Caiphas, and there he was crowned again with eglentine,[35] and after that he was led to a chamber of Pilate & there he was crowned, and the Jewes set him in a chaire and clad him in a mantell of purpure[36] and then made they a crowne of Jonkes of the sea and there they kneled to him & scorned him saying _Ave rex Judeorum_. That is to say, haile King of Jewes. And of this crowne, halfe is in Paris and the other halfe at Constantinople, the which our Saviour Jesu Christ hadde on his head, when he was nayled on the crosse, and therefore shall men honour and worship it, and holde it more worthy then any of the other. And the speare shaft hath the Emperour of Almaine, but the head which was put in his side is at Paris they say, in the holy chappell, and oft tymes sayth the Emperour of Constantinople, that he hath the speare head & I have often seen it, but it is greater than that at Paris. Also at Constantinople lyeth Sainct Anne our ladie's mother, whom Saint Elene caused to be brought from Hierusalem, and there lieth also the body of Saint John Chrisostome that was bishop of Constantinople. There lyeth also sainct Luke the Evangelist, for his bones were brought from Bethany where he was buried: and many other relyques are there, and there is of the vessell of stone as it were marble, which men call Idryus, that evermore droppeth water & fylleth himselfe every yeare once. And ye shall wete that Constantinople is a fayre citie and well walled & it is three cornered, and there is an arme of the sea that men call Hellespon, and some men call it the bunch[37] of Constantinople and some call it the brace[38] of sainct George, and this water encloseth two partes of the citie, and upward to the sea upon that water was wont to be the great citie of Troy in a fayre plaine, but that citie was destroyed by the Grekes. [Footnote 1: Germany.] [Footnote 2: Sclavonia.] [Footnote 3: Comania may now be placed as being on the north-west side of the Caspian Sea.] [Footnote 4: Or Rosia, was Russia proper, by the Baltic; the huge Empire now so termed being then called Muscovy.] [Footnote 5: _Pynson_ says Nyflond, and in some MSS. it is written indifferently Nyfland, Nyflond, Nislan, and Neflond; but I have no doubt but that by it is meant Livonia, as is explained Apian's _Cosmographie_: "qui est la derniere Province d'Alemaigne, et de la Chrestiété, vulgairement appelee Liefland;" and this is the more likely as Siprus is spelt in _Pynson_ and other editions Pruysse, _i.e._, Prussia.] [Footnote 6: _Pynson_ says Chypron, other authorities Schyppronne, Cypron, and Chippronne.] [Footnote 7: Neuburgh; sometimes written Neaseburghe, Newbow, or Newborewe.] [Footnote 8: In other editions "evyll."]