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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35242	A journey to Jerusalem, or, A relation of the travels of fourteen English-men in the year 1669 from Scanderoon, to Tripoly, Joppa, Ramah, Jerusalem, Bethlem, Jericho, the River Jordan, the Dead Sea, and back again to Aleppo : with an exact account of all the remarkable places and things in their whole journey / in a letter from T.B. in Aleppo to his friend in London ; together with a map and brief account of the ancient and modern state of those countries.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1672 (1672)	Wing C7341; ESTC R31344	27,941	139

A Journey to Jerusalem OR A RELATION OF THE Travels of Fourteen English-Men in the Year 1669. From Scanderoon to Tripoly Joppa Ramah Ierusalem Bethlem Jericho the River Jordan the Dead Sea And back again to Aleppo With an Exact Account of all the Remarkable Places and Things in their whole JOURNEY In a Letter from T. B. in Aleppo to his Friend in London Together with a Map and brief Account of the Ancient and Modern State of those Countries London Printed by T. M. for N. Crouch in Exchange-Alley over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil 1672. A Iourney to IERVSALEM in the year 1669 The Temple of the Sepulcher Ierusalem as it now is London ●●●●ted for N Crouch in Exchange 〈…〉 To the Reader THis Relation comming to my Hands I thought it might be some Diversion to Observe what the Ignorant are made to Believe of those once Famous Places And though others have formerly Treated of these Parts yet we have hardly had an Exact Account since Mr. Sandys which being so long since No doubt some things are Altered some Worn out of Memory and it may be many more Legends Added According as it may stand with the Interest and Profit of the Priests If the Stile be not so Polite and Curious as might be Wisht I dare Assure the Reader that the Author never intended it for Publike Veiw but Writ it only as a Letter to satisfy the desire of his Intimate Friends wherein Men do not commonly so much Study Elloquence as plainess and Truth The last whereof I Suppose the Author is Guilty of because he had no Temptation to do Otherwise for I think it is not much Material to him whether it be Believed or noe And therefore you may Read and Judg of it as you Please A Brief Description of Palestine with an Account of the Ancient and Modern State of those Countries IN Former Ages this was One of the most Famousest Provinces of Syria Called First The Land of Canaan from Canaan the Son of Cham who by his often Chasings was driven to Possess and Inhabite the same Secondly It was called the Land of Promise because the Lord had Promised it to the Patriarcks Abraham Isaack and Jacob and their Seed Thirdly Jsrael of the Israelites so called from Jacob who was Sur-named Israel Fourthly Judea from the Jews or People of the Tribe of Juda. Fifthly Palestine by Ptolomays and others quasi Philistini The Land of the Philistines a potent Nation that dwelt there Sixthly The Holy Land so Named by the Christians because herein was Wrought by Christ the Work of our Salvation This Country is Situated in the midst of the World Between the Third and Fourth Climates the longest Day being Fourteen Hours and a quarter between the Midland Sea and Arabia from which it is Bulwarked beyond Jordan with a continual Ridg of Mountaines on the East lyes Celosgoia and Arabia Petrea on the South Idumea the Wilderness of Pharam and Egypt in the West a part of Phenicia and the rest hath the Mediterranean-Sea and on the North are the Mountaines of Libanus and a part of Phenicia It is distant from the Equinoctial Thirty one Degrees extending to Thirty Three so that in length from Dan unto Bersheba it containeth not more then Four Hundred Miles and where it is Broadest not Fifty This Famous Land was once commended above all Countries under the Sun especially in regard of the Salubritie and Wholsomeness of the Ayr being Seated under a Temperate Clime where the Winter is not too Cold nor the Summer too Hot and for Fertility a Land that Floweth with Milk and Hony Adorned with Beautified Mountaines and delightful Valleys the Rock producing Excellent Waters and no part empty of Delight or Profit for the Soyle yeilds abundance of all Fruits and Increase This Land aboundeth in sweet Springs and pleasant Pastures where they feed a great many Flocks of Sheep and herds of Cattle and Cowes which give excellent Milk as is in any Country in the World There is also brave Hunting and Hawking for Deere Goats Hares Partridges Quailes and other Birds Likewise they have all kind of Fowle also there are great store of Lyons Beares and Wolves found in Abundance The Land of Canaan was heretofore divided into Thirty Kingdomes and Kings when the Israelites Conquered it the most of the Ancient inhabitants being for their Sins by God Excluded the Land and put to the Sword by the Israelites The Israelites Ruled this Land about Foure Hundred Years by Princes and Judges till the time of Samuel These Princes or Judges were not all of one Tribe but the Best Gravest and Eldest were Selected and Chosen out of every Tribe Afterwards the Israelites growing weary of this Government at their Earnest request the Lord appointed them a King and so their Government was Changed into a Monarchie which continued many Ages but in process of time the Israelites endured many Miseries and Afflictions till at last they saw the utter Ruine and subvertion of their Kingdome What Alteration hapened to this Nation and with how many several Wars they were Plagued either because of their own stifneckedness that they would not be Obedient to their own Prince or brook any forreign Government or that for their Rebellion and Sins the Wrath of God was oftentimes Kindled against them or that Forreigne Princes were Ambitious to Incorporate this happy Land Holy Writ and Historigraphers Witness the same at large for how many times were they Subdued and brought into Slavary and Bondage because of their Sins and that they did not Govern and behave themselves well for sometimes their Necks were brought under the Yoakes of their Neighbours as the Egyptians Caldeans Meads Persians Macedonians and Romans yea and would never cease by their Rebellions Seditions and Conspiracies till they had brought their Government and Countrey to utter Destruction by Persecuting and putting to Death the Saints and Prophets sent them from God yea and at last Crucifying the Son of God the Lord of Glory and the Saviour of Man-kind by their Horrible and Murderous Hands and Nailing him to the Cross And finally wishing that his Innocent Bloud should be on them and their Children Which accordingly soon after happened to the utter Desolation of their Countrey the Romans laying wast and levelling to the Ground the Magnificent Structures and Buildings thereof destroying and burning Jerusalem the Temple and all the Ornaments thereof so that herein was verified the Prophecy of Christ while he was upon the Earth that one Stone should not be left upon Another And as for the People Divine Venegance did continually pursue them till the most part of them were destroyed and the rest Dispersed through out the World even to this Day For First The Inhabitants of Cesarea slew of the Jews in one Day about Twenty Thousand and such as fled were taken and Imprisoned by Florus the Leiutenant of Judea To Revenge this Slaughter the Jews set upon the Syrians in which

Suck but the Tree being Cut down the place is incompassed with a Wall On the left hand you see Davids House where he was when he spied Bathsheba Washing her self on the right Hand a little out of the Road is old Simeons House and Elias House and a quarter of a Mile further you come to a Well where the Wise Men first saw the Star a little further is the ground where the Reapers were at work when Habbakuk comming to bring them Meat the Angel took him up by the hair of the Head and carried into Babylon to Daniel in the Lions Den afterward we saw Jacobs House and a hill like a Sugar Loaf where the Franks remained forty Years after they were driven out of Jerusalem next is a Monastery of Monks of the order of St. Tavola Paula Romana who when they dye are Buryed at the Convent in Bethlehem A Mile further is the place where the Angels appeared to the Sheppards and sayd Gloria in excelsis c. when our Saviour was Born where there hath been a Convent but now there only remaines 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 Shephards on the backpart whereof is a Well of which they say the Virgin Mary defired 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 Josephs House and a little after we came to Solomons Garden lying shelving At the bottom of them is the Road from Gran Cairo and round the Top passes the Aqueduct which feeds Jerusalem 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 two hundred and fifty Yards long and sixty Yards broad and of a great depth the second it had little Water and was 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 to Swim in they being built with steps for a Man to goe down but they seem rather to be intended for a reserve of Water for the City or the Gardens they having passage to both neer the Gardens there is an ill-contrived Castle where a few Villains inhabit to whom we paid one Liver per Man for leave to goe into the Grot where the Springs are that feed the City and the Cisterns the Grot is large and hath three Springs in it and a large passage cut through the Rock toward the Cisterns passable by a Man but we went not to the end of it We mounted our Horses to proceed on our Journy leaving the Castle on the Right Hand and at a distance we saw St. Georges Church where the Fathers say the Chaines remain wherewith St. George was bound which will presently cure a Mad-man if he bound therewith After an hour and a halfes Riding we came neer to Bethlehem where passing through a narrow Lane the Guard consisting of four or five Musquetiers received five Livers of every one of us and our Druggerman that went with us received three and arriving at the Convent we payd one for our entrance and after our being welcomed by the Fathers we took our repose till five of the Clock in the Evening and then we prepared to goe in Procession to the Holy Places in the same manner as we did at the Temple in Jerusalem the Places we Visited were these 1 The Place where our Saviour was Born 2 The Tomb of St. Joseph to whom the Virgin Mary was espoused 3 St. Innocents Tomb. 4 The place where St. Jerom lived when he translated the Bible into Latin 5 St. Jeroms Praying place 6 St Jeroms Tomb. 7 St Pauls Tomb. 8 St. Eustachias her Danghter 9 The Sepulcher of St. Eusebius Abbot of Bethlehem 10 We return to the Chappel of St Catherena which they say was built by St. Panla Next is the great Church without the Convent which hath forty eight Pillars of Marble about three Yards long all in one Peice At Evening we went to visit the place of our Saviours Birth which formerly belonged to the Latins till the Greeks bought it out of their Hands so that now the Latins when they goe their Procession Pray at that Door by which they formerly entred The Precipior hath two Doors one exactly over against the other which are well Lined with Carved Iron and strengthed with Iron Spikes We went in Bare-foot on the Right hand in the entrance is the place they say where our Saviour was Born which is Lined with Marble and in the midle of the Room there is a little place covered with Silver by which they set a Dish to receive your Charity On the left Hand is the Manger where the Virgin Mary laid our Saviour which is Lined with Marble and at the end of the Manger on the Right Hand is the Picture of St. Jerom naturally in the Marble which the Fathers esteem as a Miracle Over against this Manger is the place where the three Wise Men stood when they came to Worship our Saviour and at the further end of this place in a corner is a hole made up up with Marble wherein they say the Virgin Mary put the Water when she had washed her hands Over which a Lamp Burns continually and there are also a great many Lamps burning in the other Places Over this Precipio in the great Church is the Altar of Circumcision where our Saviour was Circumcised We having seen what was Rare at Bethlem May thirty One early in the Morning we Rose to proceed in our Journey in which we saw these Places following 1 The Grot where the Virgin Mary hid her self when she was Warned to Fly into Egypt her Milk running out of her Brests there made the Earth turn White which Earth the Catholicks do very much esteem 2 Davids Cisterns 3 The Grot wherein the Virgin Mary and Joseph lived before they could get a House 4 The Tomb of Rachel Jacobs Wife which the Turks do also much esteem 5 The Feild of Sennacharib where the Angel of the Lord flew in one Night One hundred eighty 5000. of the Syrians in this place is a Village which is called Botechelle where the Fathers affirm no Turk can live 6 The place where the Pillars of the Convent of Ramath were built 7 The Vinyard from whence the Spyes of the Land of Canaan took the Cluster of Grapes to show the fruitfulness of the Land there is also the Fountain where Philip Baptized the Queen of Sheba's Eunuch 9 The Desarts