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 Jerusalem Artichoke.Jerusalem Delivered. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Jerusalem Chamber.
 
The Chapter-house of Westminster Abbey. Henry IV. died there, March 20, 1413.   1
       
“It hath been prophesied to me many years,
I should not die but in Jerusalem.”
       
Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV., iv. 5.
   Pope Silvester II. was told the same thing, and he died as he was saying mass in a church so called. (Bacon: Tusculum.)   2
   The Lower House of Convocation now meets in the Jerusalem Chamber. The Upper House meets at Mr. Hodgson’s, in Dean’s Yard, Westminster.   3
 


 Jerusalem Artichoke.Jerusalem Delivered. 

 
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