th yron, and fiue great holes in it to looke
in, like the holes of taverne doores in London, they sit that are appointed
to receiue our money with a carpet vnder them vpon a banke of stone, and
their legges a crosse like tailors: hauing paid our money, we are permitted
to go into the church: right against the church doore is the graue where
Christ was buried, with a great long stone of white marble ouer it, and
rayled about, the outside of the sepulchre is very foule, by meanes that
euery man scrapes his name and marke vpon it, and is ill kept.

Within the sepulchre is a partition, and in the further part thereof is a
place like an altar, where they say masse, and at the doore thereof is the
stone whereupon the Angell sate when he sayde to Marie, He is risen, which
stone was also rowled to the doore of the sepulchre.

The altar stone within the sepulchre is of white marble, the place able to
confeine but foure persons, right ouer the sepulchre is a deuise or
lanterne for light, and ouer that a great louer such as are in England in
ancient houses. There is also the chappell of the sepulchre, and in the
mids thereof is a canopie as it were of a bed, with a great sort of
Estridge egges hanging at it, with tassels of silke and lampes.

Behinde the sepulchre is a litle chappell for the Chaldeans and Syrians.

Vpon the right hand comming into the church is the tombe of Baldwine king
of France, and of his sonne: and in the same place the tombe of
Melchisedech.

There is a chappell also in the same church erected to S. Helen, through
which we go vp to the place where Christ was crucified: the stayres are
fiftie steps high, there are two altars in it: before the high altar is the
place where the crosse stood, the hole whereof is trimmed about with
siluer, and the depth of it is halfe a mans arme deepe: the rent also of
the mountaine is there to be seene in the creuis, wherein a man may put his
arme.

Vpon the other side of the mount of Caluarie is the place where Abraham
would haue sacrificed his sonne. Where also is a chapell, and the place
paued with stones of diuers colours.

There is also the house of Annas the high Priest, and the Oliue tree
whereunto Christ was bound to when he was whipt. Also the house of Caiphas,
and by it the prison where Christ was kept, which is but the roome of one
man, and hath no light but the opening of the doore.

Without Ierusalem in the vally of Iosaphat is a church vnder the ground,
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