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A05597	The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveying of forty eight kingdomes ancient and modern; twenty one rei-publicks, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands. ... divided into three bookes: being newly corrected, and augmented in many severall places, with the addition of a table thereunto annexed of all the chiefe heads. Wherein is contayed an exact relation of the lawes, religions, policies and governments of all their princes, potentates and people. Together with the grievous tortures he suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine ... And of his last and late returne from the Northern Isles, and other places adjacent. By William Lithgow.; Most delectable, and true discourse, of an admired and painefull peregrination from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affricke	Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?	1640 (1640)	STC 15714; ESTC S108592	306,423	530

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 Th●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 ●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

The inhumane policie of the Turks to avoid civill dissention is such that the seed of Ottoman all except one of them are strangled to death Wherefore as Augustus Caesar said of Herod in the like case It is better to be the Great Turkes Dog then his Sonne His Daughters or Sisters are not so used but are given in Marriage to any Bassa whom so they affect yet with this condition the King saith to his Daughter or Sister I give thee this man to be thy slave and if he offend thee in any case or be disobedient to thy will here I give thee a Dagger to cut off his head which always they weare by their sides for the same purpose The Persians differ much from the Turks in nobilitie humanitie and activitie and especially 〈◊〉 of Religion who by contention thinke each other accursed and notwithstanding both factions are under the Mahometanicall Law Neither are the sons of the Persian Kings so barbarously handled as theirs for all the brethren one excepted are onely made blinde wanting their eyes and are alwayes afterward gallantly maintained like Princes And it hath oftentimes faln out that some of these Kings dying without procreate Heires there have of these blind sons succeeded to the Empire who have restored again the seed of that Royall Family And now the great advantage that the Turkes have daily upon the Persians is onely because of their Infantery which the Persians no wayes are accustomed with fighting alwayes on Horse-back neither are the Persians adicted or given to build Forts or Fortifications neither have they any great use of Munition but exposing themselves ever to the field in the extream hazard of battail become ever doubtfull in their victories whose courage and valour cannot be paraleld among all the people of the Eastern World as Babylon in their late and last fortunes may give sufficient testimony thereof The fifth Part. CLose bounded Hellespont Earths Mother sport I leave ' longst the Aeolid lists I Smyrna court Thence Samothrace and Rhodos I accoast Which Lilidamus Viliers manly lost The Lycian bounds and steep Pamphilian shoares I strictly view The sea Carpathian roares I land at Cyprus Seline is the place Whence I that Kingdome to Nicosia trace From Famagust fair Asia then I courted And Libanon whence Cedars were transported For Sions Temple And my toyls to crown I sight great Aleppe Syriaes Lady Town Then passing Mesopotame Chelfanes land I stay at Beershack on Euphrates strand Thence back by Damas Arabia Petrea Galilee Samaria mountainous Judea I toyling came And at Jerusalem I lodg'd neer Moriah in a Cloystred frame THe Winter expired and the Spring gone time summoned me after three moneths repose to imbrace the violence of a fiery fac'd season where having dutifully taken my leave of many worthy friends who both kindly and respectively had used mee especially the aforesaid English Ambassadour Sir Thomas Glover And the new Ambassadour Sir Paul Pinder who had lately arrived there before my departure and had been formerly Consull in Aleppo five yeers I left Constantinople and imbarked in a ship belonging to London named the Allathya whereof one Master Wylds in Ratcliffe was Master where indeed both hee and his company kindly and respectively used mee for the space of 12 days being bound for Smyrna and so wee sailed along the Coast of Bythinia in Asia minor Bythinia hath on the North Hellespont On the West Phrygia on the East Pontus and on the South Capadceia or Leuco Syria The chiefe Cities are Chalcedon where by command of the Emperour Martianus the fourth Generall Councell was assembled to repell the Heresie of Nestorius Nigh unto the side of Hellespont is Mount Stella famous for that victory which Pompey had over Mithridates And where Tamberlane with 800000 Tartarians incountred Baiazet whose Army consisted of 500000 men of which 200000 lost their lives that day And Bajazet being taken was carried about in an Iron Cage on whose necke Tamberlane used to set his foote when he mounted on horse-backe and at last beat out his owne braines against the barres of the Iron Cage the the next Cities are Nicomedia and Nyce where the first Generall Councell was kept Anno 314 to which there assembled 318 Bishops to beate downe the Arian Heresie The other Townes are Prusa and Labissa the former was built by Prusias King of Bythinia who betrayed Haniball when he fled to him for succour in the latter Haniball lyeth buried Prusa was along time the seat of the Ottoman Kings till Mahomet the first began to keep his Residence at Andrianople The chiefe Rivers are Ascanius Sangaro and Granico nigh unto which Alexander obtained the first victory against the Persians Having passed Bythinia and the Phrygian coast wee fetched up Cenchrea where Saint Paul cut his haire after his vow was performed Acts 18. 18 Being a Towne now inhabited by Grekes with a Turkish Governour and of small importance in regard of other neighbouring places that bereave them of their trafficke and because the Iewes do not much frequent here the Inhabitants are rather turned spectators to Vertue than any way inherent to necessary goodnesse want of Strangers being let one and vitious otiosity the other stop This City standeth by the sea side in the North part of Ionia but more truely on the East frontiers of Lydia Lydia hath on the West Phrigia minor on the South Ionia on the East Paphlagonia on the North-west Aeolus a part of Phrygia maior The chief Metropole is Sardis once the royall seat of Croesus the richest King in his time who in his ful prosperity was told by Solon that no man could reck on upon felicity so long as he lived because there might be great mutability of Fortune which afterward he found true The recitall of which advertisement when he was taken Prisoner by Cyrus saved his life The next City is Pergamus where Parchment was first invented and therefore called Pergamenum here was Galen borne who lived so healthfully one hundred and forty yeares the reason whereof hee thus affixeth he never eate or drunke his full ever carried some sweete perfumes with him The other Townes are Thyatira Laodicea and Philadelphia Vpon the twelfth day after the departure from Constantinople we arrived at Smirna being foure hundred miles distant This City was one of the seven Churches mentioned Revelation 2. 8. And standeth in Ionia of this place was the famous Martyr Policarpus Bishop who sometims had been Scholler to Iohn the Evangelist and living till hee was of great age was at last put to death for Christs sake It is a goodly place having a faire Haven for ships They have great trafficke with all Nations especially for fine Silke Cotten-wooll and Dimmety brought to it by the Country Peasants which strangers buy from them Truely neare unto this City I saw a long continuing Plaine abounding in Cornes Wines all sorts of fruitfull Herbage and so infinitely peopled that me thought Nature