LAURENCE ALDERSEY ad. 



1581. 

 of taverne doores in London, they sit that are appointed 

 to receive our money with a carpet under them upon 

 a banke of stone, & their legs a crosse like tailors : 

 having paid our money, we are permitted to go into 

 the church : right against the church doore is the 

 grave where Christ was buried, with a great long stone 

 of white marble over it, and rayled about, the outside of 

 the sepulchre is very foule, by meanes that every man 

 scrapes his name and marke upon it, and is ill kept. 



Within the sepulchre is a partition, & in the further 

 part thereof is a place like an altar, where they say 

 masse, and at the doore thereof is the stone where- 

 upon the Angell sate when he sayde to Marie, He is 

 risen, which stone was also rowled to the doore of the 

 sepulchre. 



The altar stone within the sepulchre is of white 

 marble, the place able to conteine but foure persons, 

 right over the sepulchre is a devise or lanterne for 

 light, and over that a great louer, such as are in 

 England in ancient houses. There is also the chappell 

 of the sepulchre, and in the mids thereof is a canopie 

 as it were of a bed, with a great sort of Estridge 

 egges hanging at it, with tassels of silke and lampes. 



Behinde the sepulchre is a litle chappell for the 

 Chaldeans and Syrians. 



Upon the right hand comming into the church is 

 the tombe of Baldwine king of France, and of his 

 Sonne : and in the same place the tombe of Mel- 

 chisedech. 



There is a chappell also in the same church erected ^- Hekns 

 to S. Helen, through which we go up to the place ^^"^Z^^^- 

 where Christ was crucified : the stayres are fiftie steps 

 high, there are two altars in it : before the high altar 

 is the place where the crosse stood, the hole whereof 

 is trimmed about with silver, and the depth of it is 

 halfe a mans arme deepe : the rent also of the moun- 

 taine is there to be scene in the crevis, wherein a man 

 may put his arme. 



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