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The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville Knight

CAP. XX.

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Yet of the holy citie of Hierusalem.

bell tower
bell tower

AND ye shall understand that whan men fyrst come to Hierusalem, they go fyrste a pylgrimage to the Church, where that the holy grave is, the whiche is out of the citie on the North syde, but it is now closed in with the wall of the towne, and there is a full fayre church rounde, all open aboue, and well covered with leede and on the west syde is a fayre toure and a strong for belles.

the pillar and three other pillars
the pillar and three other pillars

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · : Tried hard.Note 2 · : Mortise.Note 3 · : Mixed.Note 4 · : Steps.Note 5 · : Altar.Note 6 · : Bouillon.Note 7 · : Baldwin.Note 8 · : Placed.Note 9 · : Should read Ὁ θεὸς βασιλεὺς ἡμῶν πρὸ αἰώνων εἰργάσατο σωτηρίαν ἐν μέσῳ τῆς γῆς.Note 10 · : Should read Ὃ εἲδες, ἐστὶ βάσις τῆς πίστεως ὅλης τοῦ κόσμου τούτου.Note 11 · : Other editions have 33 years and 3 months.Note 12 · : Sooth, true.Note 13 · : Caius Julius Cæsar.Note 14 · : Other editions give the proper number of days, viz., 365.Note 15 · : Other editions say four, which is the number represented in the engraving.Note 16 · : Paces.Note 17 · : Perception, or sagacity. Lat., sensus.Note 18 · : Helena, mother of Constantine.Note 19 · : True, veritable.Note 20 · : Another is said to be incorporated in the so-called Iron Crown of Lombardy. Guisto Fontanini, Archbishop of Ancyra, gives a list of twentyNote 21 · : Through.Note 22 · : Won or conquered.Note 23 · : Greater.Note 24 · : Aleppo.Note 25 · : The Vitæ Sanctorum Patrum, many old printed copies of which exist.Note 26 · : When God thinks fit.Note 27 · : A linen swathing-band.Note 28 · : Arimathæa.Note 29 · 1: Tried hard. 2: Mortise. 3: Mixed. 4: Steps. 5: Altar. 6: Bouillon. 7: Baldwin. 8: Placed. 9: Should read Ὁ θεὸς βασιλεὺς ἡμῶν πρὸ αἰώνων Note 30 · And in the middes of the church is a Tabernacle made like a little house, in maner of halfe a compasse, ryght well and richly of gold and asNote 31 · Also within mounte Calvary at the ryghte syde is there an aulter where the piller lyeth that our Lorde was bound to when he was scourged and
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