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A05597	The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveying of forty eight kingdomes ancient and modern; twenty one rei-publicks, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands. ... divided into three bookes: being newly corrected, and augmented in many severall places, with the addition of a table thereunto annexed of all the chiefe heads. Wherein is contayed an exact relation of the lawes, religions, policies and governments of all their princes, potentates and people. Together with the grievous tortures he suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine ... And of his last and late returne from the Northern Isles, and other places adjacent. By William Lithgow.; Most delectable, and true discourse, of an admired and painefull peregrination from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affricke	Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?	1640 (1640)	STC 15714; ESTC S108592	306,423	530

also the Tree to the which our Saviour was bound whiles Annas was making himselfe ready to leade him to Caiphas but that I will not believe for that Tree groweth yet being an Olive Tree They shewed us also the house where Saint Peter was imprisoned when his fetters were shaken off his legs and the prison doores cast open and hee relieved And where Zebedeus the Father of Iames and Iohn dwelt which are nothing but a lump of Ruines Thence we came to the decayed Lodging of Caiphas without the City upon the Mount Syon whereupon there is a Chappell builded and at the entry of that little Domo wee saw the stone on which the Cock crew when Peter denied Christ. Within the same place is the stone that was rolled to the Sepulcher doore of our Saviour being now made an Altar to the Abasines These Abasines are naturally born black and of them silly Religious men who stay at Ierusalem in two places to 〈◊〉 heer at Caiphas House on mount Syon and the other Convent on mount Moriah where Abraham would haue sacrificed Isaac They wear on their heads flat round Caps of a blackish colour and on their bodies long gownes of white Dimmety or linnen cloath representing Ephods the condition of themselves being more devout than understanding the true grounds of their devotion blind zeale and ignorance overswaying their best light of knowledge They being a kinde of people which came from Prester Iehans dominions And within that Chappel they shewed us 〈…〉 wherein say they Christ was 〈◊〉 the night before he was brought to the Judgement Hall Upon the same side of Syon we saw the place where Christ did institute the Sacraments and not far hence a decayed House where say they the Holy Ghost discended vppon the Apostles and also the Sepultures of David and his sonne Salomon Over the which their is a Moskie wherein no Christian may enter to see these monuments For the Turkes doe great Reverence to most of all the ancient Prophets of the old Testament From thence wee returned and entred in via dolorosa the dolorous way by which our Lord and Saviour passed when hee went to be crucified carrying the Crosse upon his Back And at the end of the same street say they the Souldiers met Simon of Cyrene and compelled him to helpe Christ to beare his Crosse when hee fainted Pilats Judgement Hall is altogether ruinated having but onely betweene the two sides of the Lane an old Arch of stone under the which I passed standing full in the high Way Here they shewed us the place where Christ first took up his Crosse and on the top of that Arch wee saw that place called Gabbatha where Jesus stood when Pilat said to the Iews Ecce homo A little below this they brought us to the Church of Saint Anna where say they the Virgin Mary was born And going down another narrow Lane they pointed into a House and said hee Dives the rich Glutton dwelt who would not give to Lazarus the Crums of Bread that fell from his Table this I suspend amongst many other things for all hold it to be a Parable and not a History And although it were a History who can demonstrate the particular place Ierusalem having been so often transformed by alterations Th●s I must need say with such lying Wonders these flattering Friers bring Strangers into a wonderfull admiration and although I rehearse all I saw there yet I wil not believe al onely publishing them as things in different some whereof are frivolous and others some what more credible But as I said before I will make no or very small distinction in the Relation From thence we came without the Eastern gate standing on a low Banke called the daughter of Syon that over-toppeth the valley of Iehosaphat unto an immoveable stone upon the which they said St. Stephen was stoned to death the first Martyr of the Christian faith and the faithfull fore-runner of many noble followers As we returned to our own Convent they brought us to Mount Moriah and shewed us the place where Abraham offered up Isaac which is in the custody of Nigroes or Aethiopians to whom each of us payed ten Madins of Brasse the common coine of Ierusalem for our going in to that place And the other monastry that these Abasines detaine is on mount Sinay in the Desarts where the body of S. Katherine lyeth buried which is richly maintained and strongly kept by the Aethiopian Emperor There are 200. Religious Abasines in it and 100 souldiers to guard them from the incursions of Arabs who continually molest them because Mount Sinay standeth in the midst of that desolate Arabian wildernesse and far from any civill or inhabited place being distant from Ierusalem above 70 English miles Next they shewed us the place where Iesus sayd Daughters of Ierusalem mourne not for me c. And neer unto this where the Virgin Mary fell into an agony when Iesus passed by carrying his Crosse Also not farre hence we beheld the place where as they say Iesus said to his mother woman behold thy Sonne and to S. Iohn behold thy mother Ascending more upward they shewed us the House of Veronica Sancta and said that our Saviour going by her door all in a sweat to Mount Calvary shee brought him a Napkin to wipe his face which he received and gave it to her again in which say they the print of his face remaineth to this day and is to be seen at Rome It is also said to be in a Town in Spain and another of them at Palermo in Sicilia wherefore I believe the one as well as the rest So out of one if Papists can make three By it they would denote Heavens Deitie But O! not so these three revolv'd in one Points forth the Pope from him his tripled Crown He weav'd these Napkins lying rear'd his seat For which this number makes his number great As concerning the Temple of the most High built by Salomon the description of which edifice yee may read in the 3 of Kings it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar at the taking of Ierusalem Anno Mundi 4450. Secondly it was rebuilded again by the commandement of Cyrus King of Persia after the Iews returned from the Captivity of Babylon but not answerable to the state and magnificence of the former For besides the poverty and smalnesse of it there wanted five things which were in the other First the Ark of the Covenant Secondly the pot of Manna Thirdly the rod of Aaron Fourthly the two Tables of the Law written by the finger of God And fifthly the fire of the Sacrifice which came down from Heaven which were the Symbols and ●adges of Gods favour and mercy shown to them and their forefathers in his covenant of Love This Temple afterward growing in decay Herod the Great that killed the young Infants for Christs sake who suffered for him before he suffered for them built another much

Syon These are the Monuments shewn us upon the Mount of Olives First the print of the left foot of our Saviour in an immoveable stone which he made when hee ascended to Heaven the Guardiano told us further that the right foots print was taken away by the Turks and detained by them in the Temple of Salomon But who can think our Saviour trod so hard at his Ascension as to have left the impression of his feet behind him Next the place where hee foretold the judgement to come and the signes and the wonders that should be seene in the Heavens before that dreadfull day Thirdly the place where the Symbolum Apostolorum was made which is a fine Chamber under ground like a Church having twelve pillars to support it Fourthly where Christ taught his Disciples the Pater noster and where hee fell in an Agony when hee sweat blood and water Fifthly where Peter Iames and Iohn slept whiles our Saviour prayed and returned so oft to awake them and also below that where the other Disciples were left Sixtly the Garden of Gethsemaine where Christ used commonly to pray in the which place he was apprehended by the Officers of the high Priests and it was also where Iudas kissed him and the Serjants fell backward on the ground Seventhly they shewed us a stone marked with the Head Feet and Elbows of Iesus in their throwing of him down when as they bound him after he was taken and ever since say they have these prints remayned there And lastly at the foot of Mount Olivet in the Valley of Iehosaphat we descended by a paire of staires of forty three steps and six paces large in a faire Church builded under the ground Where say they the Monument of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is and did shew it unto us whom they think was born in Ierusalem dwelt at Bethleem and Nazareth and died upon Mount Syon I saw also there the Sepulchres of Ioseph her Husband Ioachim her Father and of Anna her Mother And for which sights paying sixteene Madins a man to certaine Moores we returned to our Monastery again night to repose us having seen all the Antiquities and places of note were to be seen in and about all Iudea Lo I have plainly described all these Monuments by the order of these twelve severall days The like heretofore was never by any Travailer so punctually and so truly and so curiously set down and made manifest to the intellective Reader But as I said in the beginning of my Description so say I now at the conclusion some of these things are ridiculous some of manifest untruths some also doubtfull and others somewhat more credible and of apparant truth The recapitulation whereof is only by me used as I was informed by Gaudentius Saybantus the father Guardian Laurenzo Antonio il Viccario and the Trenchman Iohn Baptista Then had we avaricious Baptista our Guide and Interpreter to reward every one of us propining him with two Chickeens of Gold And lastly wee gratified the gaping Steward the Cerberian Porter the Cymerian Cooke and his Aetnean face with a Chickeen of Gold the man from each of us amounting in all among the four Catz●cullioni to twenty foure pounds fifteene shillings sterling Nay this was not all for even when the Aegyptian Caravan was staying for us without the City the Guardian made a begging Sermon to us imploring our bounties to commiserate and support their great calamities losses and oppressions inflicted upon them by the Infidels with many other base and flattering speeches which indeed nine of us refused because of the great Extortion hee had imposed upon us before but the two Germa● Barons gave him the value of six English pounds or thereabouts And now finally ere I leave Mount Syon I think it not amisse to give the itching Traveller a frozen stomacke who perhaps soweth Words in the Winde conceptions in the Ayre and catcheth Salmons swimming on Atlas I will now I say justly cast up to him the charges I defrayed within the Walles of Ierusalem not reckoning my journall expences and tributes else-where abroad arising to 18 pounds 16 shillings sterling And there a cooling card for his Caprizziat and imaginary inventions And it may serve also to damnifie the blind conceit of many who think that Travellers are at no charges go where they will but are freely maintained every where and that is as false as an hereticall errour May the 12 and the 18 day of my staying there about mid-day the other ten I joyned with the Caravan who formerly had conditioned with us to carry us to Egypt to furnish the rest with Camels or Dromidaries to ride upon for I would never ride any for 19 Piasters the man discharging us also all Tributes and Caffars were to be imposed upon us by the way so we marched through the Southwest part of Iudea towards Idumea or the Edomites land and mean-while I gave Ierusalem this good-night c. Thrice sacred Sion somtimes blaz'd abroad To be the Mansion of the living God For Prophets Oracles Apostles deare And godly Kings who raisd great glory here Where Aarons R●d the Arke and Tables two And Mannaes Pot fire of sacrifice so From Heaven that fell were all inclos'd in thee Containing neer what not contain'd could be To thee sweet Sion and thine eldest daughter Which Titus fiercely sackt with Iewish slaughter And to thy second birth rais'd to my sight I prostrate bid thy blessed bounds good night Next for the Holy land which I have trac'd From end to end and all its beauty fac'd Where Kings were stall'd disthron'd defac'd renown'd Cast down erect'd unscepterd slain and crown'd The land of Promise once a Sea of Oile Whence milk and honey flow'd yea to a soile Where men and might like miracles were rais'd Sprung from a Garden plot A wonder prais'd Above conceit whose strength did for excell All other lands take thou my kind farewell And last Franciscan Friers O painted Tombs Where vice and lust lurke low beneath your wombs Whose hearts like Hell do gape for greed of gold That have Religion with your conscience sold To you I say a pox O flattering Friers And damn'd deceivers born and bred for Lyers Whose end my purse implores O faithlesse fellows And leaves you for your pains curst Hamans gallows Having bid farwell to Syon we marched that afternoon in the way of Gaza and arrived at night in a goodly Village more full of Iews than Moores called Hembaluda situate on the face of a fruitfull Hill and the last limit of Iudea Here the Germans and I were well entertained gratis by certain Iews that spoke Italian and much rejoyced to see such strangers in these bounds for two of them had been borne in Venice The Captaine and our company were all Aegyptians all of them being Christians called Copties viz. believers Their number was about 800 persons who had come up from Aegypt to dignifie for