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A05059	A briefe description of Hierusalem and of the suburbs therof, as it florished in the time of Christ Whereto is annexed a short commentarie concerning those places which were made famous by the Passion of Christ, and by the actes of holye men, confirmed by certeine principall histories of antiquity. Verie profitable for Christians to read, for the understanding of the Sacred Scriptures and Iosephus his Historie. Hereunto also is appertaining a liuely and beawtifull mappe of Hierusalem, with arithmeticall directions, correspondent to the numbers of this booke. Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Tymme minister.; Jerusalem sicut Christi tempore flourit. English	Adrichem, Christiaan van, 1533-1585.; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1595 (1595)	STC 152; ESTC S100442	70,773	138

and the other AGRIPPAS 6. THE PARLOVR OF SION was scituate about the middest of mount Sion being large paued and verie faire wherein Christ in his last supper did eate the paschall Lambe with his disciples washed their feete and instituted the sacrament of his most blessed body and bloud In the fame on the day of his resurrection when he was entered the dores being shut standing in the middest of his disciples he shewed vnto them the wounds of his side of his hands and feete and did eate before them after that breathing vpon them he gaue them the holy ghost and therewithall power to remit and reteine the sinnes of all manner persons The eight day after this here he offered vnto Thomas the Apostle the prints and scarres of the speare and nailes to see and feele Here after the Lords ascension Matthias was by lot chosen into the Apostleship of Iudas the traitour Here on the day of Pentecost the holy Ghost came downe in a great sounde and in the forme of fierie toonges lighted vppon one hundred and twenty beleeuers and at the first sermon of Peter three thousand Iewes were conuerted and baptized In this place Iames the Lordes brother sirnamed Iust was by the Apostles created the first Bishop of Ierusalem and Stephen with six more were ordained Deacons Heere the Apostles entered into the first consultation or councell and set downe the twelue Articles of Christian faith 7. THE CYPRES trees of Mount Sion which were very excellent whereof the booke called Ecclesiasticus maketh mention 8. THE HOVSE OF Annas the chiefe priest the father in law of Caiaphas wherein Christ was examined of Annas concerning his Disciples and his doctrine at what time he aunswered that he had taught openly before all men for the which he receiued a blow on the cheek by a seruant 9. THE HOVSE OF THE WOORTHIES wherin the strong men and valiant peeres of king Dauid dwelt where also as in a wrestling place the cheefe wrestlers and champions for exercise sake vsed to try maisteries 10. THE HOVSE OF THE VIRGIN MARY wherin after the death of her sonne she dwelt with Iohn the Apostle 11. THE HOVSE OF VRIA one of the most valiant souldiors of Dauid whose wife Bethsabe bathing her selfe in a fountaine of her Garden which also is to be seene in the map by her beautie allured Dauid to adultery beholding her from a gallerie of y e kinges house 12. THE VPPER MARKET by reason whereof the vpper cittie also was called sometimes the vpper market 13. THE STAIRES OF THE CASTLE or prison whereon the Apostle Paule stood when hee made aunswer for himselfe 14. THE STAIRES OF SION by which men went vppe to the cittie of Dauid 15 THE KINGES GARDEN the which also was called the garden of Oza wherin Manasses and Amon kinges of Iuda were buried 16 MELLO a valley or dale very deepe and wide which lay betwene mount Sion and the lower citty and extended it selfe from the water gate to the fish gate Dauid builded and compassed mount Sion round about from this valley the concauity and bottome whereof Salomon did make leuell and plaine that it mighte bee a conuenient streete and from thence forth it was called the streete of the water gate He also bewtified the same with buildings which being decaied was repaired by Ezechias In this place it was that Ioas king of Iuda was slaine by his seruants in the way downe to Sela. But in Iosephus time this valley was called Tyropoeon and was very large and full of dwelling houses At this day this valley is so filled vp with earth and stones that there remaineth only a small shew of the former concauity depenes 17 THE PALLACE OF CAIPHAS belonging to euery high prieste large and square wherein somtime dwelled Eliasib the cheef priest In this pallace the princes of the people being gathered together consulted among themselues what pollicy they might vse to catch Iesus and to kill him to whome he was there soulde by Iudas for thirty peeces of siluer Afterwards also he was thrise denyed by Peter and was by false witnesses of the Iewes accused before Caiphas in the counsell of the priestes and elders to whom when hee answered nothing beeing straightly charged by the high priest to tell whether hee were Christ the sonne of God the which when he confessed hee was conuinced as it were of blasphemy the cheefe priest calling for the sentence of the counsell threescore and six elders condemned him to be worthy of death and aunswering said He is worthy to die Wherevpon the seruants and souldiors did presently spit in his face they blinde-folded him buffeted him with their fistes commaunding him to prophesie scorned him all the night with sundry mockes and vexed him with many blasphemies and that I may speake much in few words no mortall man in this life is able to expresse what and how much hee endured this night And in the morning following the rulers of the Iewes assembled together in this place againe to deliuer him vp to death and leading him bounde they deliuered him to Pilate the deputie 18. THE FOVNTAINE OF SION the which was made with great labour and cost 19. THE BRIDGE OF SION by which men went through the valley out of the vpper cittie vnto the Temple 20. THE GATES OF SION which the Lord loueth more than all the Tabernacles of Iacob 21. THE VPPER GATE by which Ioas when he was crowned king of Iuda in the Temple and guarded with the princes of the Iewes was led into the pallace of the kings of Iuda 22. THE SEPVLCHER OF DAVID together with the field wherin the kings were buried the which verie stately was placed aloft in the citty of Dauid wherein Dauid himselfe Salomon and other kings of Iuda also Ioyada the chiefe priest were buried Into this monument of Dauids sepulture Salomon brought great treasure at his burial The which Hircanus y e high priest captain opening brought from thence 3000. talents of siluer Not long after this Herod the Ascalonit king of Iewes went about also to bring much treasure out from thence but a flame of fire breaking forth and consuming two of his souldiors he left off his enterprise and to make satisfaction for himselfe hee adorned the same monument with faire shining Marble which continued there a long time after Where y e Saracens afterwarde builded a church for themselues which standeth as yet which place they greatly reuerence and suffer not any christiā to enter into y e same 23. THE SEPVLCHER OF STEPHEN the first Martyr of Nichodemus and of Gamaliel Paules schoolemaister 24. THE TABERNACLE OF SION couered with skinnes which king Dauid made and placed the same in the little hil of Mount Sion

by the meditations of these afflictions of our sauiour faith is illumined hope strengthened charitie inflamed and all vertue increased Wherefore saint Augustine a light of the Church no lesse truly then godly prouoking vs by very forceable woordes therevnto saith thus Behould the woundes of him that hangeth the bloud of him that dieth the price of the redemer the scarres of him that ryseth His heade boweth to kisse thee his hart is opened to loue thee his armes stretched abroad to imbrace thee his whole bodie set forth to redeeme thee Consider what and how greate ●hese thinges be waigh them in the ballance of your heartes that hee may be wholy fastened in your hartes who for vs was wholy fastened on the crosse Thus far Augustine So that it is not enough to meditate of these thinges once but it is profitable to thinke vpon them often yea the oftener the more they auaile and profite In the wholesome contemplation of whose passion although we profite much yet we shall neuer attaine to the perfite knowledge thereof but there will remaine still somewhat that we may seeke for the full knowledge wherof is reserued to our heauenly countrey In the meane tyme let vs contemplate in these thinges day and night in these things let vs recreate and busie our selues In these let vs watch in these let vs sleep yea to die in the meditation of these things is most Christian and auaileable to euerlasting saluation Places of holy Scripture to the praise of IERVSALEM Lamenta II. Is this the citty of perfit bewty the ioye of the whole earth Ezech. V. This is IERVSALEM I haue set it in the middest of the nations countries y t are round about her II. Cron. VII I haue chosen this place for my selfe to be a house of sacrifice Isaias II. Micheas IIII. The Lawe shall go foorth of Sion and the woorde of the Lord from IERVSALEM Apocalips XXI I sawe the holy Citiie new IERVSALEM come downe from God out of Heauen prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband Tobit XIII O IERVSALEM the holy Cittie many nations shall come from far to the name of the Lord God with giftes in their hands euen gyftes to y e King of heauen all generations shal praise thee and giue signes of ioye Cursed are all they which hate thee but blessed are they for euer which loue thee Reioyce and be glad for the children of the iust for they shall be gathered and shall blesse the lord for the iust Blessed are they which loue thee for they shall reioyce in thy peace Blessed are they which haue bene sorrowfull for all thy scourges For they shall reioyce for thee when they shal see all thy glorie and shall reioyce for euer Let my soule blesse God y e great King For IERVSALEM shall be built vp with Saphires Emeraudes and thy walls with pretious stoanes and thy towers thy bulwarkes with pure gould And the streetes of IERVSALFM shalbe paued with Berall and Carbuncle and stoanes of Ophir And all her streets shall say Halleluiah and they shall praise him saying blessed bee God which hath extolled it for euer Thomas Newton to the louing Reader THat stately place that princely bowre that seate of mightie King That floure of Beniamin his tribe whose fame through world did ring Ennobled with such royall stiles and titles of renowne And ouer worldlie citties all most meete to weare the crowne Loe heere presented is to Viewe in such good currrant sort As no penne heretofore perform'd or made thereof report So that wee neede not now to runne or gad from place to place In daungers great through countreis staunge to trie or know this case That braue estate which earst it had is now alas defac'de King dauids house and temple now is quight and cleane disgrac'de Yet sitting still with booke in hand we here may plaine beholde The state of ech thing as it was in times that were of old Where Christ did preach where Christ did suppe where Christ did fast and pray Where Christ was caught where christ was whipt where theeues did him betraye Where he a precious raunsome paid for man who had offended Where he was buried where he rose and eke where he ascended Where Annas kept his pompous court where Caiphas palace stoode Where wicked Pilate dwelt that did condemne most guiltles blood This and much more is here discourst by him that both had read And seene with eye full thirtie yeeres where hee his life had lead Whose worke and paines as they deserue much thankes and hartie praise So Timme his guerdon well deserues of all men in these daies Aswell for heere acquainting vs with this rare worke of skill As also for his other paines that passed haue his quill Who like a candle wastes himselfe in giuing light to others Moe such God graunt to take like care to helpe their Christian brothers Thomas Newton ❧ A BRIEFE DESCRIPTION OF IERVSALEM AND THE SVBVRBES THEREOF AS IT FLORISHED IN THE TIME OF CHRIST 1 IErusalem the elect Cittie of God holy and most glorious built vpon the holy mountaines excelling all the citties of the world as well by the loftinesse of the seate as by the moderation and temperature of the heauens and fruitfulnesse of soile was situated in the midest of the whole worlde and of Iudaea as it were in the very center and heart of the earth And being as a Queene amongest all other neighbour citties had the preheminence as the head ouer the body and shined as the sunne aboue others in sumptuousnes and glorious buildings hauing such surpassing excellency she was by a certaine singular priuiledge in time past the onely place which God had chosen to himselfe and was a figure not only of euery faithfull mans soule but also of the elect Church of Christ militant vppon earth and of that blessed triumphant Church in heauen A cittie of perfect beautie the virgin of the worlde the paragon of all the Easte and the ioye and reioycing of the whole earth This cittie was builded about the yeare from the creation of the world two thousand twenty and three in the time of Abraham by Melchisedech the Kinge In hebrue it was called SALEM and in Greeke SOLYMA and it seemeth that hee possessed the same fiftie yeares The which afterwards the Iebusites enioyed who sprang from Iebusi the sonne of Chanaan of whome it was called for a time Iebus and Iebusaeum at what time Iosua slue the King thereof And the Iebusites helde the same eighte hundred and twentie foure yeares who trusted so much to the strength of their cittie that when king Dauid assailed the same in contempt of him and of his army they placed vpon their walles the blind the halt and the maimed saying that these were sufficient to beate backe the enemy But when Dauid through Gods helpe enioyed the cittie the Iebusites

Absalom and accursed be all they for euer which vniustly do persecute their parents 226 THE RIVER OF THE VPPER FOVNTAINE situate on the South parte of mount Sion which Hieron calleth the Fullers fountaine the which the noble king Ezechias repaired with the conduct therof also This he choaked with earrh at what time the Assyrians beseeged Ierusalem 227 THE SEPVLCHER OF ZACHARIAS the son of Barachias whome the Iewes slue betweene the temple and the altar THE PLACES ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE CITTIE 228. BAALPARASIM is a field in the valley of Raphaim wherein Dauid the king at the first time ouerthrew the Philistians and buried their Gods which he found in their tents 229. HERODS TENTS which as Iosephus witnesseth he pitched on the weste part of the cittie 230. THE FOVNTAINE GIHON THE LOWER which sprange vp in the end of the fullers field the waters wherof Ezechias brought vnto the vpper ountaine 231. THE FOVNTAINE GIHON the higher springing from the mount Gihon which afterwards Ezechias stopped vp and cutting deeper into the rocke he brought the waters thereof vnto the west parte of the cittie of Dauid by conduct pipes vnder the earth by which he brought it through the middest of the cittie into the innermoste fountaine leaste when the cittye should be beseeged the people might want water 232. IVDAS who of an Apostle being become a traytor hoong himselfe vpon a wilde figge tree And being hanged brust asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out 233. THE MOVNT OF CALVARIE a rockie mountaine of meane hight called in the Hebrue tongue Golgatha which was nexte to the Northwest parte of the cittie In the which place offenders condemned in open iudgement were put to death Where at all times a man might see the boanes and bowels of men hanged or otherwise put to death Here Christe Iesus our sauiour which knew no sin becam as the Apostle sayth sinne for vs that is to say was made a sacrifice for our sinnes and as if he had beene an euill dooer was hanged between two theeues and for our saluatiō crucified So that now mounte Caluary which aforetime was a place moste infamous by the passion and bloud of Christ is now made famous and honorable 234. MOVNT GIHON a mountain full of stones high and long which running along by the West part of the Cytty growing lesse and lesse towards the gate of iudgement is seuered from the Citty by a deepe valley In this mountaine at the commaundement of Dauid Salomon was annointed king by Sadoc the chiefe priest and by Nathan the prophet with the holie oyle To whom immediatly all the people cryed God saue king Salomon 235 THE MONVMENT of Anani the chiefe priest of which Iosephus maketh mention in his sixt booke and thirteenth chapter of the Iewes warre 236 THE PEARE TREES of the valley Raphaim the which Iosephus calleth the wood of weeping neere vnto the which Dauid assisted by God from Heauen gaue a second ouerthrow to the Philistines pursuing them a great way 237 THE SEPVLCHER OF CHRIST was a newe Monument eight foot long distant from Mount Caluarie one hundred and eight foot and from moūt Sion about a mile which Ioseph of Arimathea a noble Senator had hewen out in the rocke for himselfe in the Garden neere vnto mount Caluarie In the which Sepulcher he togither with Nichodemus and the virgine Mary with other godly women buried the body of Iesus being with the consent of Pilate taken from the crosse and then trimmed with mirre and Aloes and wrapt in a fine linnen cloath was put honorablely into the same the head layed toward the west And rolling a stone of exceeding waight to the mouth of the monument he went his way But in the meane time the chiefe priestes and Pharisies going about to hinder the resurrection of Christ takinge vnto them a strong garde of soldiors watched the sepulcher and sealed the stone which shut vp the mouth of the sepulcher least the keepers and watchmen being corrupted with money shoulde deale deceiptfully But this dilligence of the Iewes by which they went about to houlde Christ in the graue from rising againe increased the miracle and confirmed the faith of the Resurrection And there hee firste of all appered to Mary Magdalen at the monument as shee was weeping in the likenesse of a Gardener 238. A WOOD neere vnto the cittie as is to be gathered by Iosephus in his sixt booke and fourtene chapter of the Iewes warre 239 THE BROOKE OR RIVER GIHON at the south-west corner of the cittie which king Achas had begun to bringe from the lower fountaine Gihon into the vpper fountaine the which kinge Ezechias at the last finished 240 THE VALLE OF DEAD CARCASSES which lay betweene mount Caluarie and the walles of Ierusalem so called bicause the dead carcasses bones ashes of such as were put to death or burnt on mount Caluarie were cast thereinto 241 THE VALLEY OF THE FOVNTAINE GIHON whereof mencion is made in the booke of the Cronicles and in Iosephus 242. THE VALLEY Raphaim that is to say of Gyants It a is valley on the west side of the cittie very large great which beginneth at the north part and extendeth vnto the South bringing foorth most plentifully in time past excellent wheate wine oyle and al other fruites In this valley Dauid by the helpe of God twise ouercame the Phillistines which sought to inuade him with a great armie 243. THE WAIES TO BETHLEHEM Emaus to Gaza and to Ioppa which Salomon made with flint and stoane euen as he did other waies which led to Ierusalem both to make the passage more easie and also to shew foorth the magnificence of his kingdome in this point 244. THE WAIE TO SILOE and to Gabaon whereof Brocardus in his sixt booke of his traueile maketh mention 245. HERE CHRIST fell againe as according to the tradition of the fathers of old 246. HERE IESVS tourning himselfe about to the women that mourned and wept sayde ye daughters of Ierusalem weep not for me but weep for your selues and for your children bicause the day shall come c. 247. HERE CHRIST FELL DOWNE the third time vnder his crosse as the fathers of old time haue affirmed 248 HERE CHRIST WAS STRIPT OVT OF HIS GARMENTS whose body being all to torne with whips could not but be very soare wherunto his bloudy garments cleauing gaue newe occasion of paine when they were violently pulled off And standing there naked al the while that the cros was a preparing in the could wind he sate down at the length vpon a stone where he dranke wine mixt with gaule mirh 249 HERE CHRIST BEING LAYED ON HIS BACK ON THE CROSSE

created him the king of Ierusalem But the man being full of Godlinesse and humility would not be crowned with a crowne of gold after the manner of Kinges in the holy cittye but contented himselfe and reuerenced the like crowne of thornes with the which the emperour of mankind was crowned in the same place when he went to be crucified for our saluation Ierusalem therefore being recouered by the Christians was so held and enioyed by them fourescore and eight yeares Afterward namely in the yeare 1187. the second day of october the Christian princes wo and alas disagreing amonge themselues Ierusalem was deliuered vp to Saladine the Soldane of Egypt vppon this condition that it should be lawfull for the Christians to departe with bag and baggage the which Saladine held it three hundred and thirtie yeares But in the yeare of our Lord 1517. it was inuaded by Selimo the emperour of turques is at this day in the same compasse of walles possessed by the Turkes who name it Cusumobarech or Codsbarich that is to say a holy cittie So that from the first foundation thereof vnto this present yeare one thousand fiue hundred ninety foure are passed three thousand fiue hundred thirtie and one yeares THE FIRST PART OF THE CITTIE THE PLACES VVITHIN THE CITTIE 2 MOVNT SION which is called y e mount of the Lorde and the Holy Mountaine is much more higher then other mountaines and larger after the fashion of a Theater in the fourme of a halfe circle compassing the cittie on the south parte And being set as a looking glas on a high place founded by God vppon a firme rocke on euery side broken off had a plainenes thereon like to a towne and being very pleasant and recreatiue it represented the excellencie and delights of heauen Whose top the Iebusites first of all fortified with a strong castle and the compasse thereof with firme and loftie walles with gates and with towers Whome when Dauid the king had expulsed he made the castle and the walles round about the gates and the towers much more defensible and made the top and plainenesse of the hill into streetes and lanes and builded there for himselfe for his nobles and worthies houses and called it the cittie of Dauid which now also Iosephus calleth the higher cittie and the holy parte The Machabees reedifying the same mountaine in compasse made it most stronge with many walles and lofty towers in such wise as notwithstanding any force it was inuincible only by famine it might be surprised where were many straight and narrow passages and many houses of cittizens placed From this mountaine according to the foretelling of the prophets a law and an euangelicall light came forth and as it were from the head it selfe it was spred forth into the whole bodie of the world for the sauing health of all nations The which when the Romanes by the iudgement and will of God against all hope of man and without bloudshed had taken the seditious within the Citty beeing stricken with a sudden feare and roaming heere and there from the wall and hiding themselues in their sinkes being dispersed in all corners and streetes with their naked swordes slue all that they met withall hauing no regard of persons or sex and set fire on the houses burning them and all those that were fled into them and destroying manie houses whereinto they entred for pillage sake where finding whole families dead whome the famine had consumed they so abhorred the sight thereof that they returned backe againe emptie running thorowe with their swordes all that they met and so filling the streetes with dead bodies that the whole Citty flowed with bloud in such aboundance that as Iosephus witnesseth many things burning were quenched with the plentifull bloud of the slaine But night comming on the slaughter began to cease but the burning increased The next day following Titus being entered into the Citty woondered at the fortifications of the Cittie and at the rockes of the towers which the Tyrants through follie had willinglie forsaken To be briefe when hee had seene their substantiall altitude and inuincible force we haue fought saith he by the manifest helpe of God and it was God which draue out the Iewes from these holdes For what hands of men or what engines of warre might haue preuailed against these Many such words spake he to his frends This mountaine though it were excluded out of the cittie yet afterward it was builded againe and inhabited But now being in the Suburbs most ruinous it lieth wast THE PLACES OF MOVNT SION 3. THe Castell of Sion being ancient and strong was set on the verie toppe of mount Sion round like a crown and was a sure defence and beautie both of the Cittie and Temple and was as the capitall or chiefe place of so great a cittie Heerein the Iebusites dwelte at the firste whome Dauid casting out by force enioyed the castle and receiuing from Hiram king of Tyrus stones wood and artificers builded out of the same a strong pallace for himselfe and a house of Cedar with a kingly throne In the which castle afterward Dauid himselfe and other kings of Iuda inhabited and vsed the same for the kinges seat And for this cause it was continually kept with a straight garde of souldiors And in processe of time it was called the kings castle and the house of Dauid the seate and throne of Dauid also the Court and kings house In this castle the most cruell of all tyrantes Antiochus king of Syria which in Greeke was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say Renoumed but more truly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Mad he deserued to be called placed a garrison of Gentiles whereby in the time of the Machabes hee afflicted the Iewes very much a long time The which when Simon Machabaeus had inforced to yeeld thrugh famine and had cleansed the castle from the pollusion of Idols they entered therinto with palmes in their hands with Cimbals with psalterions with hymnes and songes and he placed therein men of the Iewes to defend the Cittie and countrey yet nowe there is nothing to be seene but the ruines thereof 4. THE KINGS PRISON with a lofty Tower which ouerlooked the kings house Into this prison Ieremie was cast because hee prophesied that the Cittie should be taken and at the last was deliuered out of the same by Nabuchadonezer when the Cittie was taken 5. CAESARS and AGRIPPAS hall was the kings house which Herod the Ascalonite builded for himselfe in the vppermost cittie for he builded in his pallace two great and faire houses of polished marble and fine gold wherevnto the Temple it selfe was not comparable and calling them after the names of Caesar Augustus and of Agrippa his sonne in law his friends he named the one CAESARS

pompe and triumph the true king and humble triumpher entered in at the goulden gate and rode aboute the temple and the greatest part of the cittie With this newe spectacle the whole cittie was moued saying Who is this The multitude which followed him answered This is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth a Citty af Galile Then the crie of those that reioysed and were gladde increased more and more and men and women young and olde yea which is wonderful the very infants which came from al parts cryed out together Osanna to the sonne of Dauid Blessed bee the king of Israel which commeth a king in the name of the Lord. Blessed be the kingdome that commeth in the name of him that is Lord of our father Dauid peace in Heauen and glory in the highest Osanna in the hyghest With these ioyful voices and cryes they proclaiming their Messias followed him euen into the Temple Where this newe king happily beginning his kingdome presently healed the blinde and the lame In the meane time the wicked and enuious Pharisies the chiefe priestes and Scribes doo fret and fume who seeing the great maruels which he did and the children crying in the temple Osanna to the sonne of Dauid said among themselues Do ye not see how we profit nothing Behold the whole world goeth foorth after him Wherevpon they begin with Iesus himselfe saying Mayster doost thou heare what these say Rebuke thy Disciples To whome he shewing that this was long before prophesied of by the Prophet answereth Why should they not Haue ye not read Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings thou hast ordained praise I say vnto you if these holde their peace the stones shall presentlie crye THE PLACES ON THE SOVTH PART OF THE CITTIE 213. ABACVC Here the Angell of the Lord taketh vp the prophet Abacuc by the haire of the head as hee was carying to the reapers in the fielde their dinner and caried him with the same meat into Babilon to feede Daniel being shut vp in the Lyons denne Who being fed he brought Abacuc hither againe 214 ACELDEMA or Haceldemach that is to saye the fielde of bloud It was a potters fielde situate at the South parte of mounte Sion hauing behinde it a hill of the same name This fielde by the counsaile of the Iewes was bought with the thirtie peeces of siluer for the which Iudas soulde Christ that it might serue to bury strangers in the middle parte whereof the Emperesse Helen caused to be inclosed with a foure square wall in length seuenty and two foote and in bredth fiftie And the same to bee couered ouer with a roofe hauing seuen loope holes by which the deade bodies of Christians might be let downe The vertue of this earth is reported to be wonderfull and almost incredible to witte that it bringeth and consumeth into dust the bodies of the dead men within the space of twenty foure howers leauing nothing but the bones 215 THE FVLLERS FIELDE which lay all along at the South ende of the cittie euen from the valley of Siloe east ward vnto mount Gihon towards the west and betweene the wall of the citty and the water In this fielde the Fullers did scoure their cloathes in the brooke next adioyning and did set them on tainters and so dry them 216. THE DENNE OR CAVE of Iames the lesse wherin he is said to haue hid himselfe by the space of three dayes hauing vowed not to eate breade vntill Christe was risen agayne For the which cause the Lorde appered to him a parte after his resurrection 217 THE CAVE OF PETER THE APOSTLE wherein after hee had denied the Lorde thrise hee repented him and mourned with many teares 218 THE TENTS OF THE ASSYRIANS of whom for a reuenge of their blasphemy the most stronge to the nomber of 185000 in the very first night of the beseeging Ierusalem were slaine by the Angell of the Lord and as Augustine reporteth their bodyes were brought into dust that they might not infect the aier their garments armour and weapons notwithstanding remaining whole and sound that the people of Ierusalem might haue the spoile 219 THE HOVSE OF ELIAS wherein it is said that the prophet Elias sometime dwelt Where afterward also a Church was builded 220. THE MOVNTAINE EROGE otherwise called the South Mountaine being very high and loftie bowing a little towarde the west Concerning this mountaine this is worthy to bee noted That when Ozias king of Iuda presumed to put on him the priests attire entered into the sanctuary of the Temple and offered vpon the golden altar the incense of sweete sauour vnto God by and by there came a great earthquake whereof also Amos and zacharias the Prophets make mention whereby the vpper part of the Temple was shaken and this mountaine cleft in the mids with so great and terrible violence that one part thereof falling and tumbling downe was rolled and carried by the space of foure furlongs euen right ouer against the East mountaine which is called the mount of offence where at the length it staied King Ozias himselfe in the meane time blasted and terrified with lightning was stricken in the forehead with a Leprosie For the which cause he being presently cast out of the Temple and Citty languished all his life long and was shut vp in his house and separated euen till the day of his death 221. A FOVNTAINE At this Fountaine the Starre which vanished away when the three wise men which came from the East were entered Ierusalem appeared vnto them againe and led them vnto Bethlehem 222. THE CAVE OF the Prophet Ieremy wherein he sitting with a greeued and sorrowfull mind wept moorned and bewailed the destruction of Ierusalem with sobs and sighes Where Helena the Empresse as Nicephorus testifieth builded a notable monument 223 ISAIAS Here that notable Prophet Isai when hee prophesied in Ierusalem about threescore and ten yeares by the commandment of king Manasses was split through the body with a sawe and was buried vnder an Oake whose sepulture is to be seene at this day 224 THE CAVES OF THE APOSTLES There are many Caues wherein eight of the Apostles as it is reported hid themselues during the time of the Lords passion 225 THE MONVMENT ABSOLOM is a marble piller with an Inscriptiō on the same distant from Ierusalem two furlonges which Absolom beeing aliue set vppe to himselfe for a monument in the kings valley where there is as yet to be seene a great heape of stones which daily is increased more and more For the Pagans and strangers passing by that way vse this for a custome that euery man cast a stone at the piller and challenging as it were according to the lawe his rebellion againste his father Dauid they cursse him with this malediction Cursed be the Parricide