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want of Air. Stepping down three fteps from the Chappel of Apparition 
into the Church, before the door of the fatd Chappel you find two round 
Marble-ftones fet in the Pavement, one of which marks the place where our 
Lord was when he appeared to Mary Magdalen^ and is called t\\t Stone of Noh 'Jj.^^. 
me tangere, ( Touch me not, ) and over it there is a large Silver Lamp kept ^^^^^ '"^ 
burning \ the otherjhews the place where Mary was, who would have advan- 
ced and embraced our Lord, but our Saviour thrufcing her back, faid to her. 
Touch me not-, and there are two Silver Lamps over this Stone. Then on the , 
lèft hand, you find a little Chappel taken out of the Wall, dedicated to the 
honour of St. Mary Magdalen , becaufe that clofe by that place our Lord The Cbappel 
appeared to her in thelikenefs of the Gardener, aslhavejuft now faid ^ but ?>t.-Mary 
feeing there 'is no Myftery in that Chappel, it is left without any Lamp, nay 
v/ithout any Crofs too; It belongs to the Isleftorians or Jacobttesj and is railed 
in. After that, you find a little Court, where the NecelTary Places are j then 
the Chappel of our Lord's Prifon, which is a very little and dark place, ' where '^^^ Chappel 
(they fay) our Saviour was put, while they were digging a hole in Mount p^p^^J' ^"'^'^'^ 
Calvary to plant his Crofs in -, you muft go down to it by three fteps. The 
Vault of this Chappel is fupported by two Pillars, and it belongs to the Greeks, 
who keep a burning Lamp there. Near to that Chappel there is an Altar, 
fupported by two Stone-Pillars, and before it there arc two holes in the Pave- 
ment, vfhere (they fay) our Saviour's Feet were put, as in'the Stocks : The 
Oriental Chriitians pafs willingly betwixt the Wall and the Pillars, though 
the paflage be very narow, becaufe all but Baftards can go through that way, 
and ] have feen big-bellied Women pafs through it 'with much pain, and the 
danger of dcltroying their Fœtus -, there are two Lamps before this Altar. After 
that, you fee another obi'cure Chappel, wherein (they fay) the Infcription on The Place of 
the Crofs of our Lord was long kept, and is now at Rome, in the Church of ^^^J^P'j^^'g'" 
Holy Cr-ofs^ Jn Atrio Sellertano : This Chappel belongs to the Ahyffms, Then ]y ^rofs ^' 
you come to the Chappel of the Parting of the Garments, behind the middle the Chappel 
part of ine Quire, which is fo called, becaufe it is the place where the Soldiers of the Parc- 
cafl Lots for our Saviour's Garments, and divided them among them : This '"S of the 
Chappel belongs to the Armenians. A little farther, there is a Door, by which ^'''^ents. 
you enter upon a very large pair of Stairs of thirty Stone-fteps, upon which 
there are four Lamps, and five at the foot of the Stairs, where you find the 
Chappel of St. Helen \ and leaving it to the left hand, after you have defcended 
eleven fteps more, cut out in the Rock of Mount Calvary, you come to the 
Chappel of the Invention of the Crofs : This is but a little place cut out of the The Chappel 
Rock, and there it was that the Crofs of cur Lord, the Nails, Crown of or the inven- 
Thorns, Infcription on the Crofs, and the Head of the Lance were found : t'on of the 
This placewas heretofore a Ditch at the foot of Mount C^/T^r)', called by the ^ 
Prophet Jeremiah^The Valley of the dead bodies., Jer.3 1 .whereinto thofe who were The valley of 
put to Death, with the Inftruments of their Execution, wcrecaft: It belongs the DeadBo- 
to the Latins and Greeks, for there are tw^o Altars in it, of which that of the ^l^es. . 
Crucifix on the left hand (which is the very place where the Crofs of our Lord 
was foiand j) belongs to the Latin Monks, and there are twelve Lamps before it ^ 
the other on the right hand belongs to the Greeks, and at it there are thirteen 
Lamps. In this place one may eafily fee the Cleft of the Rock that clove afunder The Cleft of 
when our Lord yielded up theGhoft. Being come up again the eleven Steps t'l^ Rock at 
that are cut in the RoclUJyou feathe Chappel of St. Helen, which is fpacious ; P^ffion. 
it hath a Dome, fupported by four great Pillars of white Marble, which (the of st.'^Xr' 
ChriftiansoftheCouncrey fay) weep for the Death ofourZ-o/"^,becaufe the damp- * 
nefs of the place keeps them always moift : There are two Altars in that Chappel, 
one of which is very large,arid all of Marble,having eighten Lamps before it ; the 
other is to the left hand,and hath eight Lamps before it. In thatChappel alfo on 
the right hand,near the -great Altar, there is a Marble-Chair, of an Antick Form, 
and Engrav'd, wherein that Holy Emprefs fate, while they fearched for the 
Crofs of our Lord bflovv? : That Chappel belongs to tht Armenians. Having 
come up again the thirty Steps, you turn to the left, and find the Chappel of The chappçl 
Exprobration, fhuc in with a wooden Lettice ; in this Chappel there is an Altar of E>''probra- 
fupported by two Pillars, and under it the faid Pillar of Exprobration, about 
two foot high ; it is of greyilh Marble, and may be feen through an Iron- 
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