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Convent ; on which account there yearly pafTes 
Jhrough his hands, at lead half a million of livres. 
thefe are the revenues of the Sepulchre and Con- 
of which little remains at the year’s end. 
the revenues arife from alms, the greatefl part 
r °m Spain and Portugal ; from thofe people who 
| )er mit the Barbarians to ruin their trade, and 
P under their country, without fupplying one piafter 
their chaftifement; but fend yearly a confider- 
, p fum to Jerufalem, to be devoured by Turks, 
eir inveterate enemies, and by Monks, who are 
c 'efs inhabitants in Europe, and unnecclfary at 
“f r ufalem, where they are of no fort of advantage to 
, PriiLanity, unlefs we can believe that their devout 
"j m g of ftones has fome hidden virtue. France 
off 65 a A thinking nation by degrees leaves 
all abfurd cuftoms ; but the French, fince the 
^ ^ of Louis the Saint, have fomething elfe to 
hefides making pilgrimages to Jerufalem. The 
/ e *ents to the holy Sepulchre from Germany arc 
« t ri ?g* A German Monk told me, that the Canon, 
*nmum quae neceffaria, deinde quas opus funt,” 
die u nted WOrks ° f P ‘ ety in that C0Umi 7 - Alms from 
q Ui 1 olanders, though fuch zealous Catholics, are 
f r ‘ te out of the queftion, and few Pilgrims come 
^ that country. 
Hi a p r he 18th, when I took leave of the Arme- 
h; s n j utriarch, he ordered me to be conducted into 
f ee • Urctl of St. James, which is in his Convent, to 
he;, Us ornaments. They are well worth feeing, 
dia^’ pa ^ aI1 doubt, the richeft and moft valuable 
4*7 church in the Eaft can boaft of, and per- 
tq the ornaments of the largeft and 
fill; f Ghriftian churches in Europe. They con- 
St a fp fall® Bilhops Mitres, Surplices, Chalices, 
’ Vlteniqria, &c. Some of pure gold, the 
others 
