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Laz^ariis was laid upon this Table. Not far from thence, is the Itonc on which 
our Saviour coming from Jencho^ fat down and bewailed the Death of Lazarus^ TheCaf i 
yy\^ç^ St. Martha told him, Lordifthoahadfi bsenho-Cf my Brother had not Died, j^^fy yvf',,,j*j! 
Within a few paces of that flone flood the Caflle oî Alvy Magdalen^ çallçd len. 
Magdalon-^ and ciofe by it is theplace-where the houfe of Martha flood; after that The Hotife of 
we came to the place of the Fig-Tree,which our Saviour Carfed,becaure it bore 
no Fruitjwhereupon itinflantly withered. Then we palfed through Bethfhage, 
where we faw the place where the Afs was when our Saviour fent for it, to make 
his entry into Jemfalem on Palm-Smday riding on the Ais. Next we went 
to the Grott whereSt.PfW wept bitterly for his Sin, after that theCock . ^ 
hadCrow'd; from thence we came to the place where the Jews would lia^e ^Jp^ J,,^^ 
taken the Body of the Virgin from the Apoftles, as they were carrying it to " ' 
the Sepulchre, for which they were immediately punifhed. Then we went to 
Mount Sion, about five or fix hundred paces diflant from the City, which is Mount i-ww. 
the place vvhere our Lord celebrated his Holy Supper with his Apoftles, wafted The p'^œ of 
their Feet,' and inflituted th^ moil Augufl Sacrament; the eighth day after 3^,*; J^^''"'^" 
his Refurredion, he entered into it when the Doors were lliut, and (aid to his 
Difciples Paxvohisy Peace be unto you ; the Holy Ghofl alfo defcended there 
upon the Virgin and the Apoftles, on the day of Pentecofi. In this place are the Sepulchre 
the Sepulchres of Da-Vid and Salomon. About an hundred years fince, that j^*^"^'''^ ^'■'^'^^ 
Mountain was vdthin the Town, poffeifed by the Religious of the Order of'^'^'"™"* 
St,Francis.y but after that Sultan So/y^î^îw rebuilt the Walls of Jernfalcm., The Mac 
was excluded, and the Friers difpolfeffed of it. The Turks have built a Mofque „ here the 
there, into which the Chriftians are not fuffered to enter ; ciofe by, we faw the virgin died, 
place where the holy Virgin died,at prefent there being no building there: a little 
lower is the Church-yard of the Roman Catholkks : On the left hand towards 
the City, is the place where St. John the Evangelifl many times faid Holy Mafs : 
About an hundred and fifty paces from that Mount, as you go towards the City, 
there is a Church held by the Armenians, in the fame place where the Houfe of 
Caiaphas flood ^ we went into it, and faw upon the Altar, the Stone which (hut The stone 
the door of our Saviours Monument, which is near feven foot long, three foot ^^'^ fhut the 
broad, and afoot thick. On the right hand is the Prifon, into which our ^^^^^^"^^'^ 
Lord was put, whil'ft C^i/rp/j-^j (after he had examined him) confulted with the ""^ 
reft what ftiould be done with him. As you go out of the Church, on the left 
hand in a low Court, there is an Orange-Tree, which is the place where 
St. Peter v/armed himfelf, when he three times denied his Mafter ^ feven or 
eight fleps from thence is the place of the Pillar where the Cock 
Crew: After that, we entred the City by the Gate oï Sion, and went to fee 
the Houfe of the High VikH Amas, which now is an Armenian Church. The Houfe 
In the Court before the Church there is an 01ive-Tree,which they affirm for a ?f .^'1- ^^'S'^ 
certain to be the fame to which our Lord was Bound, till he received the Sen- 
tenceof the High Priefl:. Going from thence, we went to another very fair 
Church, called St. James, flill held by the Armenians, which was built by 
St. Helen ; in this Church there is a little Chappel on the left hand as you en- 
ter, which is the place where Sc. J.zwfi the Minor, firfl Patriarch of Jw//^/fw T'le place 
was Beheaded, by command of Herod Agnppa. This Church has no light but by VZs^^^l'sVe. 
the opening in the Dome above, where there is an Iron-Grate very well wrought: héaded. 
Over againfl this Church is the Houfe of St. Thomas the Apoflle, into which The Houfe of 
the Turks dare not enter, becaufe (they fay) that in times paft, fuch as entered "^t- Thmas. 
it, died there. Afterwards we entered into the Houfe of St. Mark^, ^^'^^'^Jt'^Mark^'^^^ 
there is a Church held by the Syrians; it is the firft that was built by St. Helen ' ' 
in Jeriifalem ; when Herod c^^ St. Peter into Prifon, the other Jpoftles with the 
Difciples were in that Houfe,praying for his deliverance ; near to that we faw 
the Iron-Gate through which the Angel brought St. Peter, when he delivered iron-Gate, 
him out of the Prifon, from whence St. Peter went to the Houfe of St. Mark, 
and found the other Apoftles there. VVe then vifited in order the Houfe of Zebe- 
dee,the Father of St. James the Major,and St.Johntht Evangclift,which is alfo the The Houfe of 
place of their Nativity : at prefent there is a Church there held by the Greeks. Zf/'t-.i-"?. 
Then we came into the Court or open place of the Church of the holy Sepulchre, 
and on the right hand (ivhere Mount Calvary is) we entered a little Door, and 
afcending nine and thirty fteps of a winding ftair-cafe, we faw two Churches 
held 
