the breadth five and twenty cubits] Betwixt the two chambers that stood joyning to the wall, and butted out just as farre toward the Court as the second threshold did, he measured, laying this measure over the gate over that second threshold, and the space betweene chamber and chamber, was five and twenty cubits. This space was taken up with these parcels. First, the breadth of the gate or threshold was ten cubits. Then was there a cubit on either side to this raile or partition. The raile or partition it selfe, was halfe a cubit thick, and then the chambers within that, sixe cubits on either side: and at the very same distance one over against another, stood the other foure chambers, two on either side the way, that stood further into the Court. And now let the Reader in his thoughts march up from the entring of the gate as farre as the chambers stand towards the house. First, he steppeth from without the wall, into the first threshold or entry of the gate, which is just as broad over as the wall is thick, namely, one reed, and tenne cubits the other way from side to side. Then steppeth he a step higher into the other threshold which lay within the wall, and was of the same length and breadth with the former, and was covered over with some covering, as was the other. Having paced over this, he entreth into the porch which stood joyning to this threshold as a crosse building, and was of the same length and breadth that it was, save that on either hand, the wall was broken into a Cloister of a cubit broad, the farthest or outmost side of which was posts to support it. Being passed through the porch he cometh into a broad way of twelve yards broad railed in on either side: This raile ran behind the porch and the second threshold, a cubit or a yard from them, and so gave a passage betwixt it and them of that space: and sixe yards within the railes on either side stood the chambers facing each other doore against doore. And thus they stood in correspondence to the threshold porch and way beyond them: the threshold was mated with a chamber on either side of it, and it betweene them, and they stood into the Court an equall space of sixe yards and an halfe. Then was there a space of five yards broad, answering to five yards of the porch, and opened just over against so much of it; and this space betweene the chamber next the wall, and the chamber next beyond it toward the Court, was cloistered or set upon posts, and was a passage betweene chamber and chamber to goe into the Court or open place that was behinde these buildings on either side. Beyond this cloister or opening space, was another chamber on either side, the East ends of them for a yard and an hlfe corresponding, or standing just opposite to a yard and an halfe of the West end of the porch, or so much of the porch standing betweene so much of them: and the other five yards space of them shewing each to other, at five and twenty cubits distance, and the way to the Temple railed in betweene. Beyond this chamber was another cloister, or cloisterlike passage, and beyond that cloister another chamber of the same proportion, and of the same posture with those before; save that no building or piece of building stood, but onely an open place lay between them as they stood facing one another on either side that open way. And thus have you from the wall, or from the East-gate in it, the chambers and the cloisters betweene reaching thirty yards within an halfe up toward the house, or the inner Court.