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A35242	A journey to Jerusalem, or, A relation of the travels of fourteen English-men in the year 1669 from Scanderoon, to Tripoly, Joppa, Ramah, Jerusalem, Bethlem, Jericho, the River Jordan, the Dead Sea, and back again to Aleppo : with an exact account of all the remarkable places and things in their whole journey / in a letter from T.B. in Aleppo to his friend in London ; together with a map and brief account of the ancient and modern state of those countries.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1672 (1672)	Wing C7341; ESTC R31344	27,941	139

Skirmish Thirteen Thousand of them were Slain The People of Alexandria put Fifty Thousand of them to the Sword They of Damascus ten Thousand of them and Antonius a Roman Captain slew in Ascalon Ten Thousand and Cestius another Captain slew Fourscore Thousand and Forty Persons And now to come to the Wars mannaged here by Vespasian This Vespasion in the Seige of Aphaca slew and took Prisoners Seventeen Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Persons in Samaria Eleaven Thousand Six Hundred Persons and in Josepata Forty two Thousand two Hundred Persons In Joppa so many Killed and Drowned themselves that the Sea threw up again Four Thousand two Hundred Persons and the rest so totally perished that there remained none to carry tydings to Jerusalem of the loss of the Town In the City of Tarichea were Slain and made Captives Forty five Thousand Persons besides those which were given to the King Agrippa In Gamala there perished Ninety Thousand and none were left alive but only two Women In Gascala Five Thousand Men died by the Sword In the City of Gadara there were Slain Thirty two Thousand two Hundred besides an infinite number of such as Drowned themselves In Jerusalem it self there Died Eleven Hundred Thousand of them partly by the Sword and partly by Famine the worse Enemy of the two there were found two Thousand in Privies and Sinks and Ninety Seaven Thousand were taken prisoners insomuch that thirty Jews were sold for a Peny Now that Jerusalem was able to contain such a number of People is evident in that when Cestius was Leiuetenant of Jury the high Priest did at his Request number the People which came to Eat of the Paschal Lamb and found them to be two Millions and Seven Hundred Thousand living Souls all Sound and Purified And when Titus laid Seige to the City it was at the Feast of the Passeover when most of the People were there Assembled God as it were thus Imprisoning them All these Massacres besides divers others Omitted and infinite Numbers which were Slain in the Feilds and Villages which Drowned themselves and were privately made away Amounting to almost two Millions of People happened in the compass of foure Years beginning in the twelse of Nero and ending in the second of Vespasian Yet was not the whole Nation Rooted out till the Year One Hundred Thirty Six For then this Miserable People having stirred two notable Rebellions First under Trajan and asterward under Adrian the Emperours they were generally Banished their Native Countrey and never again suffered to inhabit it but as Strangers After this Desolation the Jews were dispersed all over the World and especially in Spain where Adrian Commanded many of them to dwell yet they found every where so little Favour that having divers times been put to greivous Mulcts and Ransomes they were at last quite t●rust out of Europe also The First Christian Prince that expelled the Jews out of his Territories was that Heroick King our Edward the First who was such a sore Scowrge also to the Scots and it is thought divers Families of those Banished Jews fled then to Scotland where they have propagated since in great Numbers Witness the Aversion this Nation hath above others to Hogs-Flesh Nor was this their Extermination for their Religion but for their notorious Crimes as poisoning of Wells Counterfeiting of Coins falsifying of Seals and Crucifying of Christian Children with other Villanies This happened in the Year One Thousand Two Hundred Ninety One And Sixteen Years after France followed our Example It was neer two Hundred Years after that Ferdinand turn'd them out of Spain and five years after him Emanual of Portugal did the like But the Countreys from whence they were Last expelled were Naples and Sicily in the Year One Thousand Five Hundred Thirty Nine In other parts of Christendome they reside yet in great numbers as in Germany High and Low Bohemia Lituania Poland and Russia In Italy also they are found but in no Countrey which is subject to the King of Spain They live very quietly at Rome under the Popes nose and St. Mark makes no Scruple to entertain them at Venice In sundry places of the Ottoman Empire they are found very numerous so that it is thought Constantinople and Thessalonica only have near upon twenty Thousand of them Asia is full of them as Aleppo Tripoly Damascus Rhodes and indeed all places of commerce and Traffique There are numbers of themifound also in Persia Arabia and about Cranganor in India And to come to Affrick they have their Synagogues and Lumbards bards in Alexandria the Gran Cairo as also in Fesse in Tremiseu and divers places in the Kingdome of Morocco there are about one hundred Families left in Jerusalem But the place where they are most unmingled is Tiberias which the Turks gave to Mendez the Jew for some signal services thither they oftentimes bring or send the bones of their dead freinds who have left large Legacies to be there interred from other places The City of Jerusalem was afterward re-edified by Elius Adrianus and given to the Christians from whom it was taken by Cosroes and the Presians in the Year Six Hundred Fifteen and from them forcibly wrested by Haumar and the Saracens in the Year Six Hundred Thirty Seven Next it fell into the power of Cutlu Moses and the Turks in the Year One Thousand Nine under whose oppression when it had long groaned Peter the Hermit stirred up the Westerne Princes to relieve the distressed Christians whose designs attained their wished effect under the Banner of the Victorious Prince Godfrey of Bullen in the Year One Thousand Ninety Nine This Godfrey for his merits was to have been invested with the Royal Wreath of Majesty which he denied thinking it unfit to wear a Crown of Gold where his Saviour had Worn a Crown of Thorns yet for the Common good sake he accepted the Title after whom reigned these Christian Princes Second Baldwin Third Baldwin the Second Fourth Fulk Earl of Anjou Fifth Baldwin the Third Six Almerick Seventh Baldwin the Fourth Eight Baldwin the fifth Ninth Guy of Lusignan the last King of Jerusalem during whose time Saladine the Sultan of Egypt won the Kingdom which his Successours defended against all invasions till the Year One Thousand Five Hundred Seventeen when Selinus the first Emperour of the Turks added the Holy Land together with Egypt to his Empire And so the whole Countrey of Palestine with the City of Jerusalem are under the dominion of the Turk to this day and is inhabited by some Christians who make a great benefit of shewing the Sepulcher of Christ and of late Years also by Moors Arabians Greeks Latines Turks Jews nay I may safely and probably say with People of all Nations The whole Land containeth Four Regions Idumea Judea Samaria and Gallilee Idumea beginneth at Mount Cassius or as some will at the Lake Sirbon reaching to the Eastward of Judea The Cheif Cities are Maresa Rhinocorura Rapha Antedon Ascalon

A Journey to Jerusalem OR A RELATION OF THE Travels of Fourteen English-Men in the Year 1669. From Scanderoon to Tripoly Joppa Ramah Ierusalem Bethlem Jericho the River Jordan the Dead Sea And back again to Aleppo With an Exact Account of all the Remarkable Places and Things in their whole JOURNEY In a Letter from T. B. in Aleppo to his Friend in London Together with a Map and brief Account of the Ancient and Modern State of those Countries London Printed by T. M. for N. Crouch in Exchange-Alley over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil 1672. A Iourney to IERVSALEM in the year 1669 The Temple of the Sepulcher Ierusalem as it now is London ●●●●ted for N Crouch in Exchange 〈…〉 To the Reader THis Relation comming to my Hands I thought it might be some Diversion to Observe what the Ignorant are made to Believe of those once Famous Places And though others have formerly Treated of these Parts yet we have hardly had an Exact Account since Mr. Sandys which being so long since No doubt some things are Altered some Worn out of Memory and it may be many more Legends Added According as it may stand with the Interest and Profit of the Priests If the Stile be not so Polite and Curious as might be Wisht I dare Assure the Reader that the Author never intended it for Publike Veiw but Writ it only as a Letter to satisfy the desire of his Intimate Friends wherein Men do not commonly so much Study Elloquence as plainess and Truth The last whereof I Suppose the Author is Guilty of because he had no Temptation to do Otherwise for I think it is not much Material to him whether it be Believed or noe And therefore you may Read and Judg of it as you Please A Brief Description of Palestine with an Account of the Ancient and Modern State of those Countries IN Former Ages this was One of the most Famousest Provinces of Syria Called First The Land of Canaan from Canaan the Son of Cham who by his often Chasings was driven to Possess and Inhabite the same Secondly It was called the Land of Promise because the Lord had Promised it to the Patriarcks Abraham Isaack and Jacob and their Seed Thirdly Jsrael of the Israelites so called from Jacob who was Sur-named Israel Fourthly Judea from the Jews or People of the Tribe of Juda. Fifthly Palestine by Ptolomays and others quasi Philistini The Land of the Philistines a potent Nation that dwelt there Sixthly The Holy Land so Named by the Christians because herein was Wrought by Christ the Work of our Salvation This Country is Situated in the midst of the World Between the Third and Fourth Climates the longest Day being Fourteen Hours and a quarter between the Midland Sea and Arabia from which it is Bulwarked beyond Jordan with a continual Ridg of Mountaines on the East lyes Celosgoia and Arabia Petrea on the South Idumea the Wilderness of Pharam and Egypt in the West a part of Phenicia and the rest hath the Mediterranean-Sea and on the North are the Mountaines of Libanus and a part of Phenicia It is distant from the Equinoctial Thirty one Degrees extending to Thirty Three so that in length from Dan unto Bersheba it containeth not more then Four Hundred Miles and where it is Broadest not Fifty This Famous Land was once commended above all Countries under the Sun especially in regard of the Salubritie and Wholsomeness of the Ayr being Seated under a Temperate Clime where the Winter is not too Cold nor the Summer too Hot and for Fertility a Land that Floweth with Milk and Hony Adorned with Beautified Mountaines and delightful Valleys the Rock producing Excellent Waters and no part empty of Delight or Profit for the Soyle yeilds abundance of all Fruits and Increase This Land aboundeth in sweet Springs and pleasant Pastures where they feed a great many Flocks of Sheep and herds of Cattle and Cowes which give excellent Milk as is in any Country in the World There is also brave Hunting and Hawking for Deere Goats Hares Partridges Quailes and other Birds Likewise they have all kind of Fowle also there are great store of Lyons Beares and Wolves found in Abundance The Land of Canaan was heretofore divided into Thirty Kingdomes and Kings when the Israelites Conquered it the most of the Ancient inhabitants being for their Sins by God Excluded the Land and put to the Sword by the Israelites The Israelites Ruled this Land about Foure Hundred Years by Princes and Judges till the time of Samuel These Princes or Judges were not all of one Tribe but the Best Gravest and Eldest were Selected and Chosen out of every Tribe Afterwards the Israelites growing weary of this Government at their Earnest request the Lord appointed them a King and so their Government was Changed into a Monarchie which continued many Ages but in process of time the Israelites endured many Miseries and Afflictions till at last they saw the utter Ruine and subvertion of their Kingdome What Alteration hapened to this Nation and with how many several Wars they were Plagued either because of their own stifneckedness that they would not be Obedient to their own Prince or brook any forreign Government or that for their Rebellion and Sins the Wrath of God was oftentimes Kindled against them or that Forreigne Princes were Ambitious to Incorporate this happy Land Holy Writ and Historigraphers Witness the same at large for how many times were they Subdued and brought into Slavary and Bondage because of their Sins and that they did not Govern and behave themselves well for sometimes their Necks were brought under the Yoakes of their Neighbours as the Egyptians Caldeans Meads Persians Macedonians and Romans yea and would never cease by their Rebellions Seditions and Conspiracies till they had brought their Government and Countrey to utter Destruction by Persecuting and putting to Death the Saints and Prophets sent them from God yea and at last Crucifying the Son of God the Lord of Glory and the Saviour of Man-kind by their Horrible and Murderous Hands and Nailing him to the Cross And finally wishing that his Innocent Bloud should be on them and their Children Which accordingly soon after happened to the utter Desolation of their Countrey the Romans laying wast and levelling to the Ground the Magnificent Structures and Buildings thereof destroying and burning Jerusalem the Temple and all the Ornaments thereof so that herein was verified the Prophecy of Christ while he was upon the Earth that one Stone should not be left upon Another And as for the People Divine Venegance did continually pursue them till the most part of them were destroyed and the rest Dispersed through out the World even to this Day For First The Inhabitants of Cesarea slew of the Jews in one Day about Twenty Thousand and such as fled were taken and Imprisoned by Florus the Leiutenant of Judea To Revenge this Slaughter the Jews set upon the Syrians in which

Azotus and Gaza Maresa was the birth-place of the Prophet Micha Neer unto this town Judas Machabeus overthrew Gorgius Rhinocorura Rapha and Atedon are towns of no great note Of Ascalon Sir George Sandis writeth thus in his travels That it is a place now of no great Reckoning more then that the Turk doth keep there a garrison Venerable heretofore amongst the heathen for the Temple of Dagon and the Birth of Simiramis begotten of the Goddess Decreta who enflamed with the love of a certaine youth that Sacrificed unto her and having by him a daughter ashamed of her Incontinency did put him away and Exposed the Child to the desarts and Confounded with sorrow threw her self into a lake replenished which fish adjoyning to the City this Decreta is said to be that Dagon the Idol of the Agrotonites mentioned in the Scripture which signifieth the first of sorrow who had her Temple close by the Lake with her Image in the figure of a Fish excepting the Face which resembled a woman But the Infant nourished by Doves which brought her Milk from the pailes of the Pastures after became the wise of Ninus and Queen of Assyria whereupon she was called Semiramis which signifieth a dove in the Syrian tongue in memorial whereof the Babylonians did bear a Dove in their Ensignes confirmed by the Prophesie of Jeremiah who foretelling of the devastation of Judea Adviseth them to flee from the sword of the dove Azotes where was a Sumptuous Temple built to the Lieutenant to Demetrius eight miles beyond that stands Acharon or Ekron where Belzebub was worshipped to whom Ahaziah sent to enquire of his health Lastly Gaza or Aza one of the five Principal Cities belonging to the Palastines called Philistines in Scripture Gaza signifieth Strong and in the Persian language a Treasury So said to be called by Cambyses who Invading Egypt sent thither the riches Purchased in that Warr it was also called Constantia by the Emperour Constantine first famous for the acts of Sampson who lived about the time of the Trojan Warrs whose force and fortunes are said to have given to the Poets their invention of Hercules who lived not long before him And it was afterwards famous for two Wounds there received by Alexander the great and was then counted the Chief of Syria Also there lyeth Joppa now Jafta a Famous Mart Town and a good Haven where Jonah took Ship to fly to Tarsus where Peter Raised Dorcas from Death to Life and where he lying in the House of one Simon a Tanner was in a Vision Taught the Conversion of the Gentiles This City they report to have been built before the Flood Here Reigned Cepheus the Son of Phenix whose Daughter Andromeda was by Perseus delivered from a Sea Monster some of whose Bones the people had wont to shew to Strangers even till the Flourishing of the Romans Here lyeth Gath also the Country of the huge Giant Goliah Judea is the Chiefest part of Palastina and is of the same extent now as it was when it was the Kingdome of Judea and entertained the two great and Puissant Tribes of Judea and Benjamin It lyeth between the Midland-Sea and Lacus Asphaltitis or the Dead-Sea and betwixt Samaria and Idumea It took this name from the Tribe of Juda in which lyeth the once famous City Jerusalem Besides Jerusalem also there are in this Country divers other Towns and famous Cities as Jerico Turris Stratonis afterward named Cesarea Hebron formerly now Arbea also Mambre and Carioth that is to say a Town of four Men the Birth place of Judas Iscariot who betrayed our Saviour Jesus Christ Emaus and divers others and Beyond Jordan Makherus a Town with a strong Castle here stood also the Towns of Sodom and Gomorah which for their Sodomy and Abomination were utterly destroyed and consumed with Fire from Heaven and lyes now buried in that Cursed Lake Asphalites so named of the Bitumen where it Vomiteth called also the Dead-Sea perhaps in that it nourisheth no living Creature or for his heavy Waters hardly to be moved with any Wind so Extream Salt that whatsoever is thrown thereinto not easily Sinketh Vaspatian for a tryal causeth divers to be Cast in bound Hand and Foot who Floted Aloft as if Supported by some Spirit They say that Birds Flying over it fall in as if Inchanted or Suffocated with the Poyson of the Ascending Vapors Samaria lyeth in the Midst between Judea and Gallilea the Land is so called from the Metrapolis Samaria Built by Amry King of Israel and now called Sebasta which Towns in it are Sichem afterwards Named Neapolis Capernaum Betzaida and Chorazin Galilea lyeth between Mount Labanus and Samaria and is divided into upper and lower Galilea Upper Galilea bordereth upon Tyrus called otherwise Galilea-Gentium or the Heathenish Galilea Lower Galilea lyeth near unto the Lake of Tyberius and to Nazareth In it are the Towns of Naim Cana Nazareth and Gadara The Holy Land is seated between two Seas and the River Jordan it hath within it many Navigable Lakes and Meers abounding with Fish the River Jordan is called by the Hebrews Jordan and runneth through the Midst of this Countrey dividing it into two Parts St. Jerom Writeth that this River Springeth out of two Fountaines not far distant one from the other the one called Jor the other Dan shooting out like two Horns which meeting together make the Great River Jordan The Chief Mountains in the Holy Land are Mount Hermon lying in the East part thereof and Mount Tabor in the West both of them being very Great and High so that the other Hills about them are but Armes and Branches of them For the Mountaines Eball Betheron Mispa or Maspha and Bethel are reckoned under Mount Hermon Gilboa Gerezin Sarona and Mount-Carmel by the Sea side are counted under Mount Tabor There are also about Jerusalem Mount Sion Moriah Mount Olivet Mount Calvary and others Besides there are many Goodly Woods and Forrests full of all kind of Deer and many Wild Beasts In this Land especially in about and Jerusalem there were many Stately and Magnificent Buildings as Namely Mons Domus and the Castle of the Jebusites into which King David brought the Ark of the Lord where it remained till Solomons Temple was Finished The remainders and Ruines of these Buildings are yet to be seen to this Day yea it is said that in the very Place the Lord Christ Eat the Pascal Lamb with his Disciples There are also to be seen the Sepulchers of King David and other Kings of Juda there stood also the House of David which yet retaineth the Name of Davids Tower Upon Mount Moriah are yet to be seen some remainders of Mello Above all we must call to mind the most Excellent and Beautiful Temple of King Solomon upon which One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Men Wrought Seven Years continually till it was Finished The Glory and Magnificency thereof you may Read in the Scripture The Temple of the Sepulcher at