Excerpt from Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, Monachi Cestrensis, Vol. 3: Together With the English Translation of John Trevisa and of an Unknown Writer of the Fifteenth Century The next chapter is occupied entirely with the affairs of the kingdom of Judah and the history of the Roman kings. In addition to the Scripture narrative, there is given, from Petrus the tradition of Isaiah's martyrdom under Manasseh by being sawn asunder with a wooden saw. In Petrus the execution is said to have taken place circa, piscinas Siloe. These words, though not quoted by Higden, have led him to introduce a notice of the Hebrew tradition that the name of Siloe3 was given to the place because of the water divinely sent into the mouth of Isaiah in answer to his prayer while suffering this martyrdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.