made which is a fine Chamber under ground like a Church having twelve pillars to support it Fourthly where Christ taught his Disciples the Pater noster and where hee fell in an Agony when hee sweat blood and water Fifthly where Peter Iames and Iohn slept whiles our Saviour prayed and returned so oft to awake them and also below that where the other Disciples were left Sixtly the Garden of Gethsemaine where Christ used commonly to pray in the which place he was apprehended by the Officers of the high Priests and it was also where Iudas kissed him and the Serjants fell backward on the ground Seventhly they shewed us a stone marked with the Head Feet and Elbows of Iesus in their throwing of him down when as they bound him after he was taken and ever since say they have these prints remayned there And lastly at the foot of Mount Olivet in the Valley of Iehosaphat we descended by a paire of staires of forty three steps and six paces large in a faire Church builded under the ground Where say they the Monument of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is and did shew it unto us whom they think was born in Ierusalem dwelt at Bethleem and Nazareth and died upon Mount Syon I saw also there the Sepulchres of Ioseph her Husband Ioachim her Father and of Anna her Mother And for which sights paying sixteene Madins a man to certaine Moores we returned to our Monastery again night to repose us having seen all the Antiquities and places of note were to be seen in and about all Iudea Lo I have plainly described all these Monuments by the order of these twelve severall days The like heretofore was never by any Travailer so punctually and so truly and so curiously set down and made manifest to the intellective Reader But as I said in the beginning of my Description so say I now at the conclusion some of these things are ridiculous some of manifest untruths some also doubtfull and others somewhat more credible and of apparant truth The recapitulation whereof is only by me used as I was informed by Gaudentius Saybantus the father Guardian Laurenzo Antonio il Viccario and the Trenchman Iohn Baptista Then had we avaricious Baptista our Guide and Interpreter to reward every one of us propining him with two Chickeens of Gold And lastly wee gratified the gaping Steward the Cerberian Porter the Cymerian Cooke and his Aetnean face with a Chickeen of Gold the man from each of us amounting in all among the four Catz●cullioni to twenty foure pounds fifteene shillings sterling Nay this was not all for even when the Aegyptian Caravan was staying for us without the City the Guardian made a begging Sermon to us imploring our bounties to commiserate and support their great calamities losses and oppressions inflicted upon them by the Infidels with many other base and flattering speeches which indeed nine of us refused because of the great Extortion hee had imposed upon us before but the two Germa● Barons gave him the value of six English pounds or thereabouts And now finally ere I leave Mount Syon I think it not amisse to give the itching Traveller a frozen stomacke who perhaps soweth Words in the Winde conceptions in the Ayre and catcheth Salmons swimming on Atlas I will now I say justly cast up to him the charges I defrayed within the Walles of Ierusalem not reckoning my journall expences and tributes else-where abroad arising to 18 pounds 16 shillings sterling And there a cooling card for his Caprizziat and imaginary inventions And it may serve also to damnifie the blind conceit of many who think that Travellers are at no charges go where they will but are freely maintained every where and that is as false as an hereticall errour May the 12 and the 18 day of my staying there about mid-day the other ten I joyned with the Caravan who formerly had conditioned with us to carry us to Egypt to furnish the rest with Camels or Dromidaries to ride upon for I would never ride any for 19 Piasters the man discharging us also all Tributes and Caffars were to be imposed upon us by the way so we marched through the Southwest part of Iudea towards Idumea or the Edomites land and mean-while I gave Ierusalem this good-night c. Thrice sacred Sion somtimes blaz'd abroad To be the Mansion of the living God For Prophets Oracles Apostles deare And godly Kings who raisd great glory here Where Aarons R●d the Arke and Tables two And Mannaes Pot fire of sacrifice so From Heaven that fell were all inclos'd in thee Containing neer what not contain'd could be To thee sweet Sion and thine eldest daughter Which Titus fiercely sackt with Iewish slaughter And to thy second birth rais'd to my sight I prostrate bid thy blessed bounds good night Next for the Holy land which I have trac'd From end to end and all its beauty fac'd Where Kings were stall'd disthron'd defac'd renown'd Cast down erect'd unscepterd slain and crown'd The land of Promise once a Sea of Oile Whence milk and honey flow'd yea to a soile Where men and might like miracles were rais'd Sprung from a Garden plot A wonder prais'd Above conceit whose strength did for excell All other lands take thou my kind farewell And last Franciscan Friers O painted Tombs Where vice and lust lurke low beneath your wombs Whose hearts like Hell do gape for greed of gold That have Religion with your conscience sold To you I say a pox O flattering Friers And damn'd deceivers born and bred for Lyers Whose end my purse implores O faithlesse fellows And leaves you for your pains curst Hamans gallows Having bid farwell to Syon we marched that afternoon in the way of Gaza and arrived at night in a goodly Village more full of Iews than Moores called Hembaluda situate on the face of a fruitfull Hill and the last limit of Iudea Here the Germans and I were well entertained gratis by certain Iews that spoke Italian and much rejoyced to see such strangers in these bounds for two of them had been borne in Venice The Captaine and our company were all Aegyptians all of them being Christians called Copties viz. believers Their number was about 800 persons who had come up from Aegypt to dignifie for