BY THE GUARDIANS OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE, AT JERUSALEM,

AS A TESTIMONIAL

Of his PILGRIMAGE in the HOLY LAND, &c.

The Original bears the Seal of St. Salvador, together with the Signature of the President, and of the Secretary.

"F. PRUDENTIUS FRASCHETTI DE FLORENTIA, Ordinis Minorum Seraphici Sancti Patris nostri Francisci Alma Observantis Provinciæ Tuscia Lector, Prædicator, et Aggregatus; Sacra Congregationi de Propagandâ Fide Responsalis; Missionum Ægypti; et Cypri Præfectus; in Partibus Orientis Commissarius Apostolicus; Sacri Montis Sion, et Sanctissimi Sepulchri Domini nostri Jesu Christi Præses, Custos, et Visitator totius Terræ Sanctæ; et humilis in Domino Servus :

"NOVERITIS, qualiter illustrissimus Dominus EDVARDUS DANIEL CLARKE, Armiger, Artium Magister, Collegii Jesu Cantabrigiensis Socius, devotionis gratiâ suscepit peregrinationem ad Sancta Loca, anno 1801, et die 9 mensis Julii, Ierosolymam appulit: inde, subsequentibus diebus, præcipua Sanctuaria, in quibus Mundi Salvator suum populum dilectum, imò et totius humani generis massam damnatam, a miserabili Dæmonum potestate misericorditer salvavit; utpotè Calvarium, ubi cruci affixus, devictâ morte, cœli januas nobis aperuit; Sepulchrum, ubi sacrosanctum ejus corpus reconditum triduo ante suam gloriosissimam resurrectionem quievit; Montem Sion, ubi cum Discipulis ultimam fecit cœnam; Hortum Getsemani; Montem Oliveti, ubi, videntibus Discipulis, ad cœlos ascendit Dominus, suorum pedum vestigia

in

in æternam reliquens memoriam ; cæteraque alia in et extra Ierosolymam constituta. Item et Bethlehem, ubi idem Salvator Mundi de Virgine Mariâ nasci non est sanè dedignatus; et quæ circa Bethlehem, et in viâ Bethlehemiticâ, conspiciuntur. Insuper et quæ in Galilæá similiter continentur; nimirum domum Nazareth, ubi beata Virgo ab Angelo salutata, meruit Filium Dei concipere incarnatum; Mare Tyberiadis, cujus mentio sæpè fit in Sacris Evangelii paginis, propter assiduam Christi Domini consuetudinem; civitatem Cana Galileæ, ubi primum miraculum fecit Dominus; aliaque omnia loca, quæ in universâ Judæâ, et Galilæâ continentur, gressibus Domini, ac beatissimæ ejus Matris consecrata, et a peregrinis visitari solita, visitavit ;in quorum omnium, et singulorum fidem, has manu nostrâ subscriptas, et Sigillo majori Officii nostri munitas expediri mandavimus. Datum ex hoc nostro Conventu Sancti Salvatoris Civitatis Jerusalem, Die 12 Mens. Julii, An. 1801.

(Signed)

"FR. PRUDENTIUS FRASChetti,

DE FLORENTIA, PRÆSES ET
CUSTOS TOTIUS TERRÆ SANCTA."

"DE MANDATO PRUDENTIE SUE REVERENDISSIME,

F. DARIUS, DE GRÆCIO,

SECRETARIUS TERRE SANCTE."

No. VI.

TEMPERATURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE,

ACCORDING TO

DIURNAL OBSERVATION;

With a CORRESPONDING STATEMENT of TEMPERATURE in ENGLAND

DURING THE SAME PERIOD,

As extracted from the Register kept in the Apartments of the ROYAL SOCIETY of LONDON, by Order of the President and Council.

N. B. The Observations during the Journey were always made at Noon: those of the Royal Society at Two P. M; and both on the Scale of Fahrenheit.