pPaai***) o^ tfte (l>racifi|:ion. 



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and there the Jewes scorned Him, and maden Him a croune 

 of the braunches of Albespyne, that is White Thorn, that grew 

 in the same gardyn, and setten it on His heved, so faste and 

 so sore, that the blood ran doun be many places of His visage, 

 and of His necke, and of His schuldres. And therefore hathe the 

 White Thorn many vertues ; for he that berethe a braunche on 

 him thereoffe, no thondre, ne no maner of tempest may dere him ; 

 ne in the hows that it is inne may non evylle gost entre ne come 

 unto the place that it is inne. And in that same gardyn Seynt Petre 

 denyed oure Lord thryes. Aftreward was oure Lord lad forthe 

 before the bischoppes and the maystres of the lawe, in to another 

 gardyn of Anne ; and there also He was examyned, repreved, and 

 scorned, and crouned eft with a White Thorn, that men clepethe 

 Barbarynes, that grew in that gardyn ; and that hathe also manye 

 vertues. And afterward He was lad into a gardyn of Cayphas, 

 and there He was crouned with Eglentier, And aftre He was lad in 

 to the chambre of Pylate, and there He was examynd and crouned. 

 And the Jewes setten Hym in a chayere and cladde Hym in a 

 mantelle ; and there made thei the croune of Jonkes of the see ; 

 and there thei kneled to Hym, and skorned Hym, seyenge : ' Heyl, 

 King of the Jewes ! ' " 



l&tlits of tf)e STnirifilion. From MaundeviU't Travels. 



The illustration represents the Crown of Thorns, worn by our 

 Saviour, his coat without seams, called tunica inconsutilis'; the 



