And to go towarde the East from the hospitall is a righte fayre churche that men call our lady the greate, and then is there another church after that, that men call our lady of the latyn,[9] and there it was Mary Cleophe and Magdeleyne drew[10] theyr here whan oure Lord was put to death. [Footnote 1: Put.] [Footnote 2: Thought or believed.] [Footnote 3: Were formerly Canons of the Order of St. Benedict.] [Footnote 4: Should be _greces_ or steps.] [Footnote 5: The printer has omitted the word "_Mulier_ ecce," &c.] [Footnote 6: Gospel according to St. John, cap. 19, vv. 26, 27.] [Footnote 7: _Pynson_ says, "most wake" or weak, and other editions say, "feeble."] [Footnote 8: _Pynson_ has this passage: "The wyche are full of harde stones."] [Footnote 9: _Pynson_ says "Nostre dame de Vatyns."] [Footnote 10: Tore.] CAP. XXII. _Of the Temple of God._ AND from the churche of the sepulcre towarde the East at xviii[1] paces is _Templum Domini_. That is a fayre house and it is all rounde and ryghte high & covered with leed,[2] and it is well paved with white marble, but y^e Sarasins wyl suffre no christen men ne Jewes to come therein, for they say that so[3] foule men should not come into that holye place, but I came therein and in other places where I woulde, for I had letters of the Soudan, wyth hys great seal, and, commonly, other men but have of his signet, and men beare hys letter with his seale before them hanginge on a speare, and men do great worship thereto, and kneele against[4] it as it were against God's body: for those men that it is sent to, before they take it, they encline[5] thereto and then they take it, and laye it upon their heads, and afterward they kisse it, and then they reade it, all enclining with great worship, and then they profer[6] them to do all that the bringer will. And in this Templum Domini were wont to be Chanons regulers, and they had an Abbot to whome they were obedient, in this Temple was Charlemaine when the Aungell brought him the prepuis of our Lorde when he was circumsised, and after King Charles brought it to Acon[7] into our Ladies Chapell. [Illustration] [Footnote 1: Other editions say 160 paces.] [Footnote 2: Lead.] [Footnote 3: Such unclean.] [Footnote 4: Before.] [Footnote 5: Bow.] [Footnote 6: Proffer or offer.] [Footnote 7: _Pynson_ and others say Paris.] CAP. XXIII. _Yet of the temple of God._