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, The Latins^ of whom there are always ten or twelve 
at Church, with a Prefident over them, make every 
Day a folemn Proceffion, with Tapers and Cruci- 
fixes, to the feveral Sanctuaries, and fing at every 
one a Hymn relating to the SubjeCl: of the Place. 
Their Ceremony begins on Good-Friday Night, which 
is called by them the Nox Fenehrofa \ and as foon as 
it grew dusk, all the Friars and Pilgrims met in the 
Chapel of the Apparition, (which is on the North-fide 
of the Holy Gravey to go in Proceffion round the 
Church. 
After a Sermon, at which all the Candles were put 
out to make a lively Image of the dark Night, every 
one had a lighted Taper put into his Hand i and amongil; 
the other Crucifixes, there was one very large, which 
bore an Image of our Lord, as big as the Life, faftned 
to it with great Nails, crown’d with Thorns, befmear’d 
■with Blood, and lively reprefented our Lord’s Body as 
it hung upon the Crofs. This Figure was carried in 
the Head of the Proceffion, after which all the Compa- 
ny followed to all the feveral SanCtuaries of the Church, 
finging at every one a Hymn. 
The firft Place was that of the Pillar of Flagellation, 
kept in a little Cell juft by the Chapel of Apparition ; 
there they fung their Hymn, and a Friar preach’d in 
Spanijh about the Scourging of our Lord. From hence 
they proceeded to the Prifon of Chrift, where they 
had alfo a Hymn and a Sermon. From the Prifon 
they went to the Altar of the Divifion of Chrift’s Gar- 
ments, where they only fung a Hymn ; and from thence 
to the Chapel of Derifion, where they had a Hymn 
and a fourth Sermon. From this Place they went up 
to Calvary^ leaving their Shoes at the Foot of the Stairs. 
Here are two Altars, one where he was nail’d to the 
Crofs, at which they laid down the great Crucifix, and 
atfted the Nailing of Chrift to, the Crofs. The other 
where his Crofs was eredled, bearing the Image of our 
Lord’s Body. At this Altar there is a tiole in the na- 
tural Rock, in which the Foot of our Lord’s Crofs 
ftood ; and here they fet up their Crofs, with the bloody 
crucified Image upon it, and then fung a Hymn, and 
preach’d a very affedling Paflion Sermon. 
About a Yard and half from the Hole where the 
Foot of the Crofs was fix’d, is feen that Cleft in the 
Rock which was made by the Earthquake at Chrift’s 
Death, when the Rocks were rent^ xxvii. 51. It 
appears to be a natural Breach, for the Sides of it an- 
fwer each other like two Tallies, and it runs in fuch in- 
tricate Windings as could not be counterfeited by Art. 
After the Ceremony of the Paffion is over, two Friars 
perfonating Jofeph of Arimathea and Nicodemus^ come 
with a grave and folemn Air, and take down the feigned 
Body from the Crofs. The Limbs of the Image were 
foft and flexible, and it was furprizing to fee the two 
Mourners bend down the Arms which were before ex- 
tended, and lay them upon the Trunk, as is ufually done 
in Corpfes. The Body being taken down was receiv’d 
in a large Winding-fheet, and carried from Mount Cal- 
vary to the Stone of Uncftion, i. e. the Place where our 
Lord’s Body vvas anointed, John xix. 39. And here 
while they caft over it fweet Powders and Spices, they 
fun» a proper Hymn, and a Friar preach’d a Funeral 
Sermon in Arabick. After this they carried the feigned 
Corpfe and laid it in the Sepulchre, ffiutting up the Door 
till Eajier Morning. 
On the 27th : This Morning the Pilgrims had Lei- 
fure to mark their Arms with the ufual Enfigns of Je- 
rufalem y and in the Afternoon, the Congregation wag 
aflembled in the Area before the Holy Grave, where 
the Friars fung over the Lamentation of Jeremy^ which 
with the ufual Proceffion to the holy Places was all the 
Bufinefs of this Day. 
16. On the 28th, being Eajier Morning, the Sepulchre 
was again fet open very early, and Mafs was celebra- 
ted juft before it, being the higheft Place in this Church, 
where the Father Guardian in his Robes gave the Hoft 
to all that were dilpos’d to receive it, not refufing Chil- 
dren of feven or eight Years old ; Which Office being 
ended, we went out of the Sepulchre, return’d to the 
Convent, and din’d with the Friars. After Dinner we 
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went to vifit fome of the remarkable Places without 
the Walls ; we began with thofe on the North-fide 
And firft, we were conduced to a large Grot, a little 
without Damafctts-^zte, which is faid to have been the 
Refidence of J eremiah : And here they fhew’d us the 
Prophet’s Bed, being a Shelve on the Rock about 
eight Foot from the Ground, and near it is the Place 
where they fay he wrote his Lamentations. This Place 
is now a College of Dervifes, and is much honour’d by 
Furks and Jews. ^ 
The next Place we came to, was thofe famous Grots 
called the Sepulchres of Kings, for what Reafon I know 
nor, unlefs they were the Sepulchres of the Sons of 
vid, mentioned Chron. xxxii. 33. but it appears by the 
Labour and Expence to have been the Work of Kino-s. 
At the Eaft-end you enter through a Rock into an 
open Court, about forty Paces fquare, cut down into the 
Rock. On the South-fide is a Portico nine Paces lono-, 
and four broad, cut out of the natural Rock, and at the 
End of it you defeend into the Sepulchres, within which 
IS a fair Room about feven or eight Yards fquare, cut 
out of the natural Rock fo exadlly fquare, that Nothino- 
could be built more regular ; and fo firm, that it may 
be called a Chamber hewn out of one Piece of Marble. 
From this Room you pafs into fix more, one within 
another, all of the fame Fabrick with the firft. In every 
one of thefe Rooms, befides the firft, were Coffins of 
Stone placed in Niches on the Sides of the Chamber, 
and in each Room there was a fmall Channel cut in the 
Floor, to drain the Drops that conftantly fall into it. 
But the moft furprizing thing that belongs to thefe Rooms 
was their Doors, of which there is only one remains 
hanging to puzzle the Beholders. It confifted of a 
Plank of Stone about fix Inches thick, of the Size of 
an ordinary Door ; it was carved fo as to refemble a 
Piece of Wainfeot, but the Stone was vifibly of the 
fame Kind with the whole Rock, and turned upon two 
Hinges like Axels, which were of the fame Scone with 
the Door, and contained in two Holes of the Rock, 
one at the Top, the other at the Bottom. 
It feem’d to be a Riddle to Pilgrims, whether thefe 
Doors were here cut out of the Rock, or brought hi- 
ther ; for refolving of which, I obferved that the Door 
left hanging did not touch its Lintel by at leaft two 
Inches, and fo might eafily be lifted up and unhinged, 
which intimates how this Work was done. From thefe 
Sepulchres we return’d towards the City, and juft by 
Herod’s, Gate were fhown a Grotto full of Mire, which 
pafTes for Jeremiah’s, Dungeon, out of which he was 
difmiflfed by Ebed Melech, Jer. xxxviii. 
17* The 29th. This Day, htin^ Eajier Monday, the 
Molblem, or Governor of the City, fet out with fome 
Bands of Soldiers to convey the Pilgrims to Jordan, and 
to fecure them from the Infolence of the Arabs in thofe 
Parts. The Fee to the Mofolem, upon this Occafion, 
is twelve Dollars for each Frank Pilgrim, and fix for 
Ecclefiafticks, which every one muft pay, whether they 
go the Journey or ftay in the City. We went out at Sr. 
Stephen’s Gate, being in all, of every Nation and Sex, 
about 2000 Pilgrims 5 and having crofs’d the Valley of, 
Jehofg.phat, and Part of Mount Olivet, we came in half 
an Hour to Bethany. At the Entrance into it there is 
an old Ruin called Lazarus’s Cajile, fuppofed to be his. 
Manfion-houfe, and not far from it is the Sepulchre out 
of which he was raifed by Chrift, which is held in great 
Veneration by the Furks, who ufe it for an Oratory, 
and demand of all Chriftians a Caphar for their Ad- 
miffiion into it. 
A little further you pafs by what they call Mary Mag- 
dalen’s Habitation, and then defeending a Hill, you. 
come to the Fountain of the Apoftles, where they were 
wont to refrelh themfelves in their Travels between Je- 
rufalem and Jericho. After fome Hours Travel in a 
barren Country, you come to the mountainous Defarc 
into which our Saviour was led by the Spirit to be 
tempted of the Devil y and from the Top of thefe Hills 
v/e had a Profpedf of the Mountains of Arabia, the Dead 
Sea, and the Plain of Jericho, into which we defeended, 
and turning up on the Left-hand, we came to the Foot 
of the Ffyarantania, which they fay is the Mountain into 
which 
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