JOHN LOCKE A.D. 



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 and so sit downe upon the hatches to eate, for stand we 



could not, for that the Seas in the very port at an anker 



went so high as if wee had bene in the bay of Portugall 



with stormy weather. The reason is, as the Mariners 



said to me, because that there meete all the waves from 



all places of the Straights of Gibraltar, and there breake, 



and that in most calmes there go greatest seas, whether 



the winde blow or not. 



The 28. the weather growing somewhat calme, wee 

 went on land and rested our selves for that day, and the 

 next day we set forward toward the city of Jerusalem. 



What I did, and what places of devotion I visited in 

 Jerusalem, and other parts of the Holy land, from this 

 my departure from Jaffa, untill my returne to the said 

 port, may briefly be scene in my Testimoniall, under the 

 hand & scale of the Vicar generall of Mount Sion, which 

 for the contentment of the Reader I thought good here 

 to interlace. 



UNiversis & singulis praesentes litteras inspecturis 

 salutem in Domino nostro Jesu Christo. Attestamur 

 vobis ac aliis quibuscunque, qualiter honorabilis vir 

 Johannes Lok civis Londoniensis, Alius honorabilis viri 

 Guilhelmi Lok equitis aurati, ad sacratissima terras sanctae 

 loca personaliter se contulit, sanctissimum Domini nostri 

 Jesu Christi sepulchrum, e quo die tertia gloriosus a 

 mortuis resurrexit, sacratissimum Calvariae montem, in 

 quo pro nobis omnibus cruci affixus mori dignatus est, 

 Sion etiam montem ubi coenam illam mirificam cum 

 discipulis suis fecit, & ubi spiritus sanctus in die sancto 

 Pentecostes in discipulos eosdem in linguis igneis de- 

 scendit, Olivetique montem ubi mirabiliter coelos ascendit, 

 intemerat^ virginis Marias Mausoleum in Josaphat vallis 

 medio situm, Bethaniam quoque, Bethlehem civitatem 

 David in qua de purissima virgine Maria natus est, ibique 

 inter animalia reclinatus, pluraque loca alia tam in Hier- 

 usalem civitate sancta terre Judaeas, quam extra, a 

 modernis peregrinis visitari solita, devotissime visitavit, 



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