ALthough it passe as a generall prouerbe , that trauailers may tel leasings by authoritie : yet I being no way daunted by that bugbeare-thunderbolt , but confidently standing on the iustice of my cause , my kinde commendations to all you my deare friendes first remembred , thus from Ierusalem I beginne to salute you . You shal vnderstand , that since my departure from the Grand Cayro towards the Holy land , I wrot you a letter from Ramoth Gilead , wherein I certified you of all my proceedings from Grand Cayro , euen to that very place . I sent it with seauen other Letters beside to Damasco in a Carauan , and thence to be conueyed to Constantinople : but doubting least the said packet be not as yet come to your hands , I thought it good to write againe vnto you , concerning all the aforesaide proceedings , as also the rest of my voyage to Ierusalem , with my imprisonment and troubles in the citie , as also what memorable antiquities I sawe there and elsewhere , vntill my returne backe to Alexandria , which was the 11. of Aprill 1601. First then let me tell you , that I departed not from the Grand Cayro till the 9. of March : vpon which day I came to the place , where ( it is saide ) the Uirgine Mary did stay with our Sauiour Christ . So farre was I accompanied with Antonie Thorpe , and some others that came vp to the Grand Cayro with mee : but here they left mee , departing back to the citie , and I with my fellow trauailer Master Iohn Burrell , both of vs being in our Pilgrimes habit , came the night to a towne called Canko , where we were glad to take vp our lodging in a yarde , hauing no other bedding then the bare ground . The next day we departed thence , and came to a towne in the Land of Gozan , where we met with a companie of Turkes , Iewes , and Christians , and some seauen hundred and fiftie Camelles , all which were bound for Damasco ouer the deserts : yet was there amongst them two and twentie Greekes and Armenians , whose purposed trauaile lay to Ierusalem , which made vs the gladder of their companie . At this towne , being named Philbits , we stayed two daies and one night : in which time I went into a house , where I sawe ( in my iudgement ) a very strange secret of hatching Chickins , by artificiall heat or warmthe : the like I had seene before at the Grand Cayro , but not in such extraordinary numbers or multitudes as heere , the manner whereof ( for your better satisfaction ) was as followeth .

The country people inhabiting about this towne , by foure or fiue miles distance euery waie , doe bring their Egges in apt cartage for the purpose , vpon Asses or Camelles to this place , where there is an Ouen or Furnace purposely kept temperatly warme , and the Furner or Master thereof ( or howsoeuer it shall please you to tearme him ) standeth ready at a little doore , receiuing the Egges of euery one , by tale : except when the number ariseth so high , as to tenne Camelles lading or more , then he filleth a measure by tale , & after that order measures all the rest . And let me tell you this for a trueth , that I sawe there receiued by the Furner , Cooke , or Baker , in one day , what by tale & what by measure , to the number of thirtie fiue or fortie thousand Egges : and they tolde me , that , for three daies space together , hee doth nothing but receiue in still , and at twelue daies they come againe to fetch Chickins , sometimes at tenne daies , and sometimes ( but not very often ) at seauen daies , according as the weather falleth out . Perhaps some two hundred persons are owners of one Raungefull , some hauing two thousand , some one , or more or lesse , as the quantities amount too : but the Furner noateth the names and portions of euery bringer , and if he hap to haue an hundred and fiftie thousand , or two hundred thousand at one heate ( as many times it chaunceth that he hath ) yet doth he mingle them altogether , as not respecting to whom they seuerally belong . Then doth he lay them one by one vpon his Raunge , so neere as they can lye and touch each other , hauing first made a bed for them of Camelles dunge burnt : and the place , whereon the ashes doth rest , is of a very thinne matter made of earth , but mixed with the Camels dung in the making , and some Pigeons dung is also amongst it : yet herein consisteth not the secreat onely , for there is made a concaue or hollow place about three foote breadth vnder it , whereon is likewise spred an other layer of Camels dung , and vnder that is the place where the fire is made . Yet can I not rightly call it fire , because it appeareth too be nothing but embers : for I could discerne it but as qualified ashes , yeelding a temperate heate to the next concaue , and the heate being resisted by the layer of dung next it , ( which dung being greene , and layd vpon pieces of withered trees , or rather boughes of old dead trees ) deliuereth foorth an extraordinarie vapour , and that vapour entreth the hollow concaue next vnder the Egges , where in time it pearceth the before named mixed earth , which toucheth the ashes whereon the Egges are laid , and so serueth as a necessarie receptacle for al the heate comming from vnderneath . This artificiall heate gliding through the embers whereon the Egges lie , doth by degrees warme thorowe the shelles , and so infuseth life by the same proportions of heate : thus in seuen , eight , nine , ten , or sometimes twelue daies , life continueth by this artificiall meanes . Now when the Furner perceiueth life to appeare , and that the shelles begin to breake , then he beginneth to gather them : but of an hundred thousand , he hardly gathereth threescore thousand , sometime but fiftie thousand , and sometime ( when the day is ouercast ) not twentie thousand : and if there chaunce any lightning , thunder or raine , then of a thousand he gathers not one , for they doo then all miscarie & die . And this is to be remembred withall , that be the weather neuer so fayre , the aire perfect cleare , and euery thing as themselues can desire , let the Chickens be hatched in the best manner that may be : yet haue they either a clawe too much or too little : for sometimes they haue fiue clawes , sometimes sixe , some but two before , and one behind , and seldome very fewe or any in their right shape . Afterward , when the people come to receiue , that before had brought in , the Furner giues to euery one ratably , according as the Furnace yeelded , reseruing to himselfe the tenth for his labour . Thus haue you the secret of hatching Chickens by heate artificiall , at the towne of Philbits in the land of Gozan , which I thinke were in vaine to be practised in England , because the ayre there is hardly ten daies together clarified : neither is there any Camels dunge , though they haue dunge of other beasts euery way as hote : therefore when the Sunne is in Cancer , Leo , or Virgo , you may ( if you please ) trie what can be done . Pexhaps some will thinke this to be a lie or fable , but to such I answere , I can vrge their credenceno furder then my faith and truth may perswade them : and if thereon they will not beleeue me , let them take paines to make their owne eies a witnesse , and when they haue paid as dearely as I haue doone , ( for the sight of this and other things cost me an hundred Markes in fiftie daies ) their iudgement will be better confirmed .

But now to my iourney toward the desert of Arabia , which I must passe before I can come to the Holy land . The 13. of Marche we departed from the towne of Philbits , trauailing all night in companie with the Carauan of Damasco , and the 14. at nine of the clocke , we pitched our tents at Boharo in the land of Gozan . From thence wee departed that night , and the 15. at night we pitched at Salhia , which is to the Eastward of the land of Gozan , and stands on the borders of the Arabian deserts . Here we staied two daies for feare of the wild Arabes , and departed thence the 17. we passed that night ouer a great bridge , vnder which the salt water standeth . This water comes out of the Sea from the partes of Damieta , and by mens hands was cut out of that place , some hundred and fiftie miles into the maine land , by Ptolomeus king of Egypt , who purposed to bring the Red-sea , and the Mediterranean all into one : but when he foresaw , that if he had gone through with this worke , all his countrie had bin quite drowned , he gaue it ouer , & builded a bridge ouer for passage . This place parteth Arabia and Egypt , and no sooner had we past this bridge , but we were set vpon by the wild Arabes : and notwithstanding our great companie ( for we were more then a thousand persons ) a Camell laden with Calicoes was taken from vs , foure of our men hurt , and one of them mortally wounded : so away ran the Arabes with the preye , we being vnable to helpe it , because it was night .

The 18. in the morning , we pitched by a well of brackish water : but I forgot to tell you , that my fellow Pilgrime M. Iohn Burrell escaped very narrowly in the last nights bickering . Here we rested our selues till three of the clocke in the afternoone , call●d Lasara ; for the Arabians and Egyptians diuide the day but into foure partes : then we departed , and pitched the next morning at a Castell in the deserts called Catga . This is one of the three castels which the Turkes kept in the deserts , to defend altrauailers from the wild Arabes : wherefore here we pay a certaine tare , vz. 60. pieces of siluer of two pence a piece value , for each man or boy , and 76. pieces for a Camell laden , and 14. for a Mule . Hauing paid this imposition , we departed , and pitched againe the 19. at another brackish well , from whence setting onward , we pitched the 20. of March at the second Castell called Arris , kept also by the Turkes in the said deserts , where our taxe was but 20. pieces of siluer for each passenger , and 30. for a Camell . From thence we were guided by many Soldiors to the third Castell called Raphaell , making one long iourney of 24. houres together . Here it is said that the Kings of Egypt and Iudea fought many great battailes : which to me seemed very vnlikely , because there is nothing to releeue an armie withall , except sand and salt water . There wee paid but ten pieces each passenger , and 20. for a beast : so departing thence , the 22. in the morning , wee pitched at Gaza in Palestine , a goodly fruitfull countrey , and here we were quitted of all the deserts . In this towne I sawe the place , where ( as they told vs ) Sampson puld downe the two Pillers , and slewe the Philistines : and surely it appeares to be the same towne , by reason of the scituation of the countrey : here we paied 22. pieces for each beast , and 10. each passenger .

Hence we departed the 22. of March , and pitched at a place called in Arabian , Canuie , but by the Christians termed Bersheba , being vpon the borders of Iudea : where we paid but 2. pieces of siluer each one , and 4. for a beast . Departing hence , the 23. in the morning , we pitched our Tents vpon a Greene , close vnder the walles of Ramoth in Gilead : there I stayed all that day , and wrote eight Letters for England by the forenamed Carauan , which went for Damasco , to be conueyed to Constantinople , and so for England .

The next day being the 24. in the morning , I with the other Christians set towards Ierusalem , and the great Carauan went their way for Damasco : but wee pitched short that night at a place called in Arabian Cudeche laneb , being 16. miles from Hebron , where the Sepulchre of our forefather Abraham is , and fiue little miles from Ierusalem . From thence we departed in the morning , being our Lady day in Lent , and at 9. of the clocke before noone , I sawe the cittie of Ierusalem : when kneeling downe , and saying the Lords prayer , I gaue God most hartie thankes for conducting mee thither , to behold so holy a place with mine eies , wherof I had read so often before . Comming within a furlong of the gates , I with my companion M. Iohn Burrell , went singing and praising God , till we came to the west gate of the Cittie , and there we staied , because it is not lawfull for a Christian to enter vnadmitted . My companion aduised me to say I was a Greeke , onely to auoid going to Masse : but I not hauing the Greeke tongue , refused so to doo , telling him euen at the gates entraunce , that I would neither denie my Countrie nor Religion : whereupon being demaunded who wee were , M. Burrell ( answering in the Greeke tongue ) told them that he was a Greeke , and I an Englishman . This gaue him admittance to the Greeke Patriarke , but I was seazed on and cast in prison , before I had staied a ful houre at the gate : for the Turkes flatly denied , that they had euer heard either of my Queene or Countrey , or that she paied them any tribute . The Peter Guardian , who is there defender of all Christian Pilgrimes ( and the principall procurer of mine imprisonment , because I did not offer my selfe vnder his protection , but confidently stood to be rather protected vnder the Turke than the Pope ) made the Turke so much mine enemie , that I was reputed to be a spie , and so ( by no meanes ) could I get release from the dungeon .

Now giue me fauour to tell you , how it pleased hope ( that very day ) to deliuer mee , and graunt my passe as a Protestant , without yeelding to any other ceremonie , then cariage of a waxe candle only , farre beyond mine owne best hope or expectation . Here let me remember you , how I was stayed at Ramoth in Gilead , where I wrote the eight Letters for England by the Carauan of Damasco : hauing so good leysure , I went to a Fountaine to washe my fowle linnen , and being earnest about my businesse , there suddenly came a Moore vnto me , who taking my clothes out of my hands , and calling me by my name , said he would help me . You doubt not but this was some amazement to mee , to heare such a man call me by my name , and in place so farre distant from my freends , countrie and acquaintance , which he perceiuing , boldly thus spake in the Franke tongue . Why Captaine , I hope you haue not forgotten me , for it is not yet fortie dayes , since you set me a land at Alexandria , with the rest of those passengers you brought from Argier , in your ship called the Troyan : and here is another in this Carauan , whom you likewise brought in companie with you , and would not be a little glad to see you . I demaunded of him if he dwelt there : he answered me no , but both he and his fellow were going in the Carauan to Damasco , which place they call Sham , and thence to Beggdatt , which we call Babylon , thence to Mecha to make a Hadgee , for so they are called when they haue bin at Mecha : moreouer , he told me that he dwelt in the Cittie of Fesse in Barbarie . This man ( in my mind ) God sent to be the meanes of mine immediate deliuerie . For after I had taken good notice of him , I well remembred that I saw him in my ship ; though one man among 300. is not very readily knowne : for so many brought I from Argier into those partes of different Nations , as Turkes , Moores , Iewes and Christians . I desired this man to bring me to the sight of his other companion , which ( hauing washed my linnen ) he did , & him I knew very readily . These two concluded , that the one of them would depart thence with the Carauan , and the other goe along with me to Ierusalem , which was the Moore before remembred : & such kind care had the Infidel of me , as he would not leaue me vnaccompanied in this strange Land , which I cannot but impute to Gods especiall prouidence , for my deliuerance out of prison , else had I bin left in most miserable case . When this Moore sawe mee thus imprisoned in Ierusalem , my dungeon being right against the Sepulcher of Christ , albeit he wept , yet he had me be of good comfort . Away went he to the Bashawe of the citie , and to the Saniack , before whome he tooke his oath , that I was a Mariner of a Shippe , which had brought 250. or 300. Turkes and Moores into Egypt from Argier and Tunis , their iourney being vnto Mecha . This Moore ( in regard he was a Muzzle-man ) preuailed so wel with them , that returning with sixe Turkes back to the prison , he called me to the doore , and there saide vnto me : that if I would goe to the house of the Pater Guardian , and yeeld my selfe vnder his protection , I should be enforced to no religion but mine owne , except it were to carie a candle , to the which I willingly condescended . So paying the charges of the prison , I was presently deliuered , and brought to the Guardians Monastery : where the Pater comming to me , tooke mee by the hand and bad me welcome , maruailing I would so much erre from Christianitie , as to put my selfe rather vnder the Turkes then his protection . I told him , what I did , was because I would not goe to Masse , but keepe my conscience to my selfe . He replyed , that many Englishmen had beene there , but ( being Catholiques ) went to Masse , telling the Turks at the Gates entrance , that they were Frenchmen , for the Turkes knowe not what you meane by the worde Englishman : aduising me further , that when any of my Countreymen vndertooke the like trauaile , at the gates of Ierusalem they should tearm themselues either Frenchmen or Fritons , because they are well knowne to the Turkes . This or such like conference past betweene vs : also how old our Queenes Maiestie was , and what was the reason she gaue nothing to the maintenance of the Holy Sepulcher , as well as other Christian Kings and Princes did ? with diuers other triuial questions , whereto I answered accordingly . The day being spent euen to twi-light , master Iohn Burrel , who passed for a Greeke without any trouble , came in vnto vs , being neuerthelesse constrained to this Monasterie , or else he might not stay in the citie : for such sway doe the Papistes cary there , that no Christian stranger can haue admittance there , but he must be protected vnder them , or not enter the citie . Master Burrell and I being together in the Court of the Monastery , twelue fat-fed Fryers came foorth vnto vs , each of them carying a waxe candle burning , and two spare-candles beside , the one for master Burrel , the other for me . Another Frier brought a great Bason of warme water , mingled with Roses and other sweete flowers , and a Carpet being spread on the ground , and Cushions in Chaires set orderly for vs : the Pater Guardian came and set vs downe , giuing each of vs a Candle in our hands , then came a Frayer and puld off our hose , and ( setting the Bason on the Carpet ) washed our feete . So soone as the Fryer began to wash , the twelue Fryers began to sing , continuing so till our feete were washed : which being done , they went along singing , & we with the Guardian came to a Chappell in the Monastery , where one of them began an Oration in forme of a Sermon , tending to this effect : how meritorious it was for vs to visit the Holy land , & see those sanctified places where our Sauiours feete had trode . The Sermon being ended they brought vs to a chamber where our supper was prepared : there we fed somwhat fearefully , in regard the strange cates haue as strange qualities : but committing our selues to God , & their outward-appearing Christian kindnesse , we fell to hartily , supt very bountifully , & afterward ( praysing God ) were lodged decently . Thus much for my first daies entertainement in Ierusalem , which was the 25. day of March 1601. being our Lady day in Lent . Now followes what the Fryers afterward shewed mee , being thereto appointed by the Pater Guardian .

Earely the next morning we arose , and hauing saluted the Pater Guardian , he appointed vs seauen Friers and a Trouchman : so foorth we went to see all the holy places in the citie which were to be seene , except those in Sepulchra sancta , for that required a whole daies work afterward , and at euery place where we came , we kneeled downe , and saide the Lords prayer .

The first place of note that the Fryers shewed vs , was the place iudiciall : next , the house of Veronica sancta : and demanding of them what Saint that was , they told me it was shee that did wipe our Sauiours face , as he passed by in his agonie . Descending a little lower in the same street , they shewed mee the way which our Sauiour went to crucifying , called by them Via dolorosa . Then on the right hand in the same street , I was showne the house of the rich glutton , at whose gate poore despised Lazarus lay . Holding on our way downe this streete , wee came to a turning passage on the left hand : whence they tolde me Simon Sirenus was comming toward the Dolorous way , when the Soldiours seeing him , called him , and compeld him against his will to helpe our Sauiour to carie his crosse . Then they told mee , that in the same place the people wept , when Christ answering said vnto them : Oh daughters of Ierusalem , weepe not for mee . &c. Next , they shewed me the Church , where the virgine Marie fell into an agonie , when Christ passed by , carying his Crosse. Afterward they brought mee to Pilates Palace , which though it be all ruinated , yet is there an olde Arche of stone , which is still maintained by the Christians , and it standing full in the high way , wee passed vnder it : much like the way of passage vnder master Hammons house in the Bulwarke , but that the Arch is higher : for vpon that Arche is a Gallerie , which admitteth passage ( ouer our heads ) from one side of the streete to the other : for Pilates Palace extended ouer the high way on both sides , and Pilate had two greate windowes in the saide Gallerie , to gaze out both waies into the streete , as master Hammon hath the like aduantage at both his windowes . Into this Gallery was our Sauiour brought , when hee was showen vnto the Iewes , and they standing belowe in the street , heard the words of Ecce homo . A little from this place , is the foote of the staires , where our Sauiour did first take vp his Crosse. Then they brought mee to the place , where the virgine Marie was conceiued and borne , which is the Church of Saint Anna , and no Turkish Church . Next , they shewed me the Poole , where Christ cleansed the Leapers , and then guiding mee to Saint Stephens gate , a little without it vpon the left hand , they shewed mee the stone wheron S. Stephen was stoned . From hence I sawe the staires going vp to porte Aurea , at which porte are diuers reliques to be seen : it was the East gate of the Temple , which Salomon built vpon mount Moria , in which Temple was the place of Sanctum Sancterum : but now in that place is builded a goodly greate Church , belonging to the Turkes . Thus spent I the second day , being the 26. of March , all within the gates of Ierusalem , except my going to see the stone wherewith S. Stephen was stoned .

The next day , being the 27. of March , hauing done our dutie to God and the Pater Guardian , we hyred Asses for the Friers and the Trouchman to ride on , and going foorth the citie gates , we mounted and rode directly toward Bythinea . By the way as we rode , they shewed me the place of the fruitlesse Fig-tree , which Christ cursed : next , the Castle of Lazarus , that Lazarus whome Christ loued so well : for his house or Castle is in Bythinea , but it is vtterly ruinated , and nothing to be seene but the two sides of a wall . In the same towne , they shewed me the house of Marie Magdalen , but al so ruinated , that nothing is left of it but a piece of a wall : there I sawe likewise Marthaes house , consisting of three pieces of a wall : and thence they brought me to the stone , where the two sisters tolde Christ that Lazarus was deade : from whence passing on , they shewed me the place where our Sauiour raised Lazarus from death , after he had lien three daies in the ground , and where he was buried afterward when he died . This place hath bin not ably kept from the beginning , and is repaired still by the Christians , but yet in poore and very bare sort , and this is all that I saw in Bythinia . From hence we rode vnto Mount Oliuet , & passing by Bethphage , they brought me to the place , where our Sauiour tooke the Asse and Colte , when he rode to Ierusalem vpon Palme Sunday . Riding from Bethphage directly to the North , wee came to the foote of Mount Oliuet , where they shewed me the place Benedicta of the virgin Maries Annunciation , and ascending to the top of the Mount wee saw the place of our Sauiours Ascension : at the sight whereof we said our Prayers , and were commaunded withal to say 5. Pater nosters , and 5. Aue Maries : but we said the Lords praier , tooke notice of the place and departed . This is the very highest parte of Mount Oliuet , and hence may be discerned many notable places : as first West from it is the prospect of the new Cittie of Ierusalem : Southwest from it may be seene the prospect of Mount Sion , which is adioyning to new Ierusalem : also in the valley betweene Sion and the mount whereon I stood , I sawe the brooke Cedron , the Poole Silo , the Garden wherein our Sauiour praied , the place where afterward he was betrayed , and diuers other notable things in this valley of Gethsemanie : as the Tombe of Absolon , king Dauids sonne , the Tombe of Iehoshaphat , and others which I will speake of as I come to them . Full South from mount Oliuet , I could see the places we came last from , as all Bythinia and Bethphage : also East North-east from this mount , may be scene both the riuer of Iordan which is some 15. miles off , and Iericho , which is not so farre , because it is to the Westward of Iordan . From mount Oliuet East and East-South-east , may be seene the lake of Sodome and Gomorrha , which is some 100. miles long , & 8. miles ouer : all these places I set with the Compasse when I was on mount Oliuet , for I staied on the top of it some two houres and a halfe , hauing a little Compasse about me . Descending hence toward the foote Westward , wee came to a place where the Friers told me , that a woman called S. Pelagia did penaunce in the habit of a Frier : whereat I smiling , they demaunded why I did so ? I answered , that to beleeue Pelagia was a Saint , stood out of the compasse of my Creede : they tolde me , when I should come home at night , they would shew me sufficient Authours for it : but when I came home I had so much to doo , in writing my notes out of my table bookes , that I had no leysure to vrge their Authours for S. Pelagia .

By this time they brought vs to the place , where our Sauiour did foresee the iudgement , then where he made the Pater noster , and then where the Apostles made the Creede . From hence wee came to the place where Christ wept for Ierusalem : thence , to the place where the virgin Marie gaue the gyrdle to S. Thomas : and then to the place where she prated for S. Stephen : all these last were comming downe mount Oliuet , towards the valley of Gethseminie , where by the way we came to our Ladies Church , wherein is her Sepulcher , and the Sepulcher of her husband Ioseph , with the Sepulcher of Anna , and many others in that Church . This Church standeth at the foote of Mount Oliuet , and was built ( as they say ) by Helena the mother of Constantine the great : here the Friers went into the virgin Maries sepulcher , & there either said Masse , or Praiers , while we in meane time went to dinner . In this Church is a fountaine of exceeding fine water , & in regard we went downe into a vault as it were , it giueth a meruailous loude Eccho or sound . Hence went we to the Caue , whether Iudas came to betray Christ when he was at prayer , and thence to the Garden where our Sauiour left his Disciples , commaunding them to watch and praie ; but found them sleeping at his returne : then they brought me to the Garden where Christ was taken , and all these last three were in the valley of Gethsemanie . Riding vnto the towne whereof the valley beares name ) on the left hand I saw the before remembred Sepulchers of Absolon and Iehoshaphat , and on the right hand , the brooke Cedron , which at my being there had not one drop of water in it : for ( indeed ) it is but a ditche to conuay the water from the two hilles ( I meane Mount Oliuet , and mount Sion ) when any store of raine falleth , and this ditche or brooke Cedron is in the valley betweene both those hilles . Hard by the brooke Cedron , they shewed me a stone marked with the feete and elbowes of Christ , in their throwing of him downe when as they tooke him , and euer since ( say they ) haue those prints remained there . From hence wee rode to the place , where S. Iames the younger did hide himselfe , and afterward was buried there : there also they shewed where Zachariah the sonne of Barachiah was buried , and brought me to another place , where ( they say ) the virgin Marie vsed often to pray . Then came we to the Poole of Silo , wherein M. Burrell and I washed our selues , and hence wee were shewen the place where the Prophet Esay was sawne in pieces : thence they guided vs to an exceeding deepe Well , where the Iewes ( as they say ) hid the holy fire in the time of Nabuchodonozor . Here we ascended from the valley to a hill side , which lieth iust South from mount Sion : but there is a great valley betweene , called Gehemion , and there they shewed me the place where the Apostles hid themselues , being a Caue in a rocke . Ascending higher hence , they brought me to the field , or rather to be more rightly tearmed the Rocke , where the common buriall place is for straungers , being the very same ( as they say ) which was bought with the thirtie pieces of siluer , that Iudas receiued as the price of his Maister , which place is called Aceldoma , and is fashioned as followeth . It hath three holes aboue , & on the side there is a vent : at the vpper holes they vse to let downe the dead bodies to the estimation of some 50. foote downe . In this place I saw two bodies , new or very lately let downe , and looking downe ( for by reason of the three great holes aboue , where the dead bodies lye , it is very light ) I receiued such a sauour vp into my heade , as it made me very sicke , so that I was glad to entreat the Friers to goe no further , but to returne home to the citie . So here we went through the vallie of Gehemion , and at the foote of mount Sion ( hauing a little bottle of water which I brought from the Poole Silo ) I branke , and rested there an houres space , eating a fewe Raisins and Oliues , which wee brought with vs from Ierusalem in the morning . After I had well rested and refreshed my selfe , we began to ascend mount Sion , and a little way vp the hill , they shewed me the place , where Peter hauing denyed Christ , and hearing the Cock crowe , went out and wept . Ascending higher , they shewed mee the house where the virgine Marie dwelt , which was near vnto the Temple : then they brought me to the place , where the Iewes setting on the blessed virgine to take her , she was conuayed away by miracle . Hence we went to the house of Caiphas , which was somwhat higher vpon mount Sion , and there I sawe the prison wherein our Sauiour was detained . Passing on still higher , they guided mee to a little Chappell which is kept by the Armenians , whereinto entring , at the high Altar they shewed me the stone which was vpon our Sauiours Sepulcher ( as they say ) and it is neer to the place where Peter denyed Christ , for there they shewed me the Piller , whereon the Cocke stood when hee crowed . Hence was I brought to the place where our Sauiour made his last Supper , and thence I came where the holy Ghost descended vpon the Apostles : whence passing on , they shewed me the place where Christ appeared to his Disciples , the eight day after his Resurrection , when S. Thomas desired to see his woundes . Neere to this place vpon mount Sion , the virgin Marie died , and hard by they shewed me a place bought by the Pope of the Turkes , for buriall of the Europian Christians , because he would not haue them cast into Aceldama : they tolde vs that the yeare before , fiue Englishmen were buried in that place , whether by the Friers poisoning them , or howsoeuer else it happened , but we thought it straunge , that all fiue should die together in one weeke . Thence came we to the house of Annas the high Priest , which is now but a paire of very old walles , & nothing else of it to be seene : but at the side of one of the walles , is an old Oliue tree , whereto they told me that our Sauiour was fast bound : and demaunding a further reason thereof , they said , that when he was brought vnto this house , Annas being asleepe , his people would not awake him : so during their time of stay , they bound him to the said Oliue tree , and when he awaked , then he was brought in and examined .