Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.

Of Thessalonia or Thessalonica.

THis was a citie of Macedon, in ancient times called Halia, because it stood vpon the sea; after, called Therma, of the hot bathes that were in it; and lastly, Thessalonica, of Philip the sonne of Amyntas King of the Macedonians, who gaue it that name ei∣ther of the great victory that he had against the Thessalonians, or else after the name of his daughter called Thessalonica, who was the mother of Cassandrus: it stood close by the Thermaick gulph, not farre from the mouth of the riuer Echedorus, 932 miles from Ierusalem towards the Northwest. The Apostle Paul taught publiquely in this city, and there conuerted a great multitude of people, Act. 17. Hee also wrote two Epistles to the inhabitants thereof, and sent them from Athens, being 232 miles distant.

In the time of Theodosius the first, Emperor of Rome, there hap∣ned by reason of some discontent, a grieuous sedition amongst the Thessalonians, in which stirre some of his captains & gouer∣nors were slain. Wherefore the Emperor (hauing intelligence of what had hapned) sent an army against the city, with authority to put to death a certain number of those who had rebelled: whence it hapned that the city was filled with many vniust slaughters: for the soldiers respecting more their priuat profit than the equitie of the cause, spared neither innocent nor nocent, yong nor old; so that as well the inhabitants as strangers that resorted thither did partake of this miserie, and suffered like punishment as did they which were the first authors of this rebellion.

But because the emperor was consenting vnto these euils, Am∣brose Bishop of Millaine would not suffer him without publique repentance to come to the sacrament of the Lords supper: where∣fore in a publique assembly hee acknowledged his offence with great contrition, Theodor. li. 5. ca. 17. & Soz. li. 7. ca. 24.

This town was afterward purchased by the Venetians, of An∣dronichus Palaeologus son of Emanuel Emperor of Constantinople; who held it a long time, vntill Amurath Emperor of the Turkes won it from them, and exercised grieuous cruelty vpon the inha∣bitants. At this day it is a faire and goodly city, wherein is to be seen 23 Churches, and is inhabited both by Christians, Iews, and Turks, as Sebastian Munster saith: but the greatest number is Iews, who are partly merchants, partly of other trades; their number in this place (as it is said by some of their own nation) is 14000, and they haue 80 synagogues: but they are constrained to weare yel∣low wreaths about their heads, the Christians blew, & the Turks white. There are many Iewes also in Constantinople and Adria∣nople; but in no place more than in this town, which is now cal∣led Salonica.