Also From Jerusalem, Two Mile, Is The Mount Joy, A Full Fair Place
And A Delicious; And There Lieth Samuel The Prophet In A Fair Tomb.
And Men Clepe It Mount Joy, For It Giveth Joy To Pilgrims' Hearts,
Because That There Men See First Jerusalem.
Also between Jerusalem and the mount of Olivet is the vale of
Jehosaphat, under the walls of the city,
As I have said before.
And in the midst of the vale is a little river that men clepe
TORRENS CEDRON, and above it, overthwart, lay a tree (that the
cross was made of) that men yede over on. And fast by it is a
little pit in the earth, where the foot of the pillar is yet
interred; and there was our Lord first scourged, for he was
scourged and villainously entreated in many places. Also in the
middle place of the vale of Jehosaphat is the church of our Lady:
and it is of forty-three degrees under the earth unto the sepulchre
of our Lady. And our Lady was of age, when she died, seventy-two
year. And beside the sepulchre of our Lady is an altar, where our
Lord forgave Saint Peter all his sins. And from thence, toward the
west, under an altar, is a well that cometh out of the river of
Paradise. And wit well, that that church is full low in the earth,
and some is all within the earth. But I suppose well, that it was
not so founded.
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