¶Of Sichima. cap. 149.
SIchima, is a little lande in Samaria in the middes betwéene Iudea & Galilea: and hath the name of Sichem the sonne of Emor, that builded therein a citie that was called Sichem that now is named, Neopolis. (Neapolis. There are three ci∣ties of this name, one in Naples, one in Affrike, and the other in Caris.) And the Countrey thereabout is called Si∣chima, as Isidore saith libro. 15. Ierome saith super Genesis. 18. This was the portion of that land, that Iacob gaue to his sonne Ioseph ouer the lot. And so that land was in the linage of Ephraim, and there Ioseph was buried, and there his tombe is shewed vnto this daye, as Ier. saith. Iacob got that land, & bought it with money gotten with great trauel, and gaue therefore an hundred Lambes, as it is said Genesis 24. Ier. saieth, that for that trauell Iacob sayd, that he tooke that land out of the Amorteis hand, with bowe and with sword. There nigh was Terebintus a trée, vnder the which Ia∣cob bid the mawnets of his sonnes. And then he went vp out of Sichima into Lusa, that is called Bethel. Also as it is saide Genesis 25. In this place Iosephs bretheren fedde and kept flockes: but when Ioseph cought them, he found them not in Sichem, but in Dotaym: where they spoyled him, and solde him to Aegyptians. And afterwade Abimelech the sonne of Ieroboal, destroyed Sichi∣ma, and slew the men that dwelled ther, and sowed salte in the Countrey about, as it is sayd Iudie. 10. In this field was Iacobs well, by the which our Lorde re∣sted, when he was wearie of the waye, and badde the woman giue him drinke of the water of the Well, as it is sayde Iohn. 4. This place is most fertile,