Sanderson of course visited the chief Christian holy place of the city, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, though he did not much care for either the conditions or the outcome:

In the church [of the Holy Sepulcher], whose distance is twenty or twenty-five paces, are divers altars or divers sorts of Christians. But first I noted in the church door two great holes at which is daily given in the victuals to all sorts of religious persons which keep continually in the said church; for the Turks never open the door except for some pilgrims who first pay the cadie [qadi], who is the chief justice, the Great Turk's due: upon every one under the pope's banner, which they call Franks, nine sequins in gold, and Greeks under the patriarch four and a half, with other Christians alike, [or] some less…

I had paid these nine sequins and had by the Turks the church door opened for me, was within and entering the sepulcher, when the Roman Friars and others fell in an uproar, saying that I was a Jew. The Turks bade me go in in despite of them, but the babble was so terrible that I returned to the cadie with the friars. The padre guardiano sent his dragoman and accused me to be a Jew because I came in the company of Jews. Divers Turks followed to hear the matter. One old Turk came and earnestly exhorted me to become a Musselman in the presence of the cadie. I gave him the hearing, and told him that I was a Christian and no Jew. Then he said, in the hearing of all the Jews, Turks, and Christians "Let him be searched." But the cadie before whom we were, being a very discreet man, did reprove the Turk and also the dragoman and the Friars, my accusers, and so did dismiss me. But, as I was afterwards told, it cost my adversaries above two hundred sequins. I spent not past some twenty in that matter. (Sanderson 1931: 107)

From F.E. Peters, Jerusalem. p. 514