[Footnote 20: Another is said to be incorporated in the so-called Iron Crown of Lombardy. Guisto Fontanini, Archbishop of Ancyra, gives a list of twenty-three places claiming to have a nail--Venice having _three_. M. Rohault de Fleury gives six more--whilst, according to tradition, Helena sent two to her son, and threw one in the sea to still a storm, thus leaving but one to meet all demands.] [Footnote 21: Through.] [Footnote 22: Won or conquered.] [Footnote 23: Greater.] [Footnote 24: Aleppo.] [Footnote 25: The Vitæ Sanctorum Patrum, many old printed copies of which exist.] [Footnote 26: When God thinks fit.] [Footnote 27: A linen swathing-band.] [Footnote 28: Arimathæa.] [Footnote 29: Off.] CAP. XXI. _Of the church of the holy sepulchre._ IN that Churche of the sepulcre on the north syde is the place where our Lord was done[1] (_in_) prison, and there is a part of the cheyne with which he was bound, and there he appeared fyrst to Mary Magdeleyne when he was risen from death and she trowed[2] that he had bene a gardeiner. In the Church of the sepulcre was wont to be[3] Chanons of sainct Benet and they had a pryour; but the Patryarke was theyr soveraigne. And without the dores of the Churche on the righte syde as men go up xviii grees,[4] our Lorde sayde to his mother[5] _Ecce filius tuus_. That is to say, Woman beholde thy sonne, _De inde dixit discipulo, Ecce mater tua_. That is to say, Then said he to his disciple, Behold thy mother.[6] And these wordes he sayde when he hanged upon the crosse. And upon these greces went our Lorde when he bare the crosse uppon his shoulder, and under these greces is a Chappell where the priestes synge, but not after our lawe, and alway they make theyr Sacrament of the aulter of bread, say _Pater noster_ &c., and other prayers, as with the which thing they say the wordes of whome the sacrament is made, for they know not of the addicions that many Popes haue made but they singe in good devocion. And nere there is the stone wher our Lord rested him when he was wery for bearing of the crosse. And ye shall understand that before the Churche of the Sepulcre is the citie most strong[7] for the great playne that is betwene the citie & the church; on the East side without the walles of the citie is the vale of Josaphat that commeth to the walles. In that vale of Josaphat without the citie, is the churche of sainct Stephen where he was stoned to death, and thereby is the gate gylted that may not be opened. Through this gate our Lord entred on palme Sonday upon an asse, and the gate opened against him whan he would go to the Temple, and yet are the steppes of the asse sene in three places the which stand[8] in full harde stones. Before the churche of the sepulcre two hundred paces, is a great hospitall of Sainct John, in the which hospytall are liiii pyllers made of stone. [Illustration]