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A10231	Purchas his pilgrimage. Or Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Floud ... The fourth edition, much enlarged with additions, and illustrated with mappes through the whole worke; and three whole treatises annexed, one of Russia and other northeasterne regions by Sr. Ierome Horsey; the second of the Gulfe of Bengala by Master William Methold; the third of the Saracenicall empire, translated out of Arabike by T. Erpenius. By Samuel Purchas, parson of St. Martins by Ludgate, London.	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.; Makīn, Jirjis ibn al-ʻAmīd, 1205-1273. Taŕikh al-Muslimin. English.; Methold, William, 1590-1653.; Horsey, Jerome, Sir, d. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 20508.5; ESTC S111832	2,067,390	1,140

knowne and honourably entertayned I had now gotten foure or fiue Seruants Dutch and English The Burgomasters sent mee a Present of Fish Flesh and Wines taking notice of the fauours I had done to them and theirs diuers came with thankfull acknowledgement of their Redemption by my meanes and Purse from Moscouite and Tartarian Captiuity and presented me with a Boll couer guilt in it Ricks Dollers and Hungarian Duckets which Coyne I returned againe They brought mee their Towne Booke and prayed mee to write my Name and place of Birth and abode that they and their Posteritie might honour my Name in Record for euer At Hamburgh likewise they for like cause presented me their thankes and Present and the Burgomasters feasted me I landed at Harwich opened my Aquauitae Bottle which had beene girt close vnder my Caffocke by day and my best Pillow by night and tooke thence the Emperours Letters which I sweetned aswell as I could But yet the Queene smelt the Aquauitae-sauour I had accesse three or foure seuerall times and some discourse by meanes of my Lord Treasurer Sir Francis Walsingham and some honourable countenance of my Lord of Leister by Sir Edward Horsey my Kinsman his meanes I was well entertayned by the Muscouie Company to whom the Queene had giuen command to prepare those things for which the Emperour had giuen directions With which and her Maiesties Letters gracious fauour sworne her Seruant Esquire of the Body giuing me her Picture Hand to kisse I departed in company of twelue tall Ships Wee met with the King of Denmarke his Fleet of Shippes and Gallies neere the North Cape fought with them and put them to the worst and after arriued at S. Nicolas I posted ouer Vaga and came to Slobida Alexandrisca where I deliuered the Queenes Letters to the Emperour with her pleasure by word of mouth short of his expectation He commanded my silence commended my speed and businesse done for him gaue me allowanances and promised his goodnesse for recompence of my seruice He commanded also that those Commodities should be brought vp to the Musco and receiued into his Treasury viz. Copper Lead Powder Salt-peeter Brimstone c. to the value of 9000. pounds and ready mony payd for them He came to the Citie of Musco and cast his displeasure vpon some Grandes hee sent a Parasite of his with 200. Gunners to rob his Brother in Law Mekita Romanowich our next Neighbour which tooke from him all his Armour Horses Plate Mony Lands and Goods to the value of 100000. Marks sterling He sent the next day to the English House for as much course Cotton as would make himselfe and his children Gownes to couer them The Emperour sent likewise Simon Nagoy another of his Instruments to squeeze or spunge Andrew Shalkan a great bribing Officer who brought his faire young Wife Solumaneda out of her Chamber defiled her cut and gashed her naked backe with his Cemitar killed his trusty Seruant Iuan Lottish tooke all his Horses Goods and Lands and beat out of his shinnes 10000. Robles or Markes sterling in mony At that time did the Emperour also conceiue displeasure against the Dutchmen and Liuonians before mentioned to whom a Church and libertie of Religion had beene giuen by my meanes and appointed certaine Captaines with 2000. Gunners in the night to take the spoile of all they had who stripped them naked rauished and defloured the women and virgins carrying away diuers of the youngest and fairest to serue their lusts Some escaping came to the English house where they were cloathed and relieued not without danger of displeasure amongst whom was that daughter of the Gouernour of Osell in Liefland commended to my fauour whose freedome I also afterwards procured and conueyed her to her father His crueltie grew now ripe for vengeance and hee not long after falling out with his eldest Sonne for his commiseration to those distressed Christians and for greeuing at his Vnkles wrongs iealous also of the peoples affection to him gaue him a boxe on the eare as it was tearmed which he tooke so tenderly that hee fell into a burning Feuer and in three dayes departed this life Whereat the Emperour tore his haire and beard like a mad man lamenting too late for that irrecouerable losse not to himselfe so much as to the Empire whose hopes were buried with him being a wise milde and worthy Prince of three and twenty yeeres Hee was buried in Michala Archangell Church in the Musco with Iewels and Riches put in his Tombe valued at 50000. pounds watched after by twelue Citizens in course euery night deuoted to his Saint Iohn and Michael to keepe both body and Treasure till his Resurrection Now was the Emperour more earnest to send into England about his long conceited match his second Sonne being weake of wit and body without hope of ability for gouernment and the third not only young but disallowed in Sanctitie and according to the fundamentall Lawes illegitimate borne out of Wedlocke of the fift vnlawfull Wife not solemnised with the Rites of their Church but in the Church-yard by a depriued and excommunicated Prelate in which respect neyther she nor her Issue were capeable of the Crowne The Emperour peruseth the Queenes last Letters and addresseth one of his trustiest Seruants in Embassage Theodore Pissempskeie a wise Nobleman about the Lady Mary Hastings aforesaid and that her Maiesty would bee pleased to send some Noble Embassadour to treate with him therein This Embassadour tooke shipping at Saint Nicolas and arriuing in England was magnificently entertayned and admitted audience Her Maiesty caused that Lady to bee attended with diuers Ladies and young Noblemen that so the Embassadour might haue a sight of her which was accomplished in Yorke House Garden There was he attended also with diuers men of quality brought before her and casting downe his countenance fell prostrate before her and rising ranne backe with his face still towards her The Lady with the rest admiring at this strange salutation hee sayd by an Interpreter it sufficed him to behold the Angelicall presence of her which hee hoped should bee his Masters Spouse and Empresse seeming rauished with her Angelicall countenance state and beauty Shee was after that by her familiar friends in Court called Empresse of Mosconia Sir William Russell third Sonne to the Earle of Bedford a wise and comely Gentleman was appointed her Maiesties Ambassadour to the Moscoune but hee and his Friends considering of the businesse and not so forward thereto the Company of Merchants intreated for Sir Ierome Bowes mooued theretowith his presence and tall person He was well set forth most at their charge and with the Russian Embassadour arriued at S. Nicolas The Emperours Ambassadour posted ouer land and deliuered his Letters with the accounts of his Embassage which was ioyfully accepted Sir I. B. passed slowly vp the Dwina 1000. miles to Vologda The Emperour sends a Pensioner Michael Preterpopoue

where in the beginning of these tumults hee had beene put who first feared death and the next thing was hee begged water whom they presently proclaimed Emperour Osman consulted with Huzein Bassa late Vizier in the Polish warre and the Aga of the Ianizaries both faithfull to him sent to haue strangled Mustapha in the Seraglio but a new vproare happened and hee was remoued and guarded The next day the King with the Mufti went to them where after much intreatie their hearts somewhat relenting yet with new furie possessed they slew Huzein Bassa and the Aga the Mufti was conueyed away secretly and Osman led to Mustapha pleads for his life and at last is cast into the Seuen Towers prisoner Daout Bassa the new Vizier enquires and findes that Osman had two brothers liuing one about twelue the other seuen yeeres old and thereupon goes to the prison with a packe of executioners which finde him new falne asleepe and by their intrusion awaked and discontent At first they are amazed and hee made shew to defend himselfe till a strong knaue strooke him on the head with a battle axe and the rest leaping on him strangled him with much adoe And soone after they mourned for their dead King as freshly as they had raged vnseasonably this being the first Emperour they had betrayed and hauing set vp one which in all likelihood they must change for disabilitie The first of Iune following the Capiaga had receiued secret order to strangle Osmans brethren which going to doe they cry out and he by the Pages was slaine The Ianizaries mutinie afresh and will haue account of this treason whereof the King denies knowledge so did Daout who was suspected but to please them is degraded and Huzein Bassa late Gouernour of Cairo put in his place There is later report of the said Daout to bee strangled in the same place where hee had caused Osman to die Neither can wee expect otherwise then monstrous and portentuous births after such viperean conceptions CHAP. X. Of the Opinions holden by the Turkes in their Religion and of their Manners and Customes HOw the Turkes from so small beginnings haue aspired to this their present greatnesse you haue seene bought indeed at a deare price with their temporall Dominions accepting of a spirituall bondage becomming the Lords of many Countries and withall made subiect to those many Mahumetan superstitions The occasion and chiefe cause of Sects in the Saracenicall deuotions yee haue heard in the fourth and seuenth Chapters to which wee may adde here out of Bellonius He saith that besides the Alcoran they haue another booke called Zuna that is the Way or Law or Councell of Mahomet written after his death by his disciples but the readings thereof being diuers and corrupt the Caliph assembled a generall Councell of their Alphachi or learned men at Damasco wherein six Commissioners were appointed namely Muszlin Bochari Buborayra Annecey Atermindi and Dent to view and examine these bookes each of which composed a booke and those six bookes were called Zuna the other copies being two hundred Camels-lading were drowned in the Riuer those six onely made authenticall esteemed of equall authoritie among the Turkes with the Alcoran and after by one of their Diuines contracted into an Epitome which booke was called the Booke of Flowers But this Zuna being not Vna one as the Truth is but full of contrarietie hence haue risen Sects amongst them the Turkes differing from other Mahumetan Nations and diuided also amongst themselues §. I. Of their Eight Commandements ANTHONY MENAVINVS who liued a long time in the Turkish Court saith that the Booke of their Law is called Musaph or Curaam which Georgiouitz reckoneth another booke not the Alcoran it is in Arabike and they hold vnlawfull to translate it into the vulgar If any like not of Georgiouitz his opinion but thinke it to be the Alcoran for al is but the Article and the name little differs as before is shewed I could thinke it likely that this containeth some Extracts and Glosses thereof or is to their Alcaron as our Seruice booke to our Bible hauing some sons and proper methodes but grounded on the other Some things I finde cited out of the Curaam that are not in the Alcoran as that of the Angels mortalitie which perhaps may bee the mistaking of the Interpreter The ignorance of the Arabike hath caused much mis-calling of words and names They haue it in such reuerence that they will not touch it except they be washed from top to toe and it is read in their Churches by one with a loud voyce the people giuing deuout attendance without any noyse nor may the Reader hold it beneath his girdlested and after he hath read it he kisseth it and toucheth his eyes with it and with great solemnitie it is carried into the due place Out of this booke are deriued eight principall Commandements of their Law The first is GOD is a great God and one onely God and MAHOMET is the Prophet of God this Article of the Vnitie they thinke maketh against vs who beleeue a Trinitie of Persons in detestation whereof they often reiterate these words Hu hu hu that is He he he is onely GOD who is worthy to be praised for their limbes health c. and for that he hath prouided sustenance for euery one fortie yeeres before his birth The second Commandement is Obey thy Parents and doe nothing to displease them in word or deed they much feare the curses of their parents 3. Doe vnto others as thou wouldest bee done vnto 4. That they repaire to the Meschit or Church at the times appointed of which after 5. To fast one moneth of the yeere called Romezan or Ramadan 6. That they giue almes to the poore liberally and freely 7. To marry at conuenient age that they may multiply the sect of Mahomet 8. Not to kill Of these Commandements is handled at large in Menauino and in the booke of the Policie of the Turkish Empire and in others Their times of prayer according to the fourth precept are in the morning called Salanamazzi before Sun-rising the second at noone called Vlenamazzi The third about three houres before Sun-set called Inchindinamazzi The fourth at Sun-set Ascannamazzi The fifth two houres within night before they goe to sleepe Master Sandys nameth seuen times of prayer enioyned daily the first Tingilnamas two houres before day not mentioned by Septemcastrensis and another Giumanamas at ten in the morning duely obserued on the Fridayes by all at other times by the more religious When the Priest calls to prayer they will spread their garments on the earth though they bee in the fields and fall to their deuotions Moreouer I haue seene them conioyntly pray in the corners of the streets before the opening of their shops in the morning They spend but a part of Friday their Sabbath in deuotion and the rest in recreations but that so rigorously that a Turke

And as the bodie of Scripture was diuided into three parts the Pentateuch Hagiographa and Prophets so haue they three Thargums of Onkelos Ionathas and R. Ioseph the blind which liued about Anno Dom. 400. And as the Thalmud so the Thargum is of two Dialects the Babylonian and of Ierusalem of this the Authour is vnknowne the Babylonian was written the Pentateuch by Onkelos the Prophets by Ionathan the Hagiographa by R. Ioseph Caecus As for the Iewish Fables of a Voyce to Ionathan and of the consuming with fire from Heauen any flye that should disturbe him in his writing his super-excellence among the most excellently learned Schollers of Hillel c and of their many other supposed Thargums with other Rabbinicall workes testifying truly of Christ collected and related by Galatinus and others I forbeare further recitall I might heere amongst their Doctorall Titles reckon the Archiperecitae mentioned by Iustinian a stile giuen to such as were skilfull either in times or rather in the Thalmud as chiefe Masters and Archrabbines Of their Sanhedrin is alreadie spoken The name is if wee receiue Serarius borrowed of the Greekes with whom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies Senators These may well be reckoned amongst their learned men Bahal Midrasch is the Author of a Commentary or a Preacher as Darsan also But I haue too long examined Titles If in the next place we obserue the power of the Rabbines they were had in great reuerence and respect they sate in loftie and stately seates had power to create others Masters and Doctors to weare Rings and Hoods and enioyed other Priuiledges differing according to the times places and differing Estates of the Iewes vnder diuers Lords For as we haue obserued in this Countrey of England so in other Countries their power was lesse or more after the will of their Lord in Babylonia Egypt and Spaine somewhat in some places nothing In Iustinians time they challenged power of Excommunication which the Emperour forbad vnder paine of bodily punishments and losse of all their goods The like Ecclesiasticall censure was lately sought by the Iewes of Frankford examined by the Emperours Commissioners at Mentz Now for the Rites of creating the R. in this Doctorall or Rabbinicall Degree First there was some tryall of his worth So Lampridius testifieth of the Emperour Alexander that hee nominated those which were to be sent to gouerne the Prouinces and to will such as could say ought against them to make good proofe thereof or else as Slanderers to lose their heads alleaging that if the Iewes and Christians made such tryals of the Priests it was necessary in these to whom the liues and goods of men were to bee committed By the Iewish Priests wee vnderstand the RR. as the chiefe of them at Wormes is by the vulgar called Iuden Bischoff receiuing some Iurisdiction vnder the Bishop Next after this tryall followed Imposition of hands called by them Semicah which was done by some Rabbine whom they stiled Somech neither before this Imposition might any rightly be termed Rab Rabbi Rabban or Gaon This Rite is ancient Moses hauing vsed it to Ioshua and the Apostles and Christian Bishops still obseruing He was also placed in a Chaire which the Hebrewes call Cisse whence come those Phrases he sate in the seat of such or such a Rabbine as of R. Iose the hand being imposed he was there in Babylon made Gaon and placed in the Throne Rab Haai To this seemes to allude the sitting in Moses Chaire A fourth Rite was a set forme of words anciently these Eni somech otheca Thihieh Samuch that is I lay hand on thee be thou hee on whom hand is laid or I make thee Master bee thou a Master R. Iuda whom Adrian the Emperour slue added a fuller forme of words This Imposition was publikely done in their Schooles where their Chaire was This Imposition of hands some conceiue might not be done extra terram but onely in the Land of Israel which howsoeuer it bee true or false this is certayne that now in their Rabbinicall Creations it is omitted as the chiefe RR. of Frankford in their Epistle to other Iewes complaine and therefore they ordayne tha none in Germany bee esteemed a Morenu our Master without the Approbation of their Archrabbines which keepe an Academie in Germany None shall bee Chaber which hath receiued Imposition of Hands out of Germany None Bachur till the second Yeere after his Marriage especially if hee dwell in a place where is not an Academie that tryall may bee had of his Life and Learning These are three Degrees Morenu as a Doctor Chaber as a Licentiate Bachur as a Bachellour in the Christian Vniuersities Of the Morenu there is difference one beeing chiefe the rest vnder him and these are made of the RR. and if a Rabbine will bee a Morenu he must be examined vsually of three Morenu But to become a Rabbine needs no Examination their Masters testimonie beeing sufficient who is a Morenu or else one chosen by the Congregation to this purpose for one simple R. cannot make another The place is in the Synagogue the day commonly the Sabbath at which time and place the Morenu standing before the Arke or place where the Law is kept speaking to the Assembly saith that such and such haue now spent many yeeres profitably in studie of the Law and is thought worthy of the honour of a Rabbine or a Morenu And then cals the partie foorth by name and appoints him to reade presently to the people and then is he accounted a R. or Morenu And if he be to trauell into any place farre distant he carryeth the testimoniall of this Doctor of the Chaire or Father of the Act which conferred his degree vpon him A Chaber is the Colleague or Companion of a Rabbine but inferiour to him For as in Vniuersities there are Regents and Non-Regents so a Rabbenu or Morenu as one which actually teacheth and as it were a Regent is more then a Rab or Rabbi Scaliger saith that he was not presently after this his Commencement or Proceeding intituled Master but Chaber which had also his Relatiue annexed as R. Ismael Chaber of R. Eleazar which was the same with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 amongst the Greekes as Speusippus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Platonis and whiles hee was so called he neuer sate whiles his Master sate but was prostrate on the pauement And when they were both Masters the younger stood whiles the elder sate and taught as in the Primitiue Church the younger Bishop called the Elder Papa Serarius and he cannot agree about these points Elias sayth that the Doctorall Title of Gaon was giuen them for their perfection in the Talmud for Gaon signifieth sixtie And so many parts are there of the Misna These Wisemen in Spaine added Aben to their Titles as R. Abraham Aben Ezra his Fathers name was Meir but Aben the name of the Family As Paul and Aquila

them prisoners that one Sunne onely may shine in that Ethiopian Throne It is situate in a great Plaine largely extending it selfe euery way without other hill in the same for the space of 30. leagues the forme thereof round and circular the height such that it is a daies worke to ascend from the foot to the top round about the rock is cut so smooth and euen without any vnequall swellings that it seemeth to him that stands beneath like a high wall wheron the Heauen is as it were propped and at the top it is ouer-hanged with rocks jutting forth of the sides the space of a mile bearing out like mushromes so that it is impossible to ascend it or by ramming with earth battering with Canon scaling or otherwise to win it It is aboue 20. leagues in circuit compassed with a wall on the top well wrought that neither man nor beast in chase may fall downe The top is a plaine field onely toward the South is a rising Hil beautifying this Plaine as it were with a watch-tower not seruing alone to the eye but yeelding also a pleasant spring which passeth through all that Plaine paying his tributes to euery Garden that will exact it and making a Lake whence issueth a Riuer which hauing from these tops espied Nilus neuer leaues seeking to finde him whom he cannot leaue both to seeke and finde that by his direction and conueyance hee may together with him present himselfe before the Father and great King of waters the Sea The way vp to it is cut out within the Rooke not with staires but ascending by little and little that one may ride vp with ease it hath also holes cut to let in light and at the foote of this ascending place a faire gate with a Corpus du Guarde Halfe way vp is a faire and spacious Hall cut out of the same Rocke with three windowes very large vpwards the ascent is about the length of a lance and a halfe and at the top is a gate with another guard The aire aboue is wholesome and delectable and they liue there very long and without sicknesse There are no Cities on the top but palaces standing by themselues in number foure and thirtie spacious sumptuous and beautifull where the Princes of the Royall bloud haue their abode with their Families The Souldiers that guard the place dwell in Tents There are two Temples built before the raigne of the Queene of Saba one in honour of the Sunne the other of the Moone the most magnificent in all Ethiopia which by Caudace when shee was conuerted to the Christian faith were consecrated in the name of the Holy Ghost and of the Crosse At that time they tell Caudace ascending with the Eunuch whose proper name was Iudica to baptize all of the Royall bloud which were there kept Zacharie the eldest of them was in his baptisme named Philip in remembrance of Philips conuerting the Eunuch which caused all the Emperours to be called by that name till Iohn the Saint who would be called Iohn because he was crowned on Saint Iohns day and while they were busie in that holy worke of baptizing the Princes a Doue in fierie forme came flying with beames of light and lighted on the highest Temple dedicated to the Sunne whereupon it was afterwards consecrated to the Holy Ghost by Saint Matthew the Apostle when he preached in Ethiopia Those two Temples were after that giuen to the Monasticall Knights of the Militarie Order of Saint Anthonie by Philip the seuenth with two great and spacious Couents built for them I should lose both you and my selfe if I should leade you into their sweet flourishing and fruitfull gardens whereof there are store in this Plaine curiously made and plentifully furnished with fruits both of Europe plants there as Peares Pippins and such like and of their owne as Oranges Citrons Limons and the rest Cedars Palme-trees with other Trees and varietie of herbes and flowers to satisfie the sight taste and sent But I would entertayne you onely with rarities no where else to be found and such is the Cubayo tree pleasant beyond all comparison in taste and whereunto for the vertue is imputed the health and long life of the Inhabitants and the Balme tree whereof there is great store here and hence it is thought the Queene of Saba carried and gaue to Salomon who planted them in Iudaea from whence they were transplanted at Cairo long after The plentie of Graines and Corne there growing the charmes of birds alluring the eares with their warbling Notes and fixing the eyes on their colours ioyntly agreeing in beautie by their disagreeing varietie and other Creatures that adorne this Paradise might make me glut you as sweet meates vsually doe with too much store Let vs herefore take view of some other things worthy our admiration in this admired Hill taking the Friar for our guide whose credit I leaue to your censure §. II. His liberall reports of the Librarie and incredible treasures therein SVch is the stately building of the two Churches aforesaid with their Monasteries the pillars and roofes of stone richly and cunningly wrought the matter and the workmanship conspiring magnificence that of Iasper Alabaster Marble Porphetie this with painting gilding and much curiositie the two Monasteries contayning each of them 1500. religious Knights and Monkes each hauing also two Abbots one of the militarie Knights the other spirituall of the Monkes inferior to the former In the Monasterie of the Holy Crosse are two rare peeces whereon Wonder may iustly fasten both her eyes the Treasurie and Librarie of the Emperor neither of which is thought to be marchable in the world That Librarie of Constantinople wherein were 120000. bookes nor that at Pergamus of 200000. nor the Alexandrian Librarie wherein Gellius numbreth 700000. had the fire not beene admitted too hastie a Student to consume them yet had they come short if report ouer-reach not of this whereof wee speake their number is in a manner innumerable their price inestimable The Queene of Saba they say procured bookes hither from all parts besides many which Salomon gaue her and from that time to this their Emperors haue succeeded in like care and diligence There are three great Halls each aboue two hundred paces large with bookes of all Sciences written in fine parchment with much curiositie of golden Letters and other workes and cost in the writing binding and couers some on the floore some on shelues about the sides there are few of paper which is but a new thing in Ethiopia There are the writings of Enoch copied out of the stones wherein they were engrauen which entreat of Philosophy of the Heauens and Elements Others go vnder the name of Noe the subiect whereof is Cosmography Mathematikes Ceremonies and Prayers some of Abraham which he composed when he dwelt in the Valley of Mamre and there read publikely Philosophy and the Mathematikes There is very much of Salomon a great number passing

triall of their fidelities which vrgent necessitie of the time exacted the soules of their Patrons and Donors Saints and Wonderworkers for redemption of their sinnes and soules command and they must prepare their best thoughts without sophisticall refusals Vpon these Rhetoricall threats at the Prouinciall Conuocation called in the great Consistory of the Holy Ghost the Oath of Souereigntie was ministred in the Citie of Mosco Some feare there was that he did ayme at all After many disputes and allegations which appeare in the Originall prepared for the Kings audience hee hauing intelligence by priuy Spyes from their Register framed delayes of audience meane whiles thundering threats to be carried by his Instigators to their eares He cals forty of the most pragmaticall tels them hee vnderstands of their consultations and that they were the principall whom his mild Relation of his disaduentures and the peoples miseries had not mollified What shall we render you for reward the Nobilitie and people cry out that you haue got all the treasure in the Land by trading in all kind of Merchandises taking the benefit of all other mens trauels being priuiledged to pay no Custome to our Crowne nor charge of warres and by terrifying the best sort of our Subiects You haue gotten by due computation the third part of the Townes Royalties and Villages of this Kingdome into your Possessions by your Witchery Inchantments and Sorcery You buy and sell the soules of our people you liue a most idle life in all pleasure and delicacie commit most horrible sinnes Extortion Briberie and excessiue Vsurie You abound in all the bloudie and crying sinnes Oppression Gluttony Idlenesse Sodomitry and worse if worse may be with beasts We haue much to answere before God to suffer you to liue and so many more worthy to die for you God forgiue my taking part with you Did not the Pope of late by his Nuncio earnestly perswade to haue the Supremacie ouer you and to dispose of all your Places and Reuenues Hath not the Greeke Church often sollicited vs for the change of your Metropolitan Sea by mediation of the Patriarke of Alexandria Yea and often I haue beene moued for your dissolution to the reparation of thousands of my ancientest and poorest Nobility from whose Ancestors most of your Reuenues came and to whom it most iustly belongs that haue spent their liuings and liues for your safeties and enrichings and my rich Subiects are impouerished thorow your rapine and deuillish Illusions A faire Example wee haue of that valorous King of England Henry the Eighth your Reuenues being much more besides your standing treasure then your prodigall and luxurious maintennence can expend By which meanes our Nobilitie and seruiceable Subiects are decayed and our treasure so exhausted that we are inforced by the secret inspiration by the Soules and holy Saints the holy workers of Wonders from whom you professe to hold that infinite treasure not yours that lies as a dead talent in your custodies put to no Religious vse In their names and all the Donors and Benefactors we coniure and command that by such a day lest you be all then through the plague of Gods iust wrath deuoured by wild beasts of the Forrest who attend the execution of your iudgement with a more sudden and fearefull death then befell the falshood of Ananias and Saphyras deniall you bring vs a faithfull and true Inuentorie what treasure and yeerely Reuenues euery of your Houses haue in possession Necessitie will not permit delay nor excuse for the contrary By that time we intend to call a Parliament Royall to be Iudges of our vrgent necessitie for defence of our Realme against the Kings and Princes of Poland Swethia Lituania and Denmarke all combined and our Rebels confederated with the Crimme and to bee witnesses also of the discharge of our dutie to God and his Angels to incite you in their name and his poore distressed people for whose necessities and preseruation of you all we are thus earnest their so miserable estates lying yet in your hands and power in time to remedie and sustaine The chiefe of the Clergy often assembled and dissembled deuising with the discontented Nobility to make warre and resist But they wanted sufficient Commanders and were otherwise vnprouided of Armes Hereof the Emperour tooke aduantage and proclaymed the heads of those Houses to be Traytors endites twenty of the principall and chargeth them with Treasons and other odious crimes hauing fitted pregnant proofes to manifest the same to be true He commands his great wild Beares to be brought out of their darke Caues kept of purpose for such pastimes at Slobida Velica Vpon Saint Izaies day in a spacious place walled about seuen of the principall fat bellied Fryers were brought forth one after another each with his Crosse and Beads in one hand and through the Emperours great fauour a Bore-speare of fiue foot in length in the other hand for his defence A wilde Beare was let loose which ranging against the wall sented the Fryer and made more mad with the peoples shouting and cry runnes at him fiercely and crusheth his head body bowels legs and armes as a Cat doth a Mouse and hauing thus deuoured or torne the Fryer was shot and killed by the Gunners Then was another Fryer and a fresh Beare in like sort committed and likewise serued and so the rest of which only the last had so much skill and agility that setting the end of his Speare in the ground and guiding it to the breast of the Beare he ranne himselfe thorow on it and both dyed in the place This Fryer was canonized for a valiant Saint by the rest of his liuing Brethren of Michalla Swett in Susdal Seuen other Fryers were condemned to be buryed aliue Hereupon the Metropolites Bishops Monkes and Fryers of all Houses resorted with Petitions and Prostrations to pacifie the Emperour not only suffering his Ghostly Father to absolue him but acknowledging the others to haue suffered iustly hoping that it would be example to all which professed holy Orders They all their Treasurers and Heads of all the chiefe Monasteries and Nunneries did in the name of themselues and the soules of their holy founders present a true and perfect Inuentory of all their Treasure Moneyes Townes Lands and Reuenewes particularly belonging to any Saint which commended the same to their trust and custodies successiuely for the euerlasting mayntenance of those holy Seminaries and Sanctuaries hoping and assuredly beleeuing that his sacred Soule in commemoration of all others will not suffer any violation in his age which must passe away with accounts before the Trinity of things in all Ages done if otherwise that it would please him to giue them some authenticall discharge to remayne to Posteritie I haue with my best skill translated thus much verbatim out of the Originall These Inchantments preuented their dissolution but preuayled not against the Emperours resolute demand of 300000. Markes sterling brought speedily in Coyne

eare to his safety doubting of some trechery much perplexed with feare as were the Gentlemen with him I procured the Lord Protector to send his Letters after him to the Queene a Tunber of Sables a gift from himselfe When he came to Saint Nicolas aboard the Ship he vsed intemperate words to the Gentleman that conducted him for him to telle be Emperour and his Counsell cut his Letters and Sables in pieces c. The Nobility hearing hereof after he was gone laid much blame on me especially the Shalkans Now was the Gouernment much altered hauing put on a new face Iustice administred and euery man liuing in peace Mans capacitie cannot comprehend how the infinite treasure which the former Emperour left behind him could be gotten together and much lesse how it should be so soone consumed and this Kingdome Princes and people so ruined His standing Reuenewes and my Collections out of their owne Records in my Description of the Russe Common-wealth may bee worth reading The traffique attracting many Nations Persians Armenians Turkes Italians Germanes French Dutch English Polonians which bring store of Gold and Siluer Coyne Precious Stones Iewels and Pearles which are taken into his Treasury for the Commodities of that Countrey by him taken from his Subiects to serue his turne at easie rates leauing them their traffique besides for Cloth Silkes Veluets Ounce-gold Tissue Cloth of Gold and Siluer Wines Fruits Spices Sugar Copper Lead Tinne Paper Indico Brasill Calicoes c. which that Countrey most needs This course of traffique and treasure with the surplusage of his Reuenues amounting yeerely vnto 1300000. Markes sterling besides all charges for his house and ordinary Salaries of his Souldiers This hath he continued to lay vp neere sixty yeeres besides the great treasures left him by his Predecessors neuer exhausted nor diminished My selfe haue seene many thousand bags rotten of old Siluer and Gold Coyne and Plate in great barred Chests piled vp in many Vaults Sellers and Stone Houses and many trustie Merchants continually weighing numbring and new bagging vp the same so that I am confident hauing conuersed much and many yeeres with those Nations that all the Kings in Christendome haue not like Riches and quantity of treasure Now to adde some thing of his Acts Conquests and conditions Hee conquered Casan Astracan the Nagaies and Chorcas Tartars and many others of that kind inhabiting aboue two thousand mules on both sides the Volga Southward to the Caspian Sea He freed himselfe from Tartacian homage Hee conquered Pollotzka Smolensca and many Townes and Castles seuen hundred miles Southwest from Mosco into the Countries of Bela Russia Lituania c. belonging to the Crowne of Poland as much and as many Townes and Castles Eastward in Linonia and the parts belonging to Swethan and Poland the Kingdome of Siberia also bringing away the King whom I saw in Musco and the adiacent Countries Northward 1500. miles He reduced the Ambiguities and vncertayne Rules of their Lawes and pleadings into a more perspicuous and plaine forme of a written Law for euery man to vnderstand and plead his owne cause without any Aduocate and to challenge vnder great penalty and mulct to the Crowne iudgement without delay He established and published one vniforme confession of Faith Doctrine and Discipline consonant to the three Symbols or Creeds professing the Religion of the Greeke Church deriuing their antiquitie from their Apostle Saint Andrew and their Patron Saint Nicolas and in regard of later dissentions in doctrine and Ceremony in that Church he hath acquitted the See of Musco from that Society and the Synodals and Oblations heretofore contributed to that Church the Patriarch Ieremy resigning the Patriarchship of Constantinople to the Metropolitan of Musco Hee vtterly disclaymes the doctrine of the Pope holding it the most erronious maruelling that any Christian Prince would yeeld him any Secular authoritie which hee caused his Clergie to declare to Fryer Anthonie Posseuinus the Popes Nuncio at the Church doore at Prechesta Hee hath built in his time fortie faire stone Churches richly adorned within and the Turrets all gilded with fine pure Gold without He hath built and dedicated aboue sixty Monasteries and Nunneries and endowed them with Bels Ornaments and mayntenance to pray for his Soule He built a goodly steeple of hewne stone in the inner Castle of Musco called Blanasenia Collacalitza with twenty greatsweet sounding Bels in it which serue to all the Cathedrall Churches standing about it ringing all together euery Festiuall day which are many and euery midnight Prayers One deed of his Charity I may not omit A great Famine followed the Pestilence of the better sort of people The Townes streets wayes were pestered with Rogues idle Beggers and counterfeit Cripples nor could any riddance be made of them Proclamation was made that they should resort to Slobida Alexandrisca to receiue the Emperours great almes on such a day Out of some thousands that came seuen hundred of the vilest and most counterfeit Rogues were all knocked on the head and cast into the great Lake for the fish to receiue the dole of their carkasses the rest were dispersed to Monasteries and Hospitals to be relieued He built aboue 100. Castles in his time in diuers parts of his Kingdome and planted them with Ordenance and Garisons He built 200. Townes in wast and dishabited places thorow his Kingdome to replenish those parts being a mile or two miles in length called Yams giuing euery Inhabitant a portion of Land and Money to keepe so many speedy Horses for his vse and for Posts He built a goodly strong stone Wal about the Citie of Musco and planted it with Ordenance and Garisons He was a goodly man of presence well fauoured of a high fore-head and shrill voyce a right Scythian full of readie wit and wisdome cruell and mercilesse his owne experience ruled State causes and affaires publike Hee was sumptuously entombed in Michael Archangell Church where his memory is still dreadfull though guarded day and night they which passe by or heare his name crossing and blessing themselues from his Resurrection againe The Empresse Anna fifth wife to the late Emperour with her young Sonne Chariwich Demetrius and their Family Nagais were confined to Onglets to reside in that Castle at the Emperours pleasure with Royall allowance for their mayntenance New Embassadors were chosen by Boris the Protector such as he best affected to illustrate his greatnesse to bee sent from the new Emperour to all Kings and. Princes his Allies The Coronation was first solemnized whereof I was an eye and eare witnesse as Master Hakluyts and Doctor Fletchers Discourses in this and other Relations of that State and Common-wealth procured at my hands declare My selfe was nominated to bee sent to Queene Elizabeth The substance of our Embassies was much alike to make knowne that by the Prouidence of God Feodore Iuanowich was crowned and setled in the Imperiall Throne

nothing to say to him from that Renowmed Queene of England the Myrrour of all the Queenes that euer reigned yet he did so much honour and admire her excellent vertues and graces that he would also hold me in the reputation of her Maiesties Ambassadour and that it was in his Supreame power and pleasure to allow or not allow of the King his Letters Patents for my passage thorow that great Principalitie his Inheritance and differing from the Crowne of Poland That his Subiects might thinke I negotiated with him he tooke me with him to his Church heard Diuiue Seruice Psalmes fling and a Sermon the Sacrament also was administred as in the Reformed Churches whereat his Brother Cardinall Ragauill did murmure His Highnesse inuited me to Dinner honoured with fifty Halbardiers thorow the Citie Gunners placed and fiue hundred Gentlemen his Guard to bring me to his Palace where himselfe accompanied with many young Noblemen receiued me vpon the Terras and then brought me into a very large Roome where were Organs with singing A long Table was set with Lords and Ladies Himselfe vnder a Cloth of State and I was placed before him in the middest of the Table With sound of Trumpets and Kettle Drummes the first Seruice was brought in and after Prayer sayd by his Almoner Iesters and Poets dicoursed merrily Instruments of lowd and other of lower Musicke were added twenty Dwarfes men and women attired curiously made sweet harmony with mournfull Pipes and Songs vsing also Dauids Tymbrels and Aarons Bels as they called them and danced deuidng themselues man and woman hand in hand His Highnesse dranke for the Maiestie of the Angelicall Queene of England her health illustrating her greatnesse and graces with many good words The Princes Ladies euery one with their glasses of sweet Wine pledged I did the like for his Highnesse health Then were serued in strange portraytures of Lions Vnicornes Spread Eagles Swannes c. made artificially of Sugar past gilded with Spickets in their bellies filled some with Sacke others with Rhenish or Hungarian Wines euery one thence to fill his Glasse others also had Suckets to be taken out of their bellies with their Siluer Forkes It were tedious to relate all the particulars After sixe houres spent in this Feast I was conducted to my lodging in manner as I had beene brought and afterwards had my Letters Parens and a Gentleman to conduct mee thorow his Countrey I passed by Smoleuske to Musco 1200. miles from Vilna My entertaynment at Vilna and negotiating with the King of Poland now made me suspected to the Russian Nobility The Bishop of Susdales House was appointed for my lodging where I was guarded and attended by meane Gentlemen the pretence was lest I should haue conference with the Polish Embassadour The Protector was not present when I had audience of the Emperour and after priuately sent for me professed himselfe sorry he could not bee so fauourable as in former times to me but promised that a haire of my head should not fall to the ground c. I perceiued many of my good Friends were gone and made away had warning of many Articles framed against me which against their wils being divulged I answered so as I gained reputation thereby Yet the water which was daily brought mee from the Riuer was poysoned as also my drinke Herbs and Muske Melons sent to my House my Landresse was hired likewise to poyson me which she confessed with the circumstances I had a Seruant a Lords Sonne of Danzike which brake out with Blaynes and escaped narrowly my Cooke and Butler both dyed of poyson I writ to the Lord Protector hereof but receiued no answere I must remoue to Yeraslaue till the Polish Embassadour was gone and the third night after I came to this Towne I commended my Soule to God expecting death One tapped at my gate at midnight and I with my Seruants well appointed came to enquire the cause Alphonasie Nagoy Brother to the Emperour Mother of Demetrius which were placed at Onglets fiue and twenty miles off cryed out and sayd O sweet Yereme the Charowich Demetrius is dead his throate was cut about the sixt houre by the Deaks Sonne one of his Pages confessed vpon the Racke by Boris his setting on and the Empresse poysoned and vpon point of death her haire nayles and skinne fall off helpe helpe with some good thing for the passion of God This out cry did not a little astonish me till I saw his face ouer the wall I durst not open my gates sayd I had nothing worth the sending yet gaue a little Viall of Balsam which Queene Elizabeth had giuen me as an Antidote against Poysons giuen her by Sir F. Dr. with a boxe of Venice Treacle Some three dayes before the Suburbs of Musco were set on fire and 12000. houses burned Boris his guard had the spoyle It was giuen out that Demetrius his Mother her Brother and that Family of the Nagoies had practised to kill the Emperour and Protector and to burne the whole Citie of Musco Fiue desperate Souldiers were suborned to indure the Racke and confessed there that they were the men which should doe this exploit This was published to make the name of Demetrius hatefull to the people with that whole Family The Bishop of Orutesca was sent accompanied with fiue hundred Gunnes and diuers Nobles and Gentlemen to see Demetrius buried vnder the high Altar of Saint Iohns in Ouglets in Ouglets Castle Little did Boris thinke that his Ghost should after root out him and his Family The sicke poysoned Empresse was presently shorne a Nunne all her Allies her Brother Vncles Friends and Officers dispersed in displeasure to diuers secret Dens not to haue communitie with men or see the light I was hasted away also I had Letters from Boris he could not doe as he would but time would worke me more grace as amply as euer If I wanted money or prouision hee would impart of his owne Some secrets he had committed to mee which now made a dangerous impression in his memory I arriued in England deliuered my Letters to the Queene which I found much more fauourable then I expected the Company of Merchants payd me 1845. pounds in ready money for my goods in their hands a generall release past on both sides c. I furnished Master Hakluyt and Doctor Fletcher with Intelligences c. Thus the Race of Iuan Vasiliwich which had continued aboue 300. yeeres was raced out and extinguished in bloud the Emperour soone following as I receiued by Letters from thence from my worthy friends and haue since had conference with two Embassadours and a Fryer of good intelligence Boris had made away most of the chiefe and ancient Nobility and now remooued the Emperour Theodor placed his Sister the Empresse in a Monastery causeth the Patriarches Metropolites Bishops and new sprung Nobility his Officers Merchants and other his owne creatures to petition him to take the Crowne