fayre, and a greate place, and in this place dwell knightes y^t are called Templars and that was the founder thereof and of theyr order and in that Templum Domini dwell Chanons. From this Temple towarde the East xxvi[23] paces in a corner of the citie, is the bathe of our Lorde, and (_in_) thys bath was wont to go[24] to Paradise & beside is our Ladies bed and nere there is the tombe of Saynt Symeon. And without the Cloyster of the Temple towarde the North is a ryght fayre Churche of Sainct Anne our Ladies mother, & there was our ladye conceyved, and before that churche is a great tree that began to grow that same nighte. And as men go downe from y^t Church xxii greces lieth Joachim our ladyes father, in a tombe of stone and there nere was layde sometyme sainct Anne, but saint Eleyne did translate hir to Constantinople. In this churche is a well in maner of a cesterne that is called _Probatica piscina_ that hath five entrings, and in that cesterne was wont an Aungell to discende and sterre the water, and what man that bathed him firste therein after the morning,[25] was made hole that was sicke, what sycknesse so euer he had, and there was the man of the palsye made hole, that was sicke xxxviii yeare and our Lorde sayde to him in this maner of wyse _Tolle grabatum tuum et ambula_. That is to say, take thy bed and go. And there besyde, was the house of Pylate and a little thence was the house of Kinge Herode that dyd slea the Innocentes. [Footnote 1: Since then.] [Footnote 2: For even if he were not baptised.] [Footnote 3: Ælia.] [Footnote 4: Know.] [Footnote 5: Put off.] [Footnote 6: Armour.] [Footnote 7: Unbelieving.] [Footnote 8: Other editions say, respectively, 64, 120, and 14.] [Footnote 9: As Footnote 8.] [Footnote 10: As Footnote 8.] [Footnote 11: According to their dignity, &c.] [Footnote 12: Finely ornamented.] [Footnote 13: Bethel.] [Footnote 14: Divided.] [Footnote 15: Other editions say 2.] [Footnote 16: Knew.] [Footnote 17: Rift or cleft.] [Footnote 18: Psalter.] [Footnote 19: Slay.] [Footnote 20: Bequeathed.] [Footnote 21: Pigeons and turtle doves.] [Footnote 22: School.] [Footnote 23: Other editions say 120.] [Footnote 24: Others say, "wont to come water _from_ Paradise."] [Footnote 25: _Pynson_ has it "moving."] [Decoration] CAP. XXIIII. _Of Herod the King._