Scripsit ergo de loco Dominicae nativitatis in hunc modum: Bethleem, civitas David, in dorso sita est angusto ex omni parte vallibus circumdato, ab occidente in orientem mille passibus longa, humili sine turribus muro per extrema plani verticis instructo; in cuius orientali angulo quasi quoddam naturale semiantrum est, cuius exterior pars nativitatis Dominicae fuisse dicitur locus; interior Praesepe Domini nominatur.
Of the place then of the Lords nativity he wrote in this sort: Bethlehem the city of David, situated in a narrow ridge compassed with valleys of every side, is a mile in length from the west to the east, having a low wall without towers built along the edge of the flat top; in the east corner whereof there is as it were a half-cave framed of nature, the outer part of which is said to have been the place of the Lords nativity; the inner is named the Lords Manger.
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