Note 15: — CAP. XX.

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 thereby are three15 other pyllers that alwaye drop water, and some saye that those pyllers weepe for our Lords death, and neare this aulter in a place xlii grees16 depe was founde the verye crosse by the assent17 of sainct Eleyn18 under a roch where the Jewes had hydde it and it was assayed, for they founde three crosses, one of our Lorde and two of theves. And Saint Elene assayed them on a dead body that rose as sone as the very19 crosse of our Lorde was laid on him. And thereby, in the vale, is the place where the foure nayles of our Lord were hyd, for he had two nayles in his handes and two in his fete, and one of those nailes the Emperour of Constantinople20 dyde make a bridell for his horse to beare him in bataile, for by21 the vertue that it had, he overcame his enimies, and wan22 all the land of Asye, Turky, Damasse the more23 and the lesse, Surrey and Hierusalem, Araby, Percy, and Mesopotamy, the Kingdome of Alabe,24 Egipt the high and the lowe, and other kingdomes many full nyghe all unto Ethyope the low, and also unto Inde the lesse, that then was chrysten. And there was in that tyme many good men and holy hermits, of whome the booke of25 the fathers lyves speaketh, and they are now in Paynims & Sarasins handes, but whan God will righte26 as these landes are lost through sinne of Christen men, so shall they be won againe by christen men throygh the helpe of God. And in the myddes of this Church is a compasse,27 in the which Joseph of Armath28 layd the body of our Lord whan he had taken him of29 the crosse & upon the same place dyd he wash the fete of our Lorde, & that compasse men say is in the myddes of the world.