about Jeru 

 salem. 



A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1581. 



The menu- The mountaine where the Angell tooke up Abacuck 



ments in and j^y ^^ halre, and broup^ht him to Daniel in the Lions 

 denne. 



The fountaine of the prophet Jeremie. 



The place where the wise men met that went to 

 Bethlem to worship Christ, where is a fountaine of 

 stone. 



Being come to Bethlem we sawe the place where 

 Christ was borne, which is now a chappell with two 

 altars, whereupon they say masse : the place is built 

 with gray marble, and hath bene beautifull, but now 

 it is partly decayed. 



Neere thereto is the sepulchre of the innocents slaine 

 by Herod, the sepulchres of Paul, of Jerome, and of 

 Eusebius. 



Also a litle from this monasterie is a place under 

 the ground, where the virgine Mary abode with Christ 

 when Herod sought him to destroy him. 



We stayed at Bethlem that night, and the next day 

 we went from thence to the mountaines of Judea, 

 which are about eight miles from Jerusalem, where are 

 the ruines of an olde monasterie. In the mid way 

 from the monasterie to Jerusalem is the place where 

 John Baptist was borne, being now an olde monasterie, 

 and cattell kept in it. Also a mile from Jerusalem is 

 a place called Inventio sanctae crucis, where the wood 

 was found that made the crosse. 



In the citie of Jerusalem we saw the hall where 

 Pilate sate in judgement when Christ was condemned, 

 the staires whereof are at Rome, as they told us. A 

 litle from thence is the house where the virgin Mary 

 was borne. 



There is also the piscina or fishpoole where the 

 sicke folkes were healed, which is by the wals of 

 Jerusalem. But the poole is now dry. 



The mount of Calvaria is a great church, and within 

 the doore therof, which is litle, and barred with yron, 

 and five great holes in it to looke in, like the holes 



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