the World Mine aforesaid Consort and I having spent ten dayes in viewing and reviewing this City and circumâ—acent Isles and my purpose reaching for Greece and Asia as hee was to recrosse the snowy Alpes my muse remembreth our sad departure Now friendly Arthur leâ—t me courts the maine Of pleasant Lombardy by Trent againe Beares through the Alpes in his 〈◊〉 wayes And past Bavaria where Danubâ—o strayes He fell on Rhyne and downe these curlings came Then ship'd for Albion neere to Roâ—terdame And coasting Isâ—s view'd that royall court Where once Appollo did in glory sport Fraught with Ambrosian Necâ—ar crown'd his dayes Oâ— Pindus tops to have Mecenas praise This light obumbrat Arthur courts the North And serv'd a noble Earle of ancient worth Full eighteene yeares till death that darts our woe First smote his Lord and then his Countesse so Now they are fled and he is left alone Till heavens provide his hopes some happy one Which if to his desert such fortune came A Princely service might his merit clayme Where wishing both his fate and worth to be I 'le Venice leave and visite Lombardy In the time of my staying here I went forth to Lombardy and visited the famous Cities of Padua Verona and Ferrarâ— The commendation of which is celebrated in these verses Extollit Paduam juris studiam medicinae Verona humanae dâ—t singula commoda vitae 〈◊〉 loculos ferrarea â—errea 〈◊〉 In Pâ—dua I stayed three moneths learning the Italian tongue and found there a Country Gentlemen of mine Doctor Iohn Wedâ—erburne a learned Mathematician 〈◊〉 now dwelling in Moravia who taught mee well in the Language and in all other respects exceeding friendly to me Padua is the most melancholy City in Europe the cause onely arising of the narrow passage of the open streetes and of the long Galleries and darke-ranges of pillars that goe alwhere on every hand of you through the whole streetes of the Towne The Schollers here in the night commit many 〈◊〉 against their privat adversaries and too often executed upon the stranger and innocent and all with 〈…〉 for beastly Sodomy it is as rife heere as in Rome Naples Florence 〈…〉 The Second Part. NOw step I o're the gulfe to th' Istrian shâ—are Dalmatia Slavonia Ilyria more Valona Albana Epyre in Greece And Morea fat where Iason hurt his fleece The Adriaticke and Ionean Iles And Lesinaes great monster Athens styles With Lacedemon sackt and Sparta rent From ancient worth Arcadia poore and shent Our gulfe Lepanto the Aetolian hight And all these coasts till Candy come in sight AFter my returne from Padâ—a to Venice 24. dayeâ— attendance devasted there for passage â— imbarked in a Carâ—â—esalo being bound to Zara Novo in Dalmatia scarcely had we lost the sight of Venice but we incountred with a deadly storme at Serocâ—e Lenante The Master had no compasse to direct his course neither was he expert in Navigation because they use commonly either on the South or North sides of the Gulfe to hoise up sayles at night and againe breake of day they have full sight of land taking their directions from the topped hillâ— of the maine continent The tempest increasing and the winds contrary we were constrained to seeke up for the Port of Parenzo in Istria Istria was called Giapidia according to Pliny Cato affirmeth it was called Istria of one Isirâ— but by the moderne Writers L'ultima Regione di Italia By 〈◊〉 it is said to bee of length 100. miles and forty large but by mine experience onely 80. long and 20. large Istria hath on the South Friuli and the Sea on the West Stria on the North Carniola on the East the Gulfe Carnarâ— or Quevâ—ro It is thought the Istrians were first a people of Colchis in Natolia who by King Aetâ—s being sent to persue Iason and the Argonaâ—ts who had stolne the golden Fleece and his daughter Medea either because of the long journey or feare of the Kings anger durst not returne and so remained in this Country where they enjoyed a long freedom til by many incursions of piracy still molesting the Venetians they lost many of their Townes Anno 938. afterward the whole Country made tributary by Duke Henry Gondolo about the yeare 1200. That part which bordereth with the Sea belongeth to the Venetians but the rest within land holds of the Emperour and the Arch Duke of Austria The Country it selfe aboundeth in Cornes wines and all kinds of fruites necessary for humane life Neere to this Haven wherein wee lay expecting roome windes I saw the ruines of old Iustinopoli so called of Iustinian the Emperour who builded it upon an Iland of eight miles length and three acres broad and to passe betwixt the City and the firme land there was seven bridges made It was anciently strong but now altogether decayed the principall Cities in Istria at this day are these Parenzo Humagâ— Pola Rouigo The windes favouring us we weighed Anchors and sayled by the Iles Brioni so much esteemed for the fine stones they produce called Istriennes which serve to beautifie the Venetian Palaces About mid-day I saw Mount di Caldaro on the foote of which the ancient City of Pola is situated having a harbour wherein small ships may lye True it is this Port is not much frequenâ—ed in respect of a contagious Lake neere to it which inâ—â—cteth the Ayre with a filthy exhalation I saw hard by this place the ruines of the Castle di Oriando the Arke Iriumphant and the reliques of a great Amphitheatre This Pola was called by Pliny Iulia pietas and it standeth in the South-east part of Istria Continuing our course we â—assed the perillous gulfe of Carnaro This gulfe or bay of Carnaro runneth in North and by 〈◊〉 50. miles within land at the narrow entry whereof it hath a part of Istria on the West and Dalmatia on the East The Venetians use to keepe alwaies certaine Gallies at the mouth of this bay on the Dalmatian side to intercept the cursary of the Scoks In the bottome of this Carnarian gulfe are placed Senna Gradisca and Novagard the chiefe Cities of Croatia the people which inhabit these Townes and the adjoyning Country are called Scoks a kind of Dalmatians being of a robust nature couragious and desperate Their weapons are broad two handed swords long Skenes carrying Targets at their girdles and long Gunnes in their hands they are marvellous swift on foote and daily annoy by land their neighbouring Turkes with inrodes fetching away great spoyles and booties of Cornes Cattell and Horses and by Sea with Frigots and Brigantines did ever and often vexe the Venetian commerce in their owne domesticke waters the great losses which from these incursive people the Venetians had from time to time received and the other dammages they inflicted upon the Turkes in their Trafficking with Venice for whom the Venetians are bound by former Articles of peace to keepe harmelesse within their owne
forth for the sword to glut upon the bodyes of her Ancients were made as pavements to walk upon her Matrons became a prey and prize to every Ravisher and her Priests and Sacrificers were slaine before the gates of their Temples This City was the Mother and Well-spring of all Liberall Arts and Sciences and the great Cisterne of Europe whence flowed so many Conduit pipes of learning all where but now altogether decayed The circuit of old Athens hath beene according to the fundimentall walls yet extant about sixe Italian miles but now of no great quantity nor many dwelling houses therein being within two hundred fire-houses having a Castle which formerly was the Temple of Minerva They have abundance of all things requisite for the sustenance of humane life of which I had no small proofe for these Athenians or Greeks exceeding kindly banqueted mee foure dayes and furnisht me with necessary provision for my voyage to Creta And also transported mee by Sea in a Brigandino freely and on their owne charges to Serigo being 44. miles distant After my redounded thankes they having returned the contemplation of their courtesies brought me in remembrance how curious the old Athenians were to heare of forreigne newes and with what great regard and estimation they honoured travellers of which as yet they are no wayes defective Serigo is an Iland in the sea Cretico It was anciently called Cytherea of Cythero the Sonne of Phaenise And of Aristotle Porphyris or Schotera in respect of the fine Marble that is got there It is of circuit threescore miles having but one Castle called Capsallo which is kept by a Venetian Captaine here it is said that Venus did first inhabit and I saw the ruines of her demolished Temple on the side of a Mountaine yet extant A little more downward below this old adored Temple of Venus are the Reliques of that Palace wherein Menelaus did dwell who was King of Sparta Lord of this I le The Greeks of the I le told me there were wild Asses there who had a stone in their heads which was a soveraigne remedy for the Falling sicknesse and good to make a woman be quickly delivered of her birth I made afterward deeper enquiry for it to have either seene or bought it but for my life I could never attaine to any perfect knowledge thereof In the time of my abode at the Village of Capsalo being a haven for small Barks and scituate below the Castle the Captaine of that same Fortresse kild a Seminary Priest whom he had found in the night with his whoore in a Brothell-house for the which sacrilegious murther the Governour of the Isle deposed the Captaine and banished him causing a Boate to be prepared to send him to Creta O! if all the Priests which doe commit Incest Adultery and Fornication yea and worse Il peccato caâ—nale contra natura were thus handled and severely rewarded what a sea of Sodomiticall irreligious blood would overflow the halfe of Europe to staine the spotted colour of that Roman beast Truely and yet more these lascivious Friars are the very Epicures or off-scourings of the earth for how oft have I heard them say one to another Allegre allegre mio caro fratello chi ben mangia ben beve c. That is Be cheerefull be cheerefull deare brother he that eateth well drinketh well hee that drinketh well sleepeth well he that sleepeth well sinneth not and he that sinneth not goeth straight through Purgatory to Paradise This is all the care of their living making their tongues to utter what their harts do prophanely think Ede bibe dormi post mortem nulla volupt as and as it is well observed of this Monachall and licentious life Non male sunt Monachis grato indita nomina patrum Cum numerent natos hic ubique suos Injustly no! Monkes be cal'd Fathers Why Their Bastards swarme as thicke as starres in sky In the aforesaid Boat I also imbarked with the Captain and sailed by the little Isoletta of Serigota Leaving Capo di Spada on the left hand wee arrived at Carabusa with extreame fortune being fiercely pursued by three Turkish Galleots Betweene Serigo and Carabusa wee had sevenscore and twelve Miles of dangerous and cumbustious seas The Third Part. Now Creta comes the Mediterren Queen To my sought view where golden Ida's seen Cut with the Labyrinth of th' old Minatoure Thence trac'd I all the Syclads fifty foure With Nigropont and Thessaly amaine Macedon Pernassus the Achaian plaine Tenedos and Troy long Phrygia fixt Sestos Abidos Adrianopole vext Colchis falne Thebes Hellespont and more Constantinople earths best soveraigne glore The Euxine sea and Pompeys Pillar prest In Paru then I le take my winters rest THE I le of Candy formerly called Creta hath to the North the Aegean sea to the West the sea Ionian to the South the Libique Sea and to the East the Carpathian Sea It lyeth mid-way twixt Achaia in Greece and Cyrene in Affrick not being distant from the one nor from the other above two dayes sailing It is a most famous and ancient Kingdome By moderne writers it is called Queene of the Iles Medeterrene It had of old an hundred Cities whereof it had the name Hecatompolis but now onely foure Candia Canea Rethimos and Scithia the rest are but Villages and Bourges It is of length to wit from Capo Ermico in the West called by Pliny Frons arietis and Capo Salomone in the East two hundred and forty Miles large threescore and of circuit sixe hundred and fifty miles This is the chiefe Dominion belonging to the Venetian Reipublicke In every one of these foure Cities there is a Governour and two Counsellors sent from Venice every two years The Country is divided into foure parts under the jurisdiction of the foure Cities for the better administration of Justice and they have a General who commonly remaineth in the City of Candi like to a Vice-roy who deposeth or imposeth Magistrates Captaines Souldiers Officers and others whatsoever in the behalfe of St. Mark or Duke of Venice The Venetians detaine continually a strong guard divided in Companies Squadrons and Garrisons in the Cities and Fortresses of the Iland which doe extend to the number of 12000. Souldiers kept not onely for the incursions of Turks but also for feare of the Cretes or inhabitants who would rather if they could render to the Turke than to live under the subjection of Venice thinking thereby to have more liberty and lesse taxed under the Infidell than now they are under the Christian. This Isle produceth the best Maluasie Muskadine and Leaticke wines that are in the whole Universe It yeeldeth Orenges Lemmons Mellons Cytrons Grenadiers Adams Apples Raisins Oilves Dates Hony Sugar Vva tri de volte and all other kinds of fruit in abundance But the most part of the Cornes are brought yearely from Archipelago and Greece The chiefe Rivers are Cataracho Melipotomos Escasino being all of them shallow
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 receiviâ—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 aâ—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 Hierosâ—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
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 bâ—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 â—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 â—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 Nâ—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 Idâ—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 lâ—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
so proud of his arrivall that impetuously inunding his bankes to make him welcome hee overwhelmed the better halfe of the Town And if it had not been for the infinite charges of the Pope and desperate toyle of the people the violent force of his rage swelling courtesie had absolutely subverted and carryed away the rest of the City The like inundation was never seene of Tyber as after this Coronation portending that as the first Gomorah was destroyed by fire so this second Sodome should be sommerssed by water The beginning of this River springeth from the Ombrian and Aquilean hills joyning with the Alpes Apenine whose course is fourescore and sixteene miles dis-burthening it selfe in the Sea Mediterrene at Ostia twelve miles from Rome The mouth and haven whereof have beene long dammed up to stoppe the passage of hostile and Moorish incursions least the City should be surprised on a suddaine By which slavish Ecclesiasticke feare Rome is shamefully defrauded of Shipping and forraigne trafficke and if it were not for the Clergy which are the two parts of the Inhabitants besides the Iews and Curtezans which are the greatest implements of the other third part it would become the most miserable Towne in Italy And notwithstanding that for the space of 12 miles round about Rome there are neither Cornes nor Wines nor Village Plantage or Cultinage save onely playne and pastoragious fields intermingled at all quarters with ancient Watch-towers being an old policy of the Romans to prevent any sudden surprise of their enemies insomuch that at my first view of Rome I imagined the people were all famished or in danger of famishing But by your leave being once entred the City I found abundance of all things necessary for life at so easie and gentle a rate that never a Town in Europe hitherto could shew mee the like The common Wine that is drunke in Rome is Vin Romanisco the better sort Albano Muscatello Sheranino but as for Lachrimae Christi the teares of Christ I drew so hard at that same weeping Wine till I found my purse begun to weepe also and if time had not prevented the sweetnesse of such teares I had been left for all the last miserable mourner As for the place where the Pilgrimes finde one Dinner called the Popes Table it is thus there is a certaine low roome at Saint Peters palace and without the gate where every day at our nine of the clocke there meet 21 pilgrimes 14 from the Trinitie one having a bullet for all and seven from Saint Peters Penitentialls where being received the seven Jesuite Pilgrims get the upper place and sit alone yet all of them alike served each of them having four dishes of meat besides bread and abundance of wine The dinner done their fragments are wrapt up in cleane paper which they carry with them and so departing they or like company come no more there They are daily served with a very venerable Prelate and a few other serviceable Priests but for the Popes presence with them there is no such matter That liberty being spoyld by a drunken Dutch-man about 60 yeares agoe who in presence of the Pope gave up againe his good Cheare and strong Wines with a freer good will then they were allowed him whereat the Pope grew angry notwithstanding the drunken fellow cryed through his belching throate Thankes Holy Father Deere Holy Father God blesse your Holinesse Many have wrote of the singularities of old Rome and I will also recite some decayed Monuments thereof which I have seene The speciall object of Antiquity I saw being never a whit decayed to this day is the Templum omnium Deâ—râ—m but now omnium sanctorum builded in a rotundâ— and open at the top with a large round like to the Quire of the Holy Grave And a pretty way from this are the remainants of that Ancient Amphitheater beautified with great Columnes of a wonderfull bignesse and height and a Mile in compasse the reason why it was first devised the Ghosts of the slaughtered Sabines may testifie To be briefe I saw the decayed house of worthy Cicero the high Capitoll the Pallace of cruell Nero the Statues of Marcus Aurelius Alexander and his horse Bucephalus The greene hill like unto Mount Cavallo that was made of the Potters sheards at one time which brought the Tribute gold to this Imperiall Seat the seven Piramides some whereof during her former glory were transported from Aegypt The high and small Statues of Peter and Paul the Castle St. Angel which Adrian first founded standing now in a moderate circumferent height with incircling battlements and their doubtfull transported Reliques from Ierusalem with many other things I diligently remarked some whereof were frivilous some ambiguous and some famous Neare to Mount Palatin and the decayed Temple of Romulus I saw the Temple of Venus converted now to the Church of Sancta Maria Liberatrice Dalla piene di Inferno The deliverer from Infernall paines as Venus was the Censolatrix of amorous paines Besides all these I saw one most sight-worthy Spectacle which was the Library of the Ancient Romans being licentiated to enter with two Gentlemen Sir William Carre and Mr. Iames Aughmuty my Country-men where when I was come I beheld a world of old bookes the first whereof was an infinite number of Greeke Bibles subscribed with the hands of these Holy Fathers who as they say translated them out of the Hebrew tongue I saw also the Academies of Aristotle wherein hee treateth of the soule health life nature and qualities of men with the Medicaments of Galen for the diseases and infirmities of man The familiar Epistles of Cicero the Aencidot of Virgil the Saphicke Verses of that Lesbian Sapho the workes of Ovid Pliny Plutarke Titus Livius Horatius Strabo Seneca Plato Homer Tirentius Cato Hippocrates Iosephus Pythagoras Diodorus Siculus Eusebius St. Austine St. Ambrose St. Cyprian St. Gregory likewise the workes of other excellent Philosophers Divines and Poets all wrote with their owne hands and sealed with their names and manuell subscriptions I saw also the forme of the first ancient writing which was upon leaves of Trees cakes of lead with their fingers on ashes barkes of Trees with strange figures and unknowne Letters that was brought from Aegypt for the Aegyptians first devised the use thereof and the sight of infinite Obligatory writings of Emperours Kings and Princes which I omit to relate referring the same to be Registred by the next beholder Still left untold something there must be seene For them who trace our feete with Argos eyne Yet let them stay and take this verball note They who would better write must larger quote Bidding adiew to my company and this Library I longed to view the gorgeous Mosaicall worke of St. Peters Chuâ—â—h The matter was no sooner conceived but I went to the doore yet affraid to enter because I was not accustomed with the carriage and ceremonies of such a Sanctum Sanctorum but at the
and discommodious for shipping in respect of their short courses and rocky passages And the principall Cities of old were Gnassus where Minos kept his Court 2. Cortina 3. Aphra and Cydonia This Country was by Marcellus made subject to the Romans It was afterward given by Baldwin Earle of Flanders the first Latin Emperour of Constantinople to Boniface of Montferrat who sold it An. 1194. to the Venetians Thus much of the I le in generall and now in respect of my travailing two times through the bounds of the whole Kingdome which was never before attchieved by any Travailer in Christendome I will as briefely as I can in particular relate a few of those miseries endured by me in this land with the nature and quality of the people This aforesaid Carabusa is the principall Fortresse of Creta being of it selfe invincible and is not unlike to the Castle of Dunbertan which standeth at the mouth of Clyd upon which River the ancient City of Lanarke is scituated for this Fort is environed with a Rock higher than the walls and joyneth close with Capo Ermico having learned of the theevish way I had to Canea I advised to put my money in exchange which the Captaine of that strength very courteously performed and would also have disswaded me from my purpose but I by no perswasion of him would stay From thence departing all alone scarcely was I advanced twelve miles in my way when I was beset on the skirt of a Rocky Mountaine with three Greeke murthering Renegadoes and an Italian Bandido who laying hands on me beat me most cruelly robed me of all my cloaths and stripped me naked threatning me with many grievous speeches At last the respective Italian perceiving I was a stranger and could not speak the Cretan tongue began to aske me in his owne language where was my money to whom I soberly answered I had no more than hee saw which was fourescore Bagantines which scarely amounted to two groats English but hee not giving credit to these words searched all my Cloathes and Budgeto yet found nothing except my linnen and Letters of recommendations I had from divers Princes of Christendome especially the Duke of Venice whose subjects they were if they had beene lawfull Subjects which when hee saw did move him to compassion and earnestly entreated the other three theeves to grant me mercy and to save my life A long deliberation being ended they restored backe againe my pilgrimes Cloathes and Letters but my blew Gowne and Bagantines they kept such also was their theevish Courtesie towards me that for my better safeguard in the way they gave me a stamped piece of clay as a token to shew any of their companions if I encountred with any of them for they were about twenty Rascalls of a confederate band that lay in this desart passage Leaving them with many counterfeit thankes I travailed that day seven and thirty Miles and at night attained to the unhappy Village of Pickehorno where I could have neither meate drinke lodging nor any refreshment to my wearied body These desperate Candiors thronged about me gazing as though astonished to â—ee me both want company and their Language and by their cruell lookes they seemed to be a barbarous uncivill people For all these High-landers of Candy are tyrannicall blood-thirsty and deceitfull The consideration of which and the appearance of my death signed to mee secretly by a pittifull woman made mee to shunne their villany in stealing forth from them in the darke night privately sought for a secure place of repose in a umbragious Cave by the Sea side where I lay till Morning with a fearefull heart a crased body a thirsty stomacke and a hungry belly Upon the appearing of the next Aurora and when the welkin had put aside the vizard of the night the Starres being covered and the earth discovered by the Sunne I imbraced my unknowne way and about mid-day came to Canea Canea is the second City of Creete called anciently Cydon being exceeding populous well Walled and fortified with Bulwarks It hath a large Castle containing ninety seven Pallaces in which the Rector and other Venetian Gentlemen dwell There lye continually in it seven Companies of Souldiers who keepe Centinell on the Walls guard the gates and Market places of the City Neither in this Towne nor Candia may any Countrey peasant enter with weapons especially Harquebuses for that conceived feare they have of Treason Truely this City may equall in strength either Zara in Dalmetia or Luka or Ligorne both in Tuscana or matchlesse Palma in Friuly for these five Cities are so strong that in all my Travaile I never saw them matched They are all well provided with aboundance of Artillery and all necessary things for their defence especially Lukâ— which continually reserves in store provision of victualls for twelve yeares siege In my first abode in Canea being a fortnight there came 6. Gallies from Venice upon one of which there was a young French Gentleman a Protestant borne neare Monpeillier in Langadocke who being by chance in company with other foure of his Countrey-men in Venice one of them killed a young noble Venetien about the quarrell of a Curtezan Whereupon they flying to the French Ambassadours house the rest escaped and he onely apprehended by a fall in his flight was afterward condemned by the Senators to the Gallyes induring life Now the Gallyes lying here sixe dayes he got leave of the Captaine to come a shoare with a Keeper when he would carrying an Irom bolt on his legge In which time wee falling in acquaintance he complained heavily of his hard fortune and how because he was a Protestant besides his slavery he was severely abused in the Galley sighing forth these words with teares Lord have mercy upon mee and grant me patience for neither friends nor money can redeeme mee At which expression I was both glad and sorrowfull the one moving my soule to exult in joy for his Religion the oâ—her for his misfortunes working a Christian condolement for intollerable affliction For I was in Venice at that same time when this accident fell out yet would not tell him so much But pondering seriously his lamentable distresse I secretly advised him the manner how he might escape and how farre I would hazard the liberty of my life for his deliverance desiring him to come a shoare early the next morning Meane while I went to an old Greekish woman with whom I was friendly inward for shee was my Landresse and reciting to her the whole businesse she willingly condiscended to lend me an old Gowne and a blacke vaile for his disguisement The time came and we met the matter was difficult to shake off the Keeper but such was my plot I did invite him to the Wine where after tractall disâ—ourses and deepe draughts of Leatick reason failing sleepe over-came his sences Whereupon conducting my friend to the appointed place I disburdened him of his Irons
stock Is extant yet though in the Descent broke On the South-west side of Troy standeth the Hill Ida having three heads On which Paris out of a sensuall delight rejecting Iuno and Pallas judged the golden Ball to Venus fatall in the end to the whole Country The ruines of which are come to that Poeticall Proverb Nunc seges est ubi Troja fuit Now corn doth grow where once faire Troy stood And soil made fat with streams of Phrygian blood Leaving the fields of noble Ilium we crossed the River of Simois dined at a Village named Extetash I remember in discharging our covenant with the Ianizary who was not contented with the former condition the French men making obstacle to pay that which I had given the wrathfull Ianizary belaboured them both with a cudgell till the blood sprung from their heads and compelled them to double his wages This is one true note to a Traveller whereof I had the full experience afterward that if hee cannot make his owne part good hee must alwayes at the first motion content these Rascals otherwise hee will be constrained doubtlesse with stroakes to pay twice as much for they make no account of conscience nor ruled by the Law of compassion neither regard they a Christian more than a Dog but whatsoever extortion or injury they use against him hee must be French-like contented bowing his head and making a counterfeit shew of thanks and happy too oftentimes if so hee escape Hence we arrived at the Castles called of old Sestos and Abydos in a small Frigot which are two Fortresses opposite to other Sestos in Europe where Thracia beginneth and Abidos in Asia where Bythinia likewise commenceth being a short mile distant and both of them foure leagues from Troy They stand at the beginning of Hellespont and were also cognominate the Castles of Hero and Leander which were erected in a commemoration of their admirable fidelity in love Which curling tops Leander cut in two And through proud billows made his passage go To court his Mistris O Hero the fair Whom Hellespon to stop was forc'd to dare Sweet was their sight to other short their stay For still Leander was recald by day At last stern Aeâ—le puft on Neptunes pride And gloomy Hellespont their loves divide He swims and sinks and in that glutting down The angry Fates did kinde Leander drown Of which when Hero heard judge you her part She smote her self and rent in two her heart But now they are commonly called the Castles of Gallipoly yea or rather the strength of Constantinople between which no Ships may enter without knowledge of the Captains and are by them strictly and warily searched lest the Christians should carry in Men Munition or Furniture of Armes for they stand in feare of surprising the Town And at their return they must stay three days before they are permitted to go through because of transporting away any Christian slaves or if they have committed any offence in the Citie the knowledge thereâ—f may come in that time At that same instant of my abode at Abidos there were fourescore Christian Slaves who having cut their Captaines throat with the rest of the Turks run away from Constantinople with the Galley And passing here the second day thereafter at midnight were discovered by the Watch of both Castles where the Cannon never left thundring for two houres yet they escaped with small hurt and at last arrived in the Road of Zante desiring landing and succour for thâ—ir victuals were done victuals they sent them but the Governour would not suffer them to come on Land In end the Sea growing somewhat boysterous the slaves for an excuse cut their Cables and runne the Galley a shoare Upon this they were entertained in service but the Providitor caused to burne the Galley fearing least the Turks should thereby forge some quarrell The yeare following an other Galley attempted the same but the poore slaves having past the Castles had been so wounded and killed with the great shot and the Galley ready to sinke they were enforced to runne a shoare where the next morning being apprehended they were miserably put to death Betwixt the Castles and Constantinople is about fortie leagues Over this straight Xerxes did make a bridge of Boats to passe into Greece which when a sudden tempest had shrewdly battered hee caused the Sea to be beaten with 300 stripes And at that same time Xerxes passing over the Hellespont and seeing all the Sea clad with his Army his Horses Chariots and Ships the teares burst from his eyes and being demanded the cause of his griefe answered O said hee I weep because within a hundred yeares all this great and glorious sight shall be dissolved to nothing and neither man nor beast shall be alive nor Chariot nor Engine of War but shall be turn'd to dust and so I sorrow to see the short mortality of Nature Indeed it was a worthy saying from such a Heathenish Monarch who saw no further than the present misery of this life Here I left the two French men with a Greeke Barber and imbarked for Constantinople in a Turkish Frigate The first place of any note I saw within these narrow Seas was the ancient Citie of Gallipolis the second seat of Thracia which was first builded by Cajus Caligula and somtimes had beene inhabited by the Gaules It was the first Towne in Europe that the Turks conquered and was taken by Solyman sonne to Orchanes Anno 1438. North from Thracia lyeth the Province of Bulgaria commonly Volgaria and was called so of certaine people that came from a Country neere to the River Volgo in Russia about the yeare 666. It lyeth betweene Servia Thracia and Danubio and by the Ancients it was thought to be the lower Misia but more iustly the Region of Dacia The chife Town is Sophia which some hold to be that Towne which Ptolomeus named Tebisca Here in Thracia lived the Tyrant Polymnestor who treacherously murthered Polidorus a yonger sonne of Priamus for which fact Heâ—uba the young Princes mother scratched him to death Here also reigned the wortthy King Cotis whom I propose as a paterne of rare temper in mastring and preventing passion To whom when a neighbour Prince had sent him an exquisite present of accurately wrought glasse he having dispatched the messenger with all due complements and gratitude of Maiestie broke them all to pieces lest by mishap any of his Servants doing the like might stir or move him to an intemperate choler The Greekes here and generally through all Greece beare as much reverence and respect to Mount Athos as the Papists beare to Rome All of which Religious Coliers or Friers must toile and labour for their living some in the Vines some in the Corn-fields and others at home in their Monasteries or else where abroad are alwayes occupied for the maintaining of their Families they are but poorely clad yet wonderfull kinde to all Viadants
so that who so have occasion to passe that Mountain are there lodged and furnished of all necessary provision of food by these sequestrate or solitary livers whose simple and harmlesse lives may be termed to be the very Emblemes of Piety and Devotion knowing nothing but to serve God and to live soberly in their carriage The chifest Cities of Thrace are Constantinople Abdera where Democritus was borne who spent his life in laughing Sestos Gallipoli Trajanople Galata and Adrianoplis which was taken by Bajazet Anno 1362. As wee sayled betweene Thracia and Bithinia a learned Grecian brought up in Padua that was in my company shewed â—ee Colchis whence Iason with the assistance of the Argonautes and the aid of Medeas skill did fetch the golden Fleece This Sea Hellespont tooke the name of Helle daughter to Athamas King of Thebes who was here drowned and of the Countrey Pontus ioyning to the same Sea wherein are these three Countries Armenia minor Colchis and Cappadocia After wee had fetcht up the famous City of Chalcedon in Bethinia on our right hand I beheld on our left hand the prospect of that little World the great City of Constantinople which indeed yieldeth such an outward splendour to the amazed beholder of goodly Churches stately Towers gallant Steeples and other such things whereof now the world make so great accompt that the whole earth cannot equall it Beholding these delectable objects we entred in the channell of Bosphorus which divideth Perah from Constantinople And arriving at Tapanau where all the munition of the great Turke lyeth I adressed my selfe to a Greeke lodging to refresh my selfe till morning But by your leave I had a hard welcome in my landing for bidding farewell to the Turkes who had kindly used me three dayes in our passage from the Castles the Master of the boate saying adio Christiano There were foure French Runnagates standing on the Cay who hearing these words fell desperatly upon me blaspheming the Name of Jesus and throwing me to the ground beate me most cruelly And if it had not beene for my friendly Turkes who leaped out of their boat and relieved mee I had doubtlesse there perished The other Infidels standing by said to mee behold what a Saviour thou hast when these that were Christians now turned Mahometans cannot abide nor regard the Name of thy God having left them with many a shrewd blow they had left mee I entred a Greek lodging where I was kindly received and much eased of my blows because they caused to oint them with divers Oiles and refreshed mee also with their best enttrtainment gratis because I had suffered so much for Christs sake and would receive no recompence againe The day following I went to salute and doe my duty to the right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Glover then Lord Ambassadour for our late Gracious Sovereigne King Iames of blessed Memory who most generously and courteously entertained mee three moneths in his house to whose kindnesses I was infinitely obliged as hereafter in my following Discourse of the fourth part of this History shall be more particularly avouched for certainly I never met with a more compleat Gentleman in all my Travels nor one in whom true worth did more illustrate vertue The fourth Part. NOw sing I of Byzantium Bosphors tides 'Twixt Europe and the lesser Asia glides Their Hyppodrome adorn'd with triumphs past And blackish Sea the Jadileck more fast The Galata where Christian Merchants stay And five Ambassadours for commerce aye The Turkish customeâ— and their manners rude And of their discent from the Scythian blood Their harsh Religion and their sense of Hell And Paradice their laws I shall you tell Then last of Mahomet their God on earth His end his life his parentage and birth COnstantinople is the Metropolitan of Thracia so called of Constantine the Emperour who first enlarged the same It was called of old Bizantium but now by the Turkes Stambolda which signifieth in their language a large City It was also called Ethuse by the Greeks Stymbolis This City according to ancient Authors was first founded by the Lacedemonians who were conducted from Lacedemon by one Pansanias about the year of the World 3294 which after their consultation with Apollo where they should settle their abode dwelling place they came to Bythinia and builded a Citie which was called Chalcedon But the commodity of fishing falling out contrary to their expectation in respect that the fishes were afraid of the white banks of the City the Captain Pausanias left that place and builded Byzantium in Thracia which first was by him intitled Ligos By Pliny Iustine and Strabo it was sirnamed Vrbs Illustrissima because it is repleat with al the blessings earth can give to man yea and in the most fertile soil of Europe Zonoras reporteth that the Athenians in an ambitious and insatiable desire of Sovereignty wonne it from the Lacedemonians They thus being vanquished suborned Severus the Roman Emperour to besiege the same But the Citie Byzantium being strongly fortified with walls the Romans could not take it in untill extream famine constrained them to yield after three yeares siege and Severus to satisfie his cruelty put all to the sword that were within and razed the wals giving it in possession to the neighbouring Perinthians This Citie thus remained in calamitie till Constantine resigning the Citie of Rome and a great part of Italy to the Popish inheritance of the Roman Bishops re-edified the same and translated his Imperiall Seat in the East and reduced all the Empire of Greece to a unite tranquilitie with immortall reputation which the Parthians and Persians had so miserably disquieted But these disorders at length reformed by the severe administration of Justice for the which and other worthy respects the said Constantine sonne of Saint Helen and Emperour of Rome which afterward the Pope usurped was sirnamed the Great He first in his plantation called this Citie new Rome but when he beheld the flourishing and multiplying of all things in it and because of the commodious situation thereof he called it Constantinopolis after his owne name This Emperour lived there many prosperous years in most happy estate likewise many of his Successours did untill such time that Mahomet the second of that name and Emperour of the Turks living in a discontented humour to behold the great and glorious Dominions of Christians especially this famous Citie that so flourished in his eies by momentall circumstances collected his cruell intentions to the full height of ambition whereby hee might abolish the very name of Christianity and also puft up with a presumptuous desire to enlarge his Empire went with a marvellous power both by Sea and Land unto this magnificent Mansion The issue whereof was such that after divers batteries and assaults the irreligious Infidels broke downe the walls and entred the City which breach was about forty paces long as by the new colour being built up again is easily knowne
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 Thâ—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 â—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
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 Mâ—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 Byâ—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 houâ—es within night After that the Captaine had cryed Caâ—e thâ—anga that is match away we set forward being well guaâ—ded round about with our Keepers because we entred into a dangerous way and a most desolate and â—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
eyne Whose glorious shades evanish no more seene And now to conclude as a Painter may spoyle a Picture but not the face so may some Stoicall Reader misconster and misconceiue some parts of this eye-set History though not able to marre the truth of it yet howsoever here is the just relation of nineteene yeares travells perfited in three deare bought voyages The generall computation of which dimmensious spaces in my goings traversings and returnings through Kingdomes Continents and Ilands which my paynefull feet traced over besides my passages of Seas and Rivers amounteth to thirty six thousand and odde miles which draweth neare to twice the circumference of the whole Earth And so farewell FINIS A Briefe and summary Table of the chiefest things contayned in this History Part the first THe first Plantation of Rome page 11. The seaven severall Hils of Rome and her seaven severall Rulers pag. 12. Saint Katherine of Siena pag. 13. Pope Clement the eight crowned Duke of Ferrara p. 14 Tyber had almost over-whelmed Rome p. 14. The Pilgrimes Dinner at the Popes Table p. 15 Romes Antiquities and Liberary p. 16. 17 The brazen Image of St. Peter and the-Superstition of Papists p. 18. 19 The first Plantation of Italy 22. A description of the Kingdome of Naples and of the foure Papal territories p. 23. 24 The Duke of Florence his patrimony p. 25 Romes avarice and ignorant devotion p. 28 Damnable leyes sprung from Idolatrous Loretta p. 28. 29 The teritories of Venice p. 39 The first plantation of Venice p. 39 The Venetians are sprung from the Romanes p. 41 Part the second THe antiquity of the Istrians p. 44 The Dalmatian live under subjection to the house of Austria p. 46 Ignorance and Sloth the two mothers of poverty and misery p. 48 A monster borne in Lesina p. 52 The chiefe Iles in the gulfe of Venice and of their Gouernment p. 53 Of the Common-wealth of Ragusa and the limits of the Kingdome of Slavonia p. 55 Foure thousand Spaniards starved to death p. 56 George Castriot Surnamed Scanderbeg p. 57 The invincible I le of Corfu p. 58 Vlisses was borne at Ithaca p. 60 A dangerous Sea fight p. 61 Of the I le Cephalonia p. 63 Zante inricht with Currans p. 64 Of the battel of Lepanto fought neare to Morea p. 65 The soile of Peleponesus p. 67 Of scurrile Arcadia p. 69 Of the great Begleâ—beg of Greece p. 73 Decayd Athens now Salenos p. 74 A Masse-priest slaine by a Captaine in a Bordell p. 76 The third part Candy of old had 100 Cities p. 78 The Governours and Garâ—isons of Creete subject to Venice p. 78 An escape from murderers p. 80 A French Protestant by mee released from a Galley p. 82 The pleasant valley of Suda p. 85 Dedalus Laborinth en Ida. p. 86 Of the great towne of Candy p. 88 Certaine distances from Candy to Europe Asia and Affrica p. 89 A description of al the Iles Syclades and Sporades c. 94 The beautifull Dames of Sio and rich attire p. 102. 103 The heads of 800. Florentines cut off in the Castle of Sio p. 104 A blind Cosmographer bred at Oxford p. 108 Of the pursuite of two Turkish Galleoâ—s p. 110 False testimonies of Vagabonding Greekes dispersed abroad p. 118 A perticular Description of Greece and the I le Nigroponty p. 114. 115. 116 An exact Relation of Troy and her famous Antiquities p. 120. 121 c. My passing the Hellespâ—nticke Sea to Constantinople p. 124. 125. c. The fourth Part. Bizantium re-edified by Constantine p. 133 A French Pultrone playing the Pallard at the Gallata 137 Fearefull Pestilence and Earth-quakes p. 138 The Duke of Moldavia turned Turke at Constantinâ—ple p. 143 Circumcised Turkes p. 143 Of the Turkish Church-men and their times of Prayers p. 144 Babylon lately recovered by the Persians p. 144 Of the birth of Mahomet his falling Sicknesse p. 145 Mahomets Lawes p. 147. 148 The first titles of the Popes p. 149 Mahomets promise broke p. 151 Of the Turkes Iustice and marriages p. 153. 154 Turkes Lent their opinion of Hel Paradise p. 157. 158 Of the number of all our Christian Emperours in the East and West p. 159 Of the first beginning of the Turkes p. 160 Of the great Turkes yearely Revenewes p. 163 Turkes are no Schollers yet great Politians p. 164. Of the great Forces of the great Turke p. 186. The fifth Part. Bajazet the Turkish Emperour taken by Tamberlan the Scythian King p. 172 The auncient Citty of Smyrna p. 173 Wealth is the mother of vice p. 174 The Temple of Diana in Ephesus sackt burnt and extinct p. 175 The I le of Rhodes and the Idol Collossus p. 177 Rhodes taken by Solyman the Magnificent 1522. p. 176 The Mausolacan tombe at Hericarnassus in Caria p. 181 The I le of Ciprus replanted p. 182 The Florentines attempt to conquer Cyprus p. 187 Tripoly and of Mount Lybanus p. 190 The Bishop of Eden on Lybanus p. 197 Turcomans accursed tites p. 198 The Bassa of Aleppo beheaded p. 202 Beershack on Euphrates my furthest travels in the East p. 200 Damascus and the forces of the Bassa thereof p. 206. 207 The speciall townes of the Holy Land p. 230 c. My arrivall in Ierusalem p. 232 The sixt Part. The antiquity of Ierusalem p. 238 The 4. hils of Ierusalem and the triumph of Titus p. 239 The old overthrows and present garrison of Ierusalem p. 240. The Iewish Kings and Christian Kings of Ierusalem p. 242. 243. The Temple of Salomon thrice builded and destroyed p. 251 A dangerous voyage to Iordan and to Mare Mottuum Ierico p 252. 253. 254. c. A Turpentine Rod brought from Iordan and given to King Iames. p. 258 The river Iordan and the towne of Ierico hardby p. 260 The glorious Chappell of the Holy Grave p. 266 Knights of the holy grave p. 272 The buriall place of the Kings and Queenes of Israel p. 274 Salomons fish-ponds and Christs Crub at Bethlem p. 277. 278 Lazarus tombe in Bithania and of Olivet and the Monuments there p. 282. 283 Grievous and fastidious travailing in the Desarts of Arabia p. 291. 292. 293. 294. 295. 296. 297 The nature of Camels and Dromidors and of the red Sea p. 269 The seaventh Part. Two yearely Seasons in reaping graine in Aegypt p. 301 3 Germans death in Caire p. 302 A favourable Turkish judgement p. 303 Of the great Citty of Grand-Caire p. 305 Of the length and boundes of Cayre p. 306 Of the Aegyptian Decorements p. 308 Of the nature of the Aegyptian Moores Christian Coptics their Religion p. 309 Of the Pyramides of Aegypt p. 311. 312. 313 Of the true Knowledge of the flowing of the great River Nylus p. 316. 317. 318 The alteration of Aegypt p. 321 Of the Reuenewes and Confines of Aegypt p. 322 The foure Patriarchall seas p. 324 Of the fabulous Country of Cyrene p. 325 A joyfull arrivall in Malta p. 329 The nature of
Inundation of waters Rhodes takeâ— by Solyman Souldiers should be regarded and rewarded Mausolâ—os Tombe Pamphyliâ— and Lycia The description of Cyprus The six Cities of Cyprus Trohodos a huge Hill in Cyprus Comparison of Isles Cyprus replanted The Dukes of Savoy were Kings of Cyprus The Florentines attempted to conquer Cyprus A Sea combat Christian Runnagates The Citie of Tripolie 〈◊〉 The Cedars of Libaâ—us The Prince of Libaâ—â—â— Nâ—â—torians Ioshaes toâ—be The Biâ—â—â—p of Eden◠〈◊〉 Libaâ—â—â— The Nestorian Paradicâ— The Georgianâ— Parâ—dice The tree Moufâ—â—â— The â—belfain Paradice Violence of seas waters The Turcomans opinion of God and the Devill Antiochiâ—â—â— the first Christians Frustrate of Babylon Mesopotamia Beershack Mesopotamia A notable obedience The Bassaw of Aleppo beheaded Flying pigeon with letters Syria A Caravan of Armenians Pagan flattery Turks are called Musilmans Damascus is called Sbaâ—sma The antiquities of Damascus The â—orces of the Bassaes of Damascus Savage Arabian Robbers A dangerous way Arabia Peâ—â—ea The Town of Sarepta Iacobs Bridge Canaan greatly changed The Holy Land Cana in Galilee Caesarea Philippi A counterbuâ—â—et for Loretta Libidinous leachery A villanous plot A treacherouâ— Guide Tyrus is called Sur. The ruines of Tyrus Sampsons Pillar A corrupted Caravan Samaria The Savage Arabian King Exaction of tributes Two Arabian Kings Iacobs Well The Sea-port Towns of the Holy Land A dreadfull conflict The Town of Rhama Beersheba â— grievous anger A joyful harâ—ony A dear nights Supper A foolish Ceâ—emony Ierusalems antiquity The foure hils of Ierusalem The triumph of Titus The over throwers of Ierusalem The Garriso of Ierusalem A notable observation The Iewish Kings Dukes of Iewry The Machabean Princes Christian Kings of Ierusalem The ignorance of Travellers A superstitious ceremony A flattering beggery Calphas Lodging Pilats judgement Hall Abrahams faith Mount Sinay The Temple of Salomon thrice builded and destroyed Herods the Idumean Temple Selim Selymans Temple A Voyage to Iordan A fearfull danger The length of Sodoâ—s Lake The doubtfulnes of Iordans ending Wrong informations made The River Iordan A Turpentine Rod brought from Iordan and given to King Iames. The Pilgrims three severall habits in half an houre Two sorts of rare fruits Elizeus Fountain Where Chriâ—â— fasted forty days Dreadful danger in descending the Quarantaram Saint Ieromâ— Abbey Our tributes for the Holy Grave The Holy Grave The glorious Chappell of the Holy Grave The beauty of Mount Calvary Two famous Sepulchres Where Christ was nailed to the Crosse. Seven religiâ—ous Families An abominable Idolatry Damnable intolerable superstition The Knights of the Holy Grave Certain 〈◊〉 of Monuments 〈◊〉 The burialâ— place of the Kings and Queens of Israel The lying vâ—lany of a Rogish Greek Saint Iohn the Baptists Cave Chriâ—â—s Crib at Bethleem Admirable dust Solomons Fish ponds The Town of Bethleem King Davids Palace Acaldema Ponto Nâ—hemia Brook Cedron Lazarus Tombe in â—ythania Mount Oliveâ— and the places of note thereof Sacred and singular Tombes Greedy and â—â—attering Friers The Authors good night to Ierusalem Kind Iews to us Fraâ—ks The ancient City of Gaza Burning Sands Wild Arabs selling water â—rievous and desertâ—ous travelling Savage women having their Child-bed in Caves The deaâ—h three German Gentlemen The third Castle of the Desarts The bounds of the three Arabians The scurrile Arabian Desarts The nature of Camels Dromidores Indian Spices much weakned Two seasons of riping grain in Egypt The last three Germans death in Cayre A fâ—vourable Turkish iudgâ—ment Gods provident mercies The great City of Grâ—nd Cayre The length of great Cayre the bounds thereof Divers Nations residing in Câ—yre The Egyptian decorements The Egytian Christians The 〈◊〉 Religion The nature of the Egyptâ—aâ— Moores The Garden of Balsamo The Pyramide of Aegypt The greatest Pyramide of the three The charges of the greatest Pyramide A resolute Venetian Merchant The killing of a great Crocodile The true knowledge of the flowing Nylus Many Schollers mistaken about Nylus The reason of the flowing of Nylus The Isle of Delta The confines of Egypt The alteration of Egypt The revenues of Egypt The Town of Alexandria The four Patriarchal Seas The fabulouâ— Country of Cyrene Fourâ— French Pilgrimes dead Flying fish A joyfull arrivall in Malta The Isle of Malta An invincible victory The nature of the Maltezes A Moorish Brigantine An happy arrivall The Ligurian Alpe A happy escape from murder A guard of Horsmen for a dangerous Wood. The necessiry use and honor of travels The Authors Apologie Weiste taken by Spinola The fabulous miracles of Culloin A forged miâ—acle A woman fasting fourteen years The Lake of Geneve and the River Rhone The first beginning of the Dukes of Savoy A comfortable crosse Consenza is Calabria The liberty of Bandits in Calabria Greek Albaneses fled to Calabria Two young Barons killed at combat A London ship called the Mattheâ— The divers plantations of Carthage The marine Provinces twixt Tunneis and Algier A English Pyrat Captain Ward Tremizen in Barbary The town of Tremizen decayed with Wars The thiâ—vish towne of Algier A naturall sublime policie The Barbarian Provinces twixt Egypt and Gibelterre The triall of Moorish Brides Monsieur Chatteline a French Lapidator My arrivall at Fez. Great Colledges and Hospitals The beauty and greatâ—â—sse of Fez. Poets among Barbarians in great request Heragens or Ethiopian Negroes Chatteline the French Lapidator fallen sick The tribe of the Hagans or Iamnites The wilde beasts of the Lybiâ—n Desarts The Prince 〈◊〉 the Sabunâ—ks apparell Moorish Smiths forging horsshoos out of cold Iron without fire but the â—eat of the Sun The Beglerâ—begship of Baâ—â—bary â—he hatching of Chickens without their mothers Captain Dansers employment The untimely death of Captain Danser a Fleming born The formall oath of the Knights of Malta The first denominations of Sicilia The fertility of Sicilia Towns set on heights reserve good ayre The ancient divisions of Sicilia Sicilians are brave Orators The great Counsell of Sicilia The Duke of Sona Vice-roy of Sicilia An equitable Justice for injusticesake My second view of Aetna The lowest and third 〈◊〉 of Aeâ—â—â— The combuâ—tious devalâ—ing of Aetâ—aes fire Palermo The famous City of Syracusa Trapundy The Sicilian tyrants A true compâ—rison betweeâ— the French â— the Spaniard The Sicilian customes My arrivall at Messina The death of Sir Francis Verney A comparison of irrepugnable streams A boyling Fountain in the Isle of Isha The antiquities of Putzolo The old dining room of Sybillâ— The ancient varieties of the antiquities of Putzolo The Master of a Scots ship distressed by evill misfortune The dangerous Dogs Cave neer unto Putzolo Great poverty under grâ—â—t titles The false and arrogant titles of the Pope A tract of beastly Popes and cruell villains Three severall Popes living at one time The Papists may looke here upon devillish Popes A false canoâ—ized Saint Ravenna the chief City of Româ—nia Vienna in Austria no way answerable to common fame The specialiâ— townes of Hungary The forces of the Bassa of Bâ—da Hungary is a most fertile and fruitfull soyle The first plantation of Hungary The infinite riches of Hungary A joyfull deliverance from a desperate thraldome The Tartars are mightie oppressors of Podolia in Polland A love not worthy things The Count of Tornâ— fled from Prage to Poland This Sigismond King of Poland did marry two sisters of Ferdinandos now Emperour Poland is the Nurse of Scotlands younglins Certaine approved reasons The matchlesse Lord of Chichester for vertue wisdome and valour The foure Provinces of Ireland The ignorant and sluggish life of the common Irish A foolish and superstitious errour Two intolerable abuses in Ireland The filthy corruption of Irish Priests and Wood-Carns thievish Rebels A bad uncivill Husbandry in Ireland Northerne Irish woman giving suck to their Babes behinde their shoulders The length of Ireland The manner of the Country The nature of the people An Ecclesiastick corruption in unlawfull Preachers A flattering covenant twixt Ministers and Masse Priests Ministeriall officer strangely abused My departure from Ireland to France The fantastick foolery of the French Certain caveats for strangers that goe to France Biscay in Spain is a fertile Country A lying miracle A damnable delusion of a devillish miracle The kingdom of Portugale The palace of Escuriall Escurial is rather a Monastery then Palace It is miserable travelling in Spain The long captivity of the Spaniards under the Mâ—res Naked condition conferred upon poore Toledo Malaga affrighted with the English â—leet A sad request to a mercilesse Governour His Majesties Letters and Seals misregarded An injust robbery by unjust Judges A miserable and helplesse Lamentation The mourning of Hazior a Turkish slave A speedie â— expedition for a mercilesse mischiefe My transportation from prison to the fields to be racked A stranger ought not to be accuâ—ed with strangeers without an Interpreter A mercilesse huâ—t before they begun to rack me The hams and lids of my knees were both broken O cruell and inhumane murder Heere begun my maine tortures The manneâ— how my body was first fastned to the Rack before my tortures were inflicted A cruelty beyond crueltâ—es A hellish anâ— insupportable pain A lamentable remembrance of inhumaâ—e crueltie A dreadful affrighting for 〈◊〉 to tures Alas too goâ— newâ— not to have beene true No pain so grievous as a lame man to be still tormented with gnawing vermine A politick enquiry of a damnable inquisition A damnable Inquisitor applying â—alse attributes to our blessed Lady A Sycophanticall Oration from a jugling Jebusite The fury of a mad Inquisitor to have almost slaine mee The Romish Church falls short of true antiquity universality and uniformâ—â—â—â— The Jesuits last allurements for my conversion to their sect A Condeâ—natory Sentence to death by the Inquisition A Turkish slaves charity in the bowels of compassion The deceitfulnesse of female inconstancies An impatient mind in trouble is a triple torture Gods greaâ— mercy in 〈◊〉 first discorâ—â— by a strangâ—â— These are the English Factors which first wrought my reliefe I dâ—rst not stay a shoare for feare of the Inquiâ—ition The strait of Giâ—â—lterre five leagues broad A false promise unperformed A single combat 〈◊〉 a Spanish 〈◊〉 and a Scoâ—â—â—sh trâ—vaâ—ler A falce aspertion layd on me by Papists Incompatible griefe without deserved reliefe A direction for Certificats by the Lord Keeper The Nobility and commodities of Galloway excell in goodnesse
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 Catzâ—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 Germaâ— 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 Râ—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