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

Now we began to think of going to the Dead Seas and the River Iordan demanding what our expence would be the Fathers say 25 Livers but we all agreed not to give above 20. The Fathers sent our resolution to the Bassa and he returned answer That if we would go we should pay 22 Livers and if we would not he would have ten Livers a man we thinking our selves under his command were not willing to embroil the Convent who bear all damages as they have done for several but thanks be to God none happened in our time We all resolved to go except Mr. T. H. and one Englishman more and a Dutchman not thinking the Bassa had been in earnest but because they went not they were forced to pay ten Livers for nothing we then came to Bethany now a small Village where entring into a Grot under ground we saw a Tomb from whence they say our Saviour raised Lazarus after he had been dead so many days here we had the Bassa's guard to wait upon us for fear of the Arabs who are on the other side Iordan in the Land of Moab and often make Incursions and have sharp disputes at the end of the Lance with those that live on this side in the land of Promise The Bassa pretended he must send fifty men with us but it proved but fourteen or sixteen Having reposed a little on the ground about Nine at night we mounted our Horses and passing through the turning and winding of the Mountains came in the Morning to the foot of the Quarantine Mountain where we dismounted and making the cold Earth our Bed slept two or three hours having our Horses made fast to our Hands and the Sun rising we rose also and walked to Elisha's Fountain a stones thro● off and before the Sun was too hot we mounted our Horses at the foot of the Mountain and so began to ascend it being very steep having ascended a great height we came to the place where they say our Saviour slept when he fasted forty days and from that the Mountain received its name this place is near the height of the Mountain but the passage to the top is known only to the Arabs here is a Church over this place where some Fathers have lived till they were murthered by the Arabs Below are several Cisterns of water and Frontis pieces of Chappels but the passage to them is cut off as we were going up the thoughts of the danger of descending enters into our heads and the E. of Germanies Druggerman for these Country Languages being fearful got two Turks to conduct him down and so having all had a safe descent we rode cheerfully back to Elisha's Fountain formerly bitter but he throwing in a handful of salt the waters became sweet Here we lay till four a Clock and the heat of the Sun being over made for Iericho arrived about five where there are now only a few poor Cottages we pitched by Zacheus Tree The Inhabitants are most Arabians and some few Greeks here the Captain of the Village came to welcome our Bassa and his people mounted upon a Mare valued at a Thousand Livers Mares being only in esteem among them here we reposed under a rotten hedge till about four next morning having little pleasure in our companions the Gnats and other stinging creatures We proceed for the River Iordan arriving by day light and tarried about an hour to swim in the River the stream is strong and rapid and the force of a Man can scarce resist it it runs into the Dead Sea Our Guard were very hasty for us to be gone being afraid their Enemies should find them therefore we all made ready and set forward for the Dead Sea about two hours after in our way to the Sea we passed through a most cursed barren place not having so much as a green herb or grass and the face of the Earth was covered with Salt and though it was dry yet our Horses sunk up to the Knees We come now to the Dead Sea being about seventy or eighty Miles in breadth and about Eighteen over There is no place Visible from whence the Water which comes into it runs out again except it be under the Earth neither doth it seem to increase with the water of the River Jordan and of several other Waters that run into it It was once a fruitful Valley and compared for delight unto Paradise and called Pen●apolis of her five Cities but afterward destroyed with fire from Heaven and turned into this filthy Lake and barren desolation which doth encompass it and to try the vertue that is reported to be in the water wherein they say a man cannot sink some of our Company went into the Sea and found it impossible to get their bodies under water yea could hardly keep their legs under The Water is sulphury and the extremity of the saltness not to be exprest when they came out there was a perfect Oyl upon their bodies Our Eyes being satisfied with Curiosities and Rarities we make what haste we can back to Jerusalem The Ruins of one of the Cities that were destroyed for Sodomy now lyes good part out of the water and is supposed to be Zeboim Now the Sun gets strength and by reflection on the ground makes the heat so violent that our faces looked as if the skin were flead off by riding in the Sun from Morning till four afternoon but the Fathers being accustomed to meet with tender faced Travellers soon provided something to mitigate our pain which was much increased by the saltness of the water of the Dead Sea this night we took little pleasure in eating but more in sleeping having had but little in this Voyage Having now visited all the places in the Holy Land which Pilgrims usually do we prepare for our return Iune 9. We being resolved to set forward in the Morning the Father Guardian came and gave us his blessing and sprinkled us with Holy Water desiring us to excuse our Bad Treatment and that if at any time we had been distasted we would pass it over but we knew it was a complement for we had the Civilest Entertainment imaginable and very far from disgusting us for they were not only ready to be our servants but our slaves yea my honest name sake Father Tomaso never ceased from Morning to Night from bringing us either Victuals or Drink or asking us whether we wanted any thing and now for this his fourteen days service we were no ways capable to recompence him for they would take no money but for our Victuals and some other small services we therefore presented to the Convent thirty Livers a piece and some that had servants more The Father Procurator receiving it they entred all our names in a Book and the sums we gave the Book where the names only were written we had a view of and took a Copy of all the English-mens that were in it from the year 1661. to this day

Years continually till it was Finished The Glory and Magnificency thereof you may read in the Scripture The Temple of the Sepulchre at the first Building was highly Reverenced by the Christians of those parts and even until this Day it is much resorted to both by Pilgrims from all parts of the Romish Church and by divers Gentlemen of the Reformed Churches partly for curiosity and partly for Antiquity of the place It is Farmed from the Turk and kept by the Popes Creatures whosoever is admitted to the sight of this Sepulchre payeth nine Crowns to the Turkish Officers so that this Tribute is worth to the Grand Seignior Eight Thousand Ducats Yearly And thus much briefly for the Description of the Holy Land or Land of Promise A Strange and True ACCOUNT Of the Late TRAVELS OF TWO English Pilgrims And what Admirable Accidents befell them in their Journey to Ierusalem Grand Cairo Alexandria c. 1. Christs Sepulchre 3 Dives House 2 Davids House 4. v. Marys House Page But now to my journey toward the desart of Arabia which I was of necessity to pass before I could come to the Holy Land we departed from the Town Philbits travelling all night in company with the Caravan of Damasco and the 14th at 9 of the clock we pitched our tents at Baharo in the land of Gozan From thence we departed that night and the 15 at night we pitched at Salbia which is to the eastward of the land of Gozan and stands on the borders of the Arabian Desart there we stayed two days for fear of the wild Arabes and parted thence 17. We passed that night over a great bridg under which the salt water standeth This water comes out of the Sea from the parts of Damietta and by mens hands was cut out of that place some 150 miles into the main Land by Ptolomoeus King of Egypt who purposed to join the Red sea and the Mediterranean but when he foresaw that if he had gone through all his Country had been quite drowned he gave it over and built a bridge there to pas● over This place parteth Arabia and Egypt and no sooner had we past this bridg but we were set upon by the wild Arabes and notwithstanding we were more than 1000 persons yet a Camel laden with Callicoes was taken from us 4 of our men hurt and one mortally wounded and the Arabes ran away with the prey we being unable to help it because it was night The next day we pitched by a well of brackish water But I forgot to tell you that my fellow Pilgrim Mr. John Burrel escaped very narrowly in the last nights bickering there we rested our selves till 3 of the Clock in the afternoon which they call Lasara for the Arabians and Egyptians divide the day into four parts we departed the next morning to a Castle in the desart called Carga which is one of the three Castles which the Turks keep in the desarts to de●end all travellers from the wild Arabes Therefore there we paid a certain tax which was six●y pieces of silver of two pence a piece value for each man or boy and seventy six pieces for a Camel laden and fourteen ●or a Mule Having paid this imposition we departed and pitched again the 19. at another brackish well from whence setting onward we pitched the 20. of March at the second Castle called Arris k●pt also by the Turks in the said desarts where our tax was but twenty pieces of silver for each passenger and thirty for a Camel From thence we were guided by many Soldiers to the third Castle called Rachael making one long Journey of 24 hours together Here it is said that the Kings of Egypt and Judea fought many great Battles which to me seemed very unlikely because there is nothing to relieve an army withal except sand and salt water There we paid ten pieces every passenger and 20 for a beast So departing thence the 22. in the morning we came to Gaza in Pa●estine a goodly fruitful Country and there ●e were quitted of all the desarts In this town ● saw the place where as they told us Samp●●n pull'd down the two Pillars and slew the ●hilistins and surely it appears to be the same town by reason of the situation of the Country There we paid 22 pieces for each beast and ten each passenger From thence we went to a place called in Arabian Canuie but by the Christians Bersheba being upon the borders of Judea where we paid but 2 pieces of silver each one and four for a beast Departing thence the 23. in the morning we pitched our Tents upon a Green close under the walls of Ramoth in Gilead there I stayed all day and wrote eight letters for England by the Caravan which went for Damasco to be conveyed to Constantinople and so for England next day being the 24 in the morning I with other Christians set toward Jerusalem and the great Caravan went for Damasco but we pitched short that night at a place call'd in Arabian Cudechelanib being 16 miles from Hebron where the Sepulchre of our father Abraham is and 5 little miles from Jerusalem From thence departing in the morning being our Lady day in Lent and 9 before-noon I saw the City of Jerusalem when kneeling down and saying the Lords Prayer I gave God most hearty Thanks for conducting me thither to behold so holy a plac● with my eyes whereof I had read so ofte● before Coming within a furlong of th● gates I with my Companion Mr. Joh● Burral went singing and praising Go● till we came to the West Gate of the City and there we stayed because it is not lawful for a Christian to enter unadmitted My companion advised me to say I was a Greek only to avoid going to Mass but I not having the Greek tongue refused so to do telling him even at the entry of the Gate that I would neither deny my Country nor Religion whereupon being demanded who we were Mr. Iohn Burrel answering in the Greek tongue told them that he was a Greek And I an Englishman This gave him admittance to the Greek Patriark but I was seized on and cast into Prison before I had stayed a full hour at the Gate for the Turks absolutely denied that they had ever heard either of my Queen or Country or that she paid them any Tribute The Pater Guardian who is the defender of all Christian Pilgrims and the principal procurer of my imprisonment because I did not offer my self under his protection but confidently stood to be rather protected under the Turk than the Pope made the Turk so much my enemy that I was reputed to be a spy and so by no means could I be released from the Dungeon Now give me leave to tell you how it pleased God that very day to deliver me and grant me pass as a Protestant without yielding to any other ceremony then carrying a Wax-candle onely far beyond my expectation Here let me remember you

that when I stayed at Ramoth in Gilead where I wrote the 8 Letters for England having leisure I went to a Fountain to wash my foul linnen and being earnest about my business suddenly there came a Moor to me who taking my cloaths out of my hand and calling me by my name said he would help me You need not doubt but this was some amazement to me to hear such a man call me by my name and in a place so far distant from my friends country and acquaintance which he perceiving boldly thus spake in the Frank tongue why Captain I hope you have not forgotten me for it is not yet 40 days since you set me a-land at Alexdria with the rest of those passengers you brought from Argier in your ship called the Trojan aud here is another in this Caravan whom you likewise brought in company with me that would not be a little glad to see you I demanded of him if he dwelt there he answered me no saying that he and his fellow were going in that Caravan to Damasco which place they call Sham and from thence to Begdat which we call Babylon and from thence to Mecha to make a Hodge for so they are called when they have been at Mecha moreover he told me that he dwelt in the City of Fesse in Barbary This man in my mind God sent to be the means of my immediate delivery For after I had taken good notice of him I well remembred that I saw him in my ship though one man among 300 is not very readily known for so many brought I from Argier into those parts of different Nations as Turks Moors Jews and Christians I desired this man to bring me to the sight of his other companion which having washed my Linnen he did and him I knew very readily These two concluded that one of them would depart thence with the Caravan and the other go along with me to Ierusalem which was the Moor before mentioned and such kind care had the Infidel of me that he would not leave me unaccompanied in this strange Land which I cannot but impute to Gods especial providence for my deliverance out of Prison or else had I been left in a most miserable case When this Moor saw me thus imprisoned in Ierusalem my dungeon being right against the Sepulchre of Christ although he wept yet he bid me be of good comfort and went to the Basha of the City and to the Saniacke before whom he took his oath that I was a Mariner of a ship who had brought two hundred and fifty or 300 Turks and Moors into Egypt from Argier and Tunis their journey being unto Mecha This Moor in regard he was a Mussel-man prevailed so much with them that returning with six Turks back to Prison he called me to the door and there said unto me that if I would go the house of the Pater Guardian and yield my self under his Protection I should be forced to no Religion but mine own except it were to carry a Candle to the which I willingly condescended So paying the charges of the Prison I was presently delivered and brought to the Guardians Monastery where the Pater coming to me took me by the hand and bade me welcome marvelling I would so much err from Christianity as to put my self rather under the Turks than his Protection I told him what I did was because that I would not go to Mass but keep my Conscience to my self He replyed that many English-men had been there but being Catholiques went to Mass telling the Turks at the Gates entrance that they were French-men for the Turks know not what you mean by the word Englishman advising me further that when any of my country-men undertook the like travel at the Gates of Ierusalem they should term themselves either Frenchmen or Brittans because they are well known to the Turks He further asked me how old our Queen was and what was the reason she gave nothing to the maintenance of the Holy Sepulchre as well as other Kings and Princes did with divers other frivolous Questions whereto I answered accordingly This day being spent even to twilight Mr. Iohn Burrel who passed as a Greek without any trouble came in unto us being nevertheless confin'd to this Monastery or else he might not stay in the City for such sway do the Papists carry there that no Christian stranger can have admittance there but he must be Protected under them or not enter the City Mr. Burrel and I being together in the Court of the Monastery 12 fat fed Friers came forth unto us each of them carrying a Wax candle burning and two spare Candles beside one for Mr. Burrel the other for me Another Frier brought a great Bason of warm water mingled with Roses and other sweet Flowers and a Carpet being spread on the ground and Cushions in Chairs set orderly for us the Pater Guardian came and set us down giving each of us a Candle in our hands then came a Friar and pull'd off our hose and setting the Bason on the Carpet washed our feet When the Friar began to wash the twelve Friars began to sing continuing so till our feet were washed which being done they went along singing and we with the Guardian came to a Chappel in the Monastery where one of them began an Oration in form of a Sermon tending to prove how meritorious it was for us to visit the holy Land and see those sanctified places where our Saviours feet had trod The sermon being ended they brought us unto a chamber where our supper was prepared there we fed somewhat fearfully in regard that strange Victuals have as strange qualities but committing our selves to God and their outward appearing Christian kindness we fell to heartily supt very bountifully and after praising God were lodged decently Thus much for my first entertainment in Ierusalem which was the 25. of March being our Lady day in Lent Now follows what the Friars afterward shewed me being there to appointed by the Pater Guardian Early the next morning we arose and having saluted the Pater Guardian he appointed us seven Friars and a Trouchman so forth we went to see all the holy places in the City which were to be seen except those in Sepulchra Sancta for that required a whole days works and at every place where we came we kneeled down and said the Lords prayer The first place of note was the Judicial next the house of Veronica Sancta and demanding what Saint that was they told me it was she that did wipe our saviours face as he passed by in his Agony Descending a little lower in the same street they shewed me the way which our Saviour Christ went to crucifying called by them Via Dolorosa Then on the Right Hand in the same street I was shewn the house of the Rich Glutton at whose Gate poor despised Lazarus lay Holding on our way down this street we came to a turning Passage on the

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

where our Saviour first appeared to her after his Resurrection I might give you a particular description of the Adornment of these places but to be short every one have Lamps burning at them some are paved with Marble others are hung with Pictures the place where our Saviour was laid down to be nailed to the Cross is paved with Marble also but in the exact place where the Cross stood the Marble is covered over with Silver with Silver Lamps and Wax candles continually burning and our Saviour Crucified standing on it the Sepulchre also is covered with Marble with Silver Lamps continually burning on it so hath the Anointing Stone you must go into the Sepulchre bare foot as also on Mount Calvary Here all sorts of Christians have their Churches The Greeks have the best the Latines the Armenians the C●pty's and the Syrians have each of them Churches here The Greeks and Latines are the two powerful Religions in the Temple and with great Sums of money and the credit they have at Stambul or Constantin●ple buy these Holy Places out of one anothers hands the other Parties are poor and squeez'd into a small part of the Temple The Latines once offered ten thousand Livers for a piece of the Cross which the Greeks bought out of their hands These Religious People bear little respect one to another speaking very basely each of other After our Procession we went to view all the places and Churches again the Greeks have a place in the middle of their Church which they say is the middle of the World they have another place by the Prison of Christ with two holes to put the Feet in there is also a Narrow Passage between two Pillars which is in imitation of the streightness of the Path to Heaven which the Greeks Creep through In the Church of the Syrians is the intended S●pulchre of Ioseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus And near the Anointing Stone is a Tomb where Godfrey and Baldwin Kings of Ierusalem are buried In the same place is the Rent of the Rock which begins above near the place where our Saviour was Crucified and in that Rent they say Adams Head was found when our Saviour gave up the Ghost Thus having seen the Temple we returned to t●e Convent May 28. we went out of the City at Damascus Gate and turning on the right came to one of the Fish-ponds of the old City and a quarter of a Mile further to the Gro● where Ieremiah lived when he Wrote his Lamentations on the left hand in the entrance is a Led● in the Rock about a Story high where they say Ieremiah slept and below over against the Door is a hole intended for his Sepulchre and passing through a Ruinate Door you come into the Y●rd where his Well is being a very good Spring of sweet Water there you pay one Liver afterwards passing along the side of a Mountain that lies level with the City a little beyond Ieremiahs Tomb we came to the Sepulchre of the Kings the entrance into the first Room was so small and low that we were forced to creep in in which there were seven Sepulchres cut out of the Rock in the second Room were eight and in the third Room twenty six and many more in several other Rooms One of the Rooms hath a Door of Stone Cut out of the Rock and shuts and opens as a Door with Hinges this Door belongs to the Room wherein Iehosaphat was Buried his Coffin is of Stone with a Cover to it and is very neatly Wrote on the sides with Flowers as several of them are also in the first Room but they know not what Kings they are there is also one ●ther Chamber into which we crept so that there are in all 42 Burying places under Ground to which there is but one door to enter all adorned with Admirable Workmanship which I being unskilled in am unfit to express in proper Terms and so we return'd to the Convent entring the City at the same Gate May 29. we reposed some of our company being a Marking May 30. we took Horse to go for Bethlehem and went out at the West Gate called Ioppa Gate and turning on the left hand and taking the lower Path we passed along the Road that the Virgin Mary brought our Saviour when She came to offer him at the Temple and half a mile from the City is the place where the Tree Tirabintha Grew which the Virgin Mary sat under to give him Suck but the Tree being Cut down the place is incompassed with a Wall On the left hand you see Davids house when he spied Bathsheba washing her self on the right a little out of the Road is old Simeons and Elias House and a quarter of a Mile further is a Well where the Wise Men first saw the Star a little further is the Ground where the Reapers were at work when Habakkuk coming to bring them Meat the Angel took him up by the Hair of the Head and carried him into Babylon to Daniel in the Lions Den afterward we saw Iacobs House and a hill like a Sugar Loaf where the Franks remained forty Years after they were driven out of Ierusalem next is a Monastery of Monks of the Order of St. Tavola Paula Romana who when they die are Buried at the Convent in Bethlehem A Mile further is the place where the Angels appeared to the Shepherds and cryed Gloria in Excelsis c. When our Saviou● was Born where there hath been a Convent but now there only remains an Arched Vault where we paid Money to the Arabs who when they espy any Franks going thither Ride Post before to take Possession of the place and get something from them A quarter of a Mile from hence in the way to Solomons Cisterns is the Village of the Shepherds on the back part whereof is a Well of which they say the Virgin Mary desired to Drink but the Inhabitants denying to draw her any Water it presently Overflowed for her to Drink a little way from this Village is Iosephs House and a while after we came to Solomons Gardens lying shelving At the bottom of them is the Road from Grand Cairo and round the Top passes the Aqueduct which feeds Ierusalem with Water from thence we saw Tekoa standing on a high Hill the water comes from the Fountains which feed Solomons Cisterns passing a Mile along by the Aqueduct we came to Solomons Cisterns which are Three the first had no Water in it and might be about 250. Yards long sixty broad and of a great depth the second had little water something less in Compass the third was full of Water and as big as the first they run one into another and are fed by the Spring that feeds the City The Fathers say that they were made ●o Swim in they being built with steps for a Man to go down but seem rather intended for a reserve of Water for the City or the Gardens having passage to both near the