Here begynneth a lytell treatyse or booke named Johan Mau[n]deuyll knyght born in Englonde in the towne of saynt Albone [and] speketh of the wayes of the holy londe towarde Jherusalem, [and] of marueyles of Ynde [and] of other dyuerse cou[n]trees.

¶ Of the chirche of the holy sepulcre. ca. xxi.

IN that chirche of the sepulcre on the north syde is the place where our lorde was done in pryson in many places / & there is a parte of the chayne with the whiche he was boūde. And there he appyered fyrst to Mary mawdeleyne whan he was rysen fro deth / & she trowed that he had ben a gardyner. In the chirche of the sepulcre was wo∣ned to be chanons of saynt Benet / & they had a pryour but the patryarke was theyr souerayne / & without the dores of the chirche at the ryght syde as men go vp .xviij. degrees sayd our lorde to his moder. Ecce filius tuus. That is to saye. Woman beholde thy sone. Deinde dicit discipulo. Ecce ma ter tua. That is to saye / than sayd he to his dyscy ple. Beholde thy moder. And this worde he sayd vpon the crosse / & vpon thyse grees went our lorde whan he bare the crosse vpon his sholder / & vnder thyse grees is a chapell where preestes synge / but not after our lawe / & alwaye they make theyr sa∣crament of the awter of breed sayenge Pater nf. & other prayers / as with the whiche thynge they saye the wordes of whome the sacrament is made / for they knowe not of addycyons y^t many popes haue made / but they synge in good deuocyon. And there nere is the place where our lorde rested hym whan he was wery for berynge of the crosse. And ye shall vnderstande that before the chirche of the sepulcre

is the cyte moost weyke / for the grete playne that is bytwene the cyte and the chirche / on the eest syde without the walles of the cyte is the vale of Io∣saphat that cometh to the walles.

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In that vale of Iosaphat without the cyte is the chirche of saynt Stephen where he was stoned to deth / & there by is the gate gylted that may not be opened. Thrugh y^t gate our lorde entred on palme sondaye vpon an asse / & the gate opened agaynst hym whan he wolde go to the Temple / & yet are the steppes of the asse seen in thre places the whi∣che stande in full harde stones. Before the chirche of the sepulcre two hondred paces is a grete hospy talle of saynt Iohan / in the whiche hospytall be .liiij. pylers made of stone. And to go towarde the eest fro the hospytall is a ryght fayre chirche that

men calle our lady the grete / & than is there an o∣ther chirche after that y^• men calle our lady of the latyn / and there was Mary cleophe & Mary maw deleyne and drewe theyr here whan our lorde was done to deth.