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A51759	The voyages & travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight wherein is set down the way to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem, as also to the lands of the great Caan, and of Prestor John, to Inde, and divers other countries : together with many strange marvels therein.	Mandeville, John, Sir.; Jean, d'Outremeuse, 1338-ca. 1399.	1677 (1677)	Wing M415; ESTC R21151	84,811	129

sometime Moryach but after it'was called Belet and there is the Ark of God with some Reliques of the Iews This Ark did Titus carry with him to Rome when he had discomfitted the Iews In that same Ark were the Ten Commandments and Aarons Rod and Moses Rod with which he parted the Red sea when the people of Israel passed through on dry foot and there was the Vessel of Hanna the Clothing and Ornaments and the Tabernacle of Aaron and a square Table of Gold with twelve precious Stones and a Fox of Iasper graven with four fingers and eight Names of our Lord within and seven Candlesticks of Gold and four Censors of Gold and an Altar also of fine Gold and four Lions of Gold unto the which they had a Cherubim of Gold twelve spans long and a Tabernacle of Gold and also twelve Trumpets of Silver and a Table of Silver and seven Earley Loaves and many other Reliques that were before the Nativity of Christ. Vpon the Rock slept Jacob when he saw Angels go up and said Vere locus iste sanctus est ego ignorabam that is Surely this place is holy and I wist not And there the Angel changed Jacobs Name and called him Israel In that same place also David saw the Angel that slew the People with a Sword and put it all bloody into the Sheath And on this Reck was S. Simeon when he received our Lord into the Temple and on this Rock set he him when the Iews would have stoned him and the Rock rent in two and in that Cleft he hid him and after came down and gave him Light And on this Rock sat our Lady and learned her Psalter There likewise our Lord forgave the sins of the woman that was taken and found in Adultery And there was our Lord Iesus Circumcised and there the Angel denounced to Zachary the Nativity of S. John Baptist. And there first offered Melchisedech Bread and Wine and Water to our Lord in token of the Sacrament that was to come and there David prayed to our Lord for mercy for him and for his people when he saw the Angel slay his people and our Lord anon heard his prayer and therefore he would have made the Temple in the place but our Lord Iesus Christ forbade him by an Angel for he had committed murther in consenting to the slaying of the good Knight Vriah for to have his wife therefore all that he had prepared for the building of the Temple he left to Solomon his Son and he built it and prayed to the Lord that all those that prayed in that place deboutly and with good heart that he would hear their prayer and grant that they servently asked and the Lord granted it wherefore Solomon his Son called it the Temple of Counsel and help of God Without the doors of that Temple is an Altar where the Iews were wont to offer Doves and Turtles and in that Temple was Zichary slain and on the Pinacle the Iews set St. James that was the first Bishop of Hierusalem And a little from this Temple on the right side is a Church covered with Lead that is called the School of Solomon Towards the South is the Temple of Salon which is a great place and they were the Founders thereof and of their Order and in that Templum Domini dwell Canons From this Temple toward the East six and twenty paces in a corner of the City is the Path of our Lord and this Path was wont to go to Paradise and not far thence is our Ladies Bed and near that is S. Simeons Tomb. Without the Cloyster of the Temple toward the North is a fair Church of St. Anne our Ladies Mother and there was our Lady conceived and before that Church is a great Trée which began to grow that same night And as men go down from that Church two and twenty steps lyeth Joachim our Ladies Father in a Tomb of stone and there near was laid sometime St. Anne but St. Elena did translate her to Constantinople In this Church is a Well in manner of a Cistern that is called Probatica piscina that hath five Enterings and into that Cistern an Angel was wont to descend and stir the water and what man had bathed first therein after the stirring was made whole what disease soever he had There was the man of the Palsie made whole who had béen sick eight and thirty years and there beside was the House of Pilate and a little from that the House of King Herod who slew the Innocents CHAP. XXIV Of Herod the King THis King Herod was a very wicked man and a Tyrant for he did first and formost slay his Wife whom he loved full well and for the great love of her he went out of his wits and so was he a long time and afterward he came again to himself And after he slew his own Children that he had gotten of the said wife and commanded likewise his second wife to be slain and a son that he had begotten of her and after that he slew his own Mother and he would also have slain his own Brother but his Brother dyed suddenly and thus he did all the ill that he might And then he fell sick and when he saw that he should die he sent for his Sister and all the great Lords of the Country and when they were there he did put all the Lords into a Tower and said to his Sister he wist well that the men of the Country would make no sorrow for him when he was dead and therefore he made her to swear unto him that she would smite off the Heads of the Lords every one after his death and then would men of the Country make sorrow for his death in regard of the Noble mens deaths and then he made his last Testament But his Sister fulfilled it not as pertaining unto the death of the Lords for as soon as he was dead she delivered the Lords out of the Tower and sent every one home to their houses and told them what her Brother commanded her to do unto them And ye shall understand that in that time were thrée Herods of great name This of whom I speak was called Herod Ascolonite and he that did smite off St. John Baptists Head was called Herod Antipa and the third was called Herod Agrippa and he did slay St. James and put St. Peter in Prison CHAP. XXV Of Saint Salvators Church A Little within the City is St. Salvators Church and therein is Saint John Chrysostomes Arm and the most part of Saint Stephens Head And at the entering of Mount Sion is a Chappel and in that Chappel is that great and large Stone with which the Sepulcre was covered when Christ was laid therein the which Stone as it is written the thrée Maries saw turned upward when they came to the Sepulcre and they found an Angel that told them that Christ was Risen from Death to Life and there is a

little Pillar to the which our Lord was bound and scourged and there was Annas House that was Bishop of the Iews at that time and in that same place denyed S. Peter our Lord thrice before the Cock crew and there is a part of the Table at which Christ eat his last Supper with his Disciples and yet there is the Vessel with Water out of which the Disciples féet were washed and near by also is Saint Stephens Grave and there is the Altar where our Lord heard the Angel sing and there appeared Christ first to his Disciples after his Resurrection when the Gates were shut and said Pax vobis that is Peace be to you and upon that Mount appeared Christ to Saint Thomas and had him féel his wounds and that was eight daies after his Resurrection and then he believed perfectly and said Dominus meus Deus meus My Lord and my God In that same Chappel behind the high Altar were all the Apostles on Whitsunday when the Holy Ghost descended on them in likeness of Fire and there God made peace with his Disciples and there slept S. John the Evengelist on our Lords breast and saw in his sléep many secret things of Heaven Also Mount Sion is within the city and it is a little higher then the other side of the City and that City is stronger on the one side then on the other for in the foot of Mount Sion is a fair and strong castle which the Soldan did cause to be made there On Mount Sion was King David buried and Solomon and many other Kings of Hierusalem and there is the place where Saint Peter wept full bitterly when he had denyed our Lord and a stones rast from that is another place where our Lord was judged for at that time was Caiaphas House there and betwéen the Temple of Solomon and Mount Sion is the place where Christ raised the Maiden from death to life Vnder Mount Sion in the Vale of Josaphat is a Well called Natatory Silo there was our Lord washed after he was Baptized And thereby is the Trée on the which Judas hanged himself for despair when he had sold and betrayed Christ. And thereby is the Synagogue where the Bishops of the Iews and Pharisées came to held their Councel and there Judas cast thirty pieces before them and said peccavi tradens sanguinem justum that is I have sinned in betraying the Innecent Blood CHAP. XXVI Of the Field Acheldemack which was bought with the thirty pieces ON the other side of Mount Sion toward the South a stones cast is the Field that they bought with those thirty pieces for the which Christ was sold that men call Acheldemack that is the Field of blood in that Field are many Tombs of Christian men for there be many Pilgrims buried And also in Hierusalem toward the West is a fair Church where the Trée grew of which the Cross was made and thereby is the Church where our Lady met with Elizabeth when they were both with Child and St. John stirred in his Mothers Womb and did Worship to our Lord his Maker and under the Altar of this Church is the place where St. John was born and thereby is the Castle of Emaux CHAP. XXVII Of Mount Joy TWo miles from Hierusalem is Mount Joy this is a fair place and there lyeth Samuel the Prophet in a fair Tomb. It is called Mount Joy for there these that travel first sée Hierusalem And in the middle of the Vale of Josaphat is a little River that is called Torrens Cedron over which lies the Trée for men to pass over of which the Cross was made In this Vale is a Church of our Lady and her Sepulcher and she was thréescore and twelve years of age when she died And there near is the place where our Lord forgave Saint Peter his sins and misdéeds which he had done Near unto that is a Chappel where Judas kissed our Lord that men call Gethsemain when he was taken of the Iews and there left Christ his Disciples before his Passion when he went to pray and said Pater si fieri potest transeat à me calix ista that is Father if it may be done let this Cup pass from me And thereby is a Garden where our Lord sweat both blood and water and there is the Tomb of King Josaphat of whom the Vale had the Name and on the side of that Vale is the Mount Olivet and it is called so for there grow many Olive Trées and it is higher then Hierusalem and therefore from that Hill men may sée into the Stréets of Hierusalem and betwéen the Hill and the City is nothing but the Vale of Josaphat and that is not very large and upon that Hill stood our Lord when he ascended into Heaven and yet séemeth there the step of his left foot in the stone and there is an Abbey of black Cannons that was great sometimes but now there is but a Church and a little thence eightéen paces is a Chappel and there is the stone on the which our Lord God sate when he preached and said thus Beati pauperes spiritus quoniam ipsorum est regnum coelorum that is Blessed be they that are poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven And there he taught his Disciples their Pater-noster There also is a Church of that blessed woman Mary Egyptian and there is she buried And upon the other side toward the East thrée bow-shoots from thence standeth Bethphage where our Lord Iesus Christ sent Peter and James for to fetch the Ass on Palm-sunday CHAP. XXVIII Of the Castle of Bethania THere toward the East is a castle that men call Bethania and there dwelt Simon the Leper that harboured our Lord and them that were baptized of his Disciples and he was called Julian and was made Bishop and that is he that men call on for good Habour In that same place our Lord forgave Mary Magdalen her sins and there she washed his féet with tears and wiped them with her hair and there was Lazarus raised after he had béen four days dead CHAP. XXIX Of Jericho and other things AT the returning to Mount Olivet is the place where our Lord wept upon Hierusalem and thereby our Lady appeared to S. Thomas after her Assumption and gave him her Girdle and thereby is a stone on which our Lord sate often and Preached And there is mount Galile where the Apostles were gathered when Mary Magdalen told them of Christs rising Betwéen Mount Olivet and Mount Galile is a Church where the Angel told our Lady when she should die And from Bethany to Jericho is five miles Jericho was sometime a little city but it is wasted and now it is but a little Town that Town took Joshua through the Miracle of God and bidding of the Angel and destroyed it and cursed those that should build it again Of that city was Rahab that common woman that received the Messengers of