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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

the Prophet where they shewed his usual place of sleeping and his house standeth so upon a hill as from thence I saw Bethlehem afar off Thence we went to an old ruinated house which they told me was Iacobs which may the better appear to be so for in the field thereto adjoining is the tomb of Rachel Iacobs Wife and some two Miles from this tomb is a Town in the same field called Bethesula the Inhabitants whereof are all Christians In this great field being between Ierusalem and Bethlehem did lie the camp of Senacherib when he besieged Ierusalem From hence we rode to the field where the Angels brought Tydings of great joy to the Shepherds which is two Miles from Bethlehem and thence we rode to Bethlehem to the M●nastery wherein were about ten Friars who welcomed me very kindly and brought me first into a great Church then into a large Entry wherein I saw the name of Mr. Hugo Stapers twice set one above another and between them both I set my name Then they guided me down the stairs into a Vault where was a Chappel built in the place of our Saviours Nativity enclosing both it and the Manger wherein Christ was laid and also the place wh●re he was presented with gifts by the wisemen Over thi● Chappel is a great Church ●uilt by Queen Helena mother to Constantine ●he Great as they say and further I saw di●ers Tombs of holy men and others Going up to the top of the Church I saw upon the ●eads the name of Mr. Hugo Stapers again in●raven which made me look the more ear●estly for some other Englishm●ns names but ●inding none I graved my name and came ●way then went we in and dined with the ●riars After Dinner they brought me to a ●lace where the Virgin Mary hid her self ●hen search was made to kill the Children ●o taking my leave of Bethlehem giving the ●riars three pieces of Gold for my Dinner ●nd my company with me being Eight in ●umber mounting our Asses we rode to the ●ell where King Davids three Captains ●etched water for him through the whole ●ost of the Philistines which standeth a little ●ay from Bethlehem towards Ierusalem ●nd hath three places to draw water up Hence went we presently back to Ierusalem entring the gate at four a clock afternoon and at five the Turks let us into the Sepulchra Sancta each of us paying nine pieces of Gold for our entrance No sooner were we in but they locked the Gates so there I stayed till 11 of the clock the next day and then came we forth Now follows what I saw in Sepulchra Sancta First I observed hanging without the Gate at least 100 lines or strings and in the Gate is a great hole whereat a little Child may easily creep in whereof demanding the reason they told me that the hole served to give victuals at for them which lie within the Church which are above 300 persons men and women all Christians and there they live continually night and day and can have no passage in or out but when the Turks open the Gate for some Pilgrim which happeneth not sometimes in 14 days Wherefore these Christian Lodgers in the Church have their whole houshold there and boarded lodgings built for them The strings hanging at the Gate have each one a Bell fastned at the lodgings and when their servants which are without bring them any meat each rings the Bell belonging to his houshold and so come accordingly each knowing hi● own Bell for the receipt of his food The several sorts of Christians which I saw in this Church I will in order describe 1. The Romans who bear the greatest sway 2. The Greeks for they be next in number to the Romans yet little better then slaves to the Turk 3. The Armenians who have been so long Servants to the Turk that having forgot their own Language they use all their Ceremonies in the Arabian Tongue The 4th sort of Christians are Nestorians who are likewise slaves to the Turk and have no other Language than the Arabian The 5th Abassines being People of the Land of Prestor Iohn The sixth Iacobites that are Circumcised Christians but slaves likewise to the Turk All these Christians in name have bought their several places in the Church and by-rooms for ease being never fewer of all these six sorts than 250 or 300 continually there lying and Praying after their manner The places where they ordinarily go to their Devotions are thus as the Roman Friars brought me to them 1. The Pillar whereat our Saviour was whipped 2. The place where he was imprisoned while they were preparing or making his Cross. 3. Where the Souldiers divided his Garments 4. Where the Cross was found by Q. Helena which is at the foot of Mount Calvary and hard by that is the Chappel of the Queen 5. The place where Chris● was Crowned with Thorns which I could not see till I give the Abassines that kept it two pieces of Silver 6. The place where the Cross being laid on the ground our Saviour was nailed unto it 7. The place on the top of Mount Calvary where the Cross stood when he suffered 8. The Rock that rent at his crucifying which is worth observation for it is slit like as if cleft with Wedges and Beetles from the top to the two third parts downwards as it were through the brow and breast of the Rocks The rent is so great in some places that a Man might hide himself in it and grows downward less and less 9. The place where the three Maries Anointed Christ after he was dead 10. Where he appeared to Mary Magdelen like a Gardiner And thence we came to the Sepulchre it self which is the last place where they use Prayers From whence I went to see the Tomb● of Baldwin and Godfrey of Bulloigne An● returning back to the Sepulcher I measure● the distance between place and place fro● five of the Clock before night until next da● at Eleven at my coming forth writing dow● all things I thought worth notice My Co●panion Mr. Iohn Burrel and I went thence 〈◊〉 the Pater Guardian to Dinner where we hear● that five English-men were arrived at the City Gates travelling towards Aleppo their names were Mr. William Bedle Preacher to the English Merchants at Aleppo Mr. Edward Abbot Servant to Sir Iohn Spencer Mr. Ieffery Kerbie Servant to Mr. P. Banning and Leigiers for them in Aleppo with two other young men Iohn Elkins and Iasper Tymme These five hearing of my being there came all to the House and though they saw not my Imprisonment nor were with me at the sight of those things in and about Ierusalem can witness that they were acquainted therewith at the Gates and with other truths beside These with my Companion Mr. Iohn Burrel I left behind in Ierusalem departing thence to see other places in the Country of Palestine But let me first tell what I observed in the Cities Situation because

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