Part L 
Travels into the L e v a n t. 
Chappel is the place where the Bleffed Virgin took our Lord in her arms, when 
he was let down from the Crofs ; and it is therefore called the Chappel of 
our Lady of Pity. As you go out of that Chappel, you fee on the left hand, 
before the Church-Door along the Wall, four fair Sepulchres of white Marble, 
where the Child reh of BMdowin are interred, on one of which is this Epitaph The Tombs; 
upon well cut Marble, Septimus in tumulopuer ifio Rex tHmuUtus efi Baldewims, the Chil- 
regnm de [anguine natns^ cfuem tulit e mitndo fors prima conditionis-, & paradiftaca loca ^^^"^^^^ 
fojfideat regioms • but one hath much a do to read the latter part of it, becaufe 
it pleafed the Greeks heretofore to fpoil thefe Tombs, that they might abolilh 
the memory of the Weftern Kings, but at prefent they are not fuffered to do 
it. Near to that, is the Stone of Undion, upon which Jofefhoï Aramathea The stone of 
anointed the Body of our Lord, after it was taken down from the Gtofs ; it is Unaion. 
almoft feven foot long, and two foot broad, and is now covered over with 
greyifh Marble, becaufe the Pilgrims broke always bits off of it j it is adorned 
all round with a chequered border of little white and red Marble-Stones , and 
that no body fhould tread upon it (for it is but about a foot above ground) it 
is enclofed within an Iron-Grate, the ends of which are leaded into the Pave- 
ment of the Church j and there are two Copper-Candlefticks, one at each end, 
leaded in in the fame manner, in which the Latin Monks keep two Wax-Tapers 
burning: There are always eight Lamps burning ovâ-^that Stone, which are 
entertained by all the eight Nations that are in the Holy Sepulchre, to vv'ir, 
the Latins y Greeks.^ yihyffries^ Cophtes, Armenians^ Nefiorians and Jacobites ^ 
but the Stone belongs to the Latins. After that, continuing to go round the 
Church, you come to a pair of Stairs, before which there is a round white 
Marble-Stone even with the Pavement, and fet in it -, they fay that the BlelTed 
Virgin was in that very place, when the Body of our Lord was anointed. 
When you have afcended that Stair- cafe of feven and thirty Steps, you enter 
into the Church of the Armenians^ wherein you find nine and fifty Lamps, and 
two Candiefticks of fixteen branches a piece; and in the Quire there are 
feventy Lamps , and two Candlefticks , of fix branches a piece : At the 
iîde of the Quire, there is alfo a Chappel, and three and forty Lamps, with 
a Candleftick of eight branches within it. Being come down from thence, 
you find the Chappel of the Abyjfmes-, then that of the Syrians or Jacobites, 
which hath its entry at the back of the Holy Sepulchre, v^^herein are one and 
thirty Lamps, and at the end of it there is a Grott, in which are the two 
Sepulchres of Nicodemas and Jofeph of Arimathea, cut in the depth of the Rock, The Sepuî. 
with a Lamp before each of them: This good Man , Jofeph of Arimathea^'^J^^^^^^ ^^''o^ 
having laid our Lord's Body in the Sepulchre which he had prepared for rfJ/'^^'f^^.^'J''' 
himfelf, caufed another to be made for him, accounting himfelf unworthy to t/l4.*^ '^^^^ 
be laid where the Body of our Saviour had Iain. Then you find a Door, by 
which afcending fome fteps, you go to the Lodgings of the Gref^/, and from 
thence to the Chappel of the Apparition, and fo you have made the whole 
circumference of the Church. This Church formerly belonged wholly to the 
Latins^ but the other Chriftians have for Money obtained their ftiares in it ; 
it is pleafant to fee this Church on High Feftival Days, for then it fhines with 
an infinite number of Lamps, fome red , fome green, becaufe of the water 
within them, to which they give what colour they pleafc, and that efpecially 
when the Greeks and other Chriftians who follow the old Calendar, have Eafter 
on the fame day with us, as it happened this year : But there is a great deal 
of trouble with it alfo, for there are near four thoufand Chriftians, who come 
fronj all Parts, and all for a Maidin a piece get into St. Sepulchres ; fo that then 
one can hardly perform his devotions well, not only becaufe of the noife, but 
alfo becaufe there is always a great croud of people at the Holy Places i for 
though every Nation have their own diftind, yet all have liberty to pay their 
devotions at what place they pleafe. There you'ii fee fome, both Men and 
Women, rowl upon the ground at the Holy Places, without any refped to mo- 
defcy : Others bring with them whole Pieces of Cloth, which they meafure 
upon the Holy Sepulchre and Stone of Undion, and cut them in pieces accor- 
ding to the length of thefe S^nduaries, which ferve them for Shrouds to be 
buried in, and all this in pure devotion. And if for more convenience you take 
the night-time to perform your devotions in, or the dawning of the morning, 
you 
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