Also within mounte Calvary at the ryghte syde is there an aulter where the piller lyeth that our Lorde was bound to when he was scourged and thereby are three[15] other pyllers that alwaye drop water, and some saye that those pyllers weepe for our Lords death, and neare this aulter in a place xlii grees[16] depe was founde the verye crosse by the assent[17] of sainct Eleyn[18] under a roch where the Jewes had hydde it and it was assayed, for they founde three crosses, one of our Lorde and two of theves. And Saint Elene assayed them on a dead body that rose as sone as the very[19] crosse of our Lorde was laid on him. And thereby, in the vale, is the place where the foure nayles of our Lord were hyd, for he had two nayles in his handes and two in his fete, and one of those nailes the Emperour of Constantinople[20] dyde make a bridell for his horse to beare him in bataile, for by[21] the vertue that it had, he overcame his enimies, and wan[22] all the land of Asye, Turky, Damasse the more[23] and the lesse, Surrey and Hierusalem, Araby, Percy, and Mesopotamy, the Kingdome of Alabe,[24] Egipt the high and the lowe, and other kingdomes many full nyghe all unto Ethyope the low, and also unto Inde the lesse, that then was chrysten. And there was in that tyme many good men and holy hermits, of whome the booke of[25] the fathers lyves speaketh, and they are now in Paynims & Sarasins handes, but whan God will righte[26] as these landes are lost through sinne of Christen men, so shall they be won againe by christen men throygh the helpe of God. And in the myddes of this Church is a compasse,[27] in the which Joseph of Armath[28] layd the body of our Lord whan he had taken him of[29] the crosse & upon the same place dyd he wash the fete of our Lorde, & that compasse men say is in the myddes of the world. [Footnote 1: Tried hard.] [Footnote 2: Mortise.] [Footnote 3: Mixed.] [Footnote 4: Steps.] [Footnote 5: Altar.] [Footnote 6: Bouillon.] [Footnote 7: Baldwin.] [Footnote 8: Placed.] [Footnote 9: Should read "[Greek: Ho Theos Basileus hêmôn pro aiônôn eirgasato sôtêrian en mesô tês gês.]"] [Footnote 10: Should read "[Greek: Ho eides, esti Basis tês pisteôs holês tou kosmou toutou.]"] [Footnote 11: Other editions have 33 years and 3 months.] [Footnote 12: Sooth, true.] [Footnote 13: Caius Julius Cæsar.] [Footnote 14: Other editions give the proper number of days, _viz._, 365.] [Footnote 15: Other editions say four, which is the number represented in the engraving.] [Footnote 16: Paces.] [Footnote 17: Perception, or sagacity. _Lat._, sensus.] [Footnote 18: Helena, mother of Constantine.] [Footnote 19: True, veritable.]