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A65810	The rarities of Russia with the interest of England in point of trade with that country which occasioned the magnificent entertainments of the Russian ambassadours, 1. by Queen Elizabeth, anno 1589, 2. by King James, November 5, 1617, 3. by King Charles the Second, 1662, which are here described / by Will. White merchant.	White, Will. (William), merchant.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1857; ESTC R38600	16,022	28

Rubbels 2. The second Commodity is Honey whereof besides an exceeding great quantity spent in their ordinary drinks which is Mead of all sorts and other uses a good quantity is carried out of the Countrey to the neighbouring parts which have need of it God hath not given all Commodities to one to elate it with pride and none to other Countries to deject them with pensiveness but there is some kind of equallity between the profits of Countries to continue Commerce and ballance Trade in some proportion 3. The third Commodity is Wax whereof there hath been transported a millions worth abroad this Wax is the cask where Honey is the liquour and being yellow by Nature is by Art made white and green for sight the clearest for smell the sweetest for touch the cleanliest useful in Law to seal Instruments in Physick to mollifie Sinews ripen and dissolue Ulcers the ground of all Searcloaths called so from Cera Wax Here are Lakes of Honey found in hollow trees and Combes eight foot long the Heaths have the worst Honey and the Champion the best the finer the Wheat and the Wool the poorer the Honey the best Honey is lowest in the vessel The best Oyl is at top the best Wine in the middle and the best Honey is in the bottome It opneeth Obstructions cleareth the Breasts of those humours that fall down from the Head looseneth the Belly and hath other good qualities not to be reckoned in a Winters day 4. The fourth Commodity is Cow-hides Adam's first shute was of leaves his second of leather It is a common observation that when Wheat is dear Leather is cheap and when Leather is dear Wheat is cheap their Losh or Buffe-hide is large and fair their Bull or Cow-hide for they have no Oxen nor Weathers is small there hath been transported by Merchants an hundred thousand Hides 5. The fifth is their Meath a drink made of Water Honey and other Ingredients most wholsome for Mans body Pollio being an hundred yeares old and asked by Augustus Caesar by what meanes especially he had so long preserved his vigour both of mind and body answered Intus mulso foris Oleo By taking Metheglin inward and Oyl outward 6. The sixt Commodity is Tallow whereof they transport a great weight their pasturage being so good their fasts so many and their use of Tallow so little there hath been shipped of this commodity two millions worth to forreign parts 7. As their Beasts fat yeilds them the sixt so their Fish the seventh Commodity viz. Train-oyl which they draw out of the Seale-fish the Sturgeon the Sterledey the Sevengu c. which they take thus before Winter they leave their Boats near the Bay of St. Nicholas and at Spring they come and find the fish haunt and sholes and so environ them and kill them by force giving warning to all the Companies by firing a Beacon when they have discovered a haunt 8. Their eighth Commodity is Sturgeon and other Sea-fish caught in those Northern Seas in abundance the little head and Swines back is the sign that these fish are in season 9 The ninth Commodity is Flaxe and Hempe which hath amounted to 800000. yearly this is sold for cordage so necessary for us that it is a common Proverbe when Hempe is spun then England is done when all that necessary Commodity is employed so that there is no more left for Sailes and Cordages England whose strength consists in Shipping would be reduced to a wofull condition and I wonder there is not more Hempe sowed among us since our Land affords so much strong and deep ground proper for the same here is excellent Flaxe which well husbanded would find Linnen for the Rich and living for the Poor 10 Their tenth Commodity is Salt their best Salt is a Stararouse in very great quantity where they have great store of Salt-wells about 200 miles from the Sea at Astracan Salt is made naturally by the Sea water casting it up in heapes and so it is digged down and carried away by the Merchants this is most essential to mans livelyhood without which neither Sacrifice was pleasing to God nor meate savory to man it is placed on the Board with bread to shew that they are equally necessary to mans sustinance and it is observed that 1 Some Countryes have Salt without flesh within many miles as in the South part of Africa 2 Some have plenty of Flesh but no Salt to make use thereof as in many parts of Tartary 3 Some have Flesh and Salt but the Flesh utterly uncapable of seasoning as at Nombre de Dios 4 Some have Flesh and Salt but the Salt so dear that common people cannot compasse it as in France 5 Some have Flesh caple of Salt and Salt at an easy rate as they in Muscovy and we in England Foelices bona si sua norint 10. The tenth Commodity is Tarre which they make out of their Firre Trees in the Country of Duyna and Smolexsho whereof much is sent abroad 11. The leventh Commodity is Oake when the Spies were sent into the Land of Canaan among other instructions given them they had order to make enquiry whether there was Wood therein or not this Country affordeth abundance of Wood excellent for Shipping and other uses 12 The twelfth Commodity is Barley white large plumpe and full of Flower it is though not so toothsome yet as wholesome as Wheat it selfe and was all the staffe of Bread which Christs Body leaned upon all his life eating to attest his Humanity Barley loaves to evince his humility 13 The next Commodity is Diamonds in blacknesse and hardnesse for short of the Indian yet set with a good foile advantaged hypocrisie passeth often for sincerity may at the first sight deceive no unskilfull lapidary as their lustre is lesse then Orient Diamonds so herein they exceed them that nature hath made both their face and their dresse by whom they are pointed and polished 14 Amber-greese so precious a Commodity as is fixed to no place in the World as too great a treasure for any one Country to engrosse and therefore it is only fluctuating and casually found by small parcells sometimes in one place sometimes in another yet much of it is found upon the Coasts of Muscovy it 's by some thought to be the sperme of a Fish by others the royling of sea water by others a gumme growing on the sea shore however it is very refreshing for the spirits and Soveraign for the strengthning of the Head besides the most fragrant scent for stronger in consort when compounded with other things then when singly it selfe 15 The fifteenth Commodity is Metall which of all sorts is found with much ado in these parts especially Iron and it's elder brother steel extracted from the same Oare differing from it not in kind but in degree of purity as being the first running thereof it 's more hard and brittle then the Metalls of other Countryes 16 Fish tooth called Ribazuba

the powder whereof is good against poyson which makes Beades Knives and swords Hafts for noble Men and Gentlemen two foot in length and weigh eleven or twelve pound a peice 17 Neer Dudia is a soft Rock called Slude which cut to thin peices serveth instead of Glasse and Horne and gives a clearer light 18 They have Fallow Deer Roe Bucks great store their Staggs are stately Creatures jealous and revengefull insomuch that a Stagge unable for the present to master another who had taken his Hind from him waited his opportunity till his enemy had weakened himselfe with his wantonnesse and then killed him their Flesh must needs be good whose very Hornes are accounted Cordiall besides there is a concave in the neck of a green headed slagge when above his first crosting wherein are many wormes some two inches in length very usefull in Physick and therefore lay'd up by many discreet persons 19. There Beasts of strange kind are the Lash the Ollen the wild Horse the Bear the Wolvering or Wood Dog the Lyserne the Beaver the Siabt the Martron the blacke and dun Fox the white Bear towards the sea-coast of Pechora the Gurn-state the Miniver their Hores and Squirells which are of the usuall colour in summer but the one turnes white and the other Gray in Winter some Heathen have causlesly complained of nature as a step mother to Mankind because other creatures come into the World cloathed with Furres and Feathers whilest man is exposed naked to the world I say a causelesse charge because what the Beasts have by nature we wear by art the Furre they wore when alive we wear when they are dead 20 For Birds they have diverse of the principall kind as Hawkes Eagles the Ger-faulcon the slight Faulcon the Goshawke the Tasset the spar-Hawke the storke the Crane the Teddor the Pheasant and Patridge and the great Owle Muscovy may be called the Aviary of the World where the wild Fowle are remarkeable for 1 Plenty so that some ten thousand small Birds have been caught at a draught 2 Variety no man being able to give them their proper names except one should get Adames Nomenclator of Creatures 3 Delsciousnesse wild Fowle being more dainty and digestable then tame of the same kind as spending their grossy humors with their activity and constant motion in flying 21 They have all fresh water Fish as Pikes the fresh water Wolves and therefore an old pond-Pike is a dish of more state then profit to the Owners seeing a Pikes belly is a little Fish-pond where lesser of all sorts have been contained although tyrants are short liv'd yet Pikes live six score yeares this Fish they say cheweth the Cud is fine and wholesome and the less the sweet carps which were brought thence to England in King Hen. the 8th time Trouts pleasant and wholesome Fish as whose feeding is pure and cleanly in the swiftest streames and on the hardest gravell they are in their Perfection in May and yearly decline with the Buck Eeles which loves not the Russe as well he loves them so true is the Italian Proverbe give Eeles without Wine to your exemies Pilchards plenty whereof are taken in these parts persecuted to the shore by their enemies the sunny and Hawke till in pursuance of their revenge they all become a prey to the Fisherman their numbers are incredible employing a number of poor people in pulling gutting splitting powdering and drying them and then with Oyle and a Lemon they are meate for greatest Noble man amongst them Tenches Fish that love ponds better then Rivers and Pits better then either it 's pleasant in Tash and is called by some the Physician or surgeon of Fish it cures the Pike and therefore the Pike they say spares it and other Fish as the Bellonga the sturgeon the severign and sterledy out of the rowes of which four Fish they make great store of caveare they have White and Red sammon a dainty and wholesome Fish and a double riddle in nature First for its invisible feeding no man alive having found any measure in the maw thereof secondly for its strang leaping and shooring it self out of the water an Incredible heigth and Length and they say it increaseth from a spawn to a full grown fish within the compasse of a year plenty of these in their ports though not in such abundance as in Scotland where servants they say Indent with their masters not to be fed therewith above thrice a week The Herring a fish though Contemptible in its self Considerable in its company swiming in such sholes that what the Whale hath in bignesse the Herring hath in Number yea red Herrings which in England are eated for sauce to quicken the appetite serve in these ports for food to satisfy hunger The last Commodity is Fustian Kersy and other kind of Stuffes made cheifly in those Ports and thence brought hither CHAP. III. There Religion AS for their religion for which we ought to entertaine them It s not depraved by superstition Idolatry and usurpation of the Church of Rome but according the poorer way of the Greek Church they own the scriptures and the 4 first councells together with to the purer wayes of the primitive times they are governed by one Patrion of Chio and works by 4 Arch Bishops by threescore Bishops with there assistants there Clergy are very ignorant and unwilling to take any paines to teach the people but they read a Lyturgy and administer the sacraments there Lyturgy begins with these words Blesse O heavenly Pastour meaning Christ In the name of the Father c. Lord have mercy upon us c then in Chancel saith the Lords Prayer and a donology to the trinity then the Psalms for the day then they read Chapters the Commandments and Athanasies his Creed and then they pray there children are Baptized within 8 days after they are born the Sacrament of the Lords-supper is administred but once a year a little before Easter very solemnly all going to it with confession of sins the bread is put in the wine and so administred there was one endeavour to unite them to the Church of Rome in the year 1588. but it failed because of the many Corruptions in doctrine and discipline which they found in that Church And at the same time and ever since they have endeavoured to make leagues offensive and defensive With all Christian Princes that they might be able to grapple with the great enemy of the faith the Turke to the advancement of Religion the propagation of the Gospel and the conversion of the world if any object that Religion is not to be beaten into turn with the Dint of sword yet it may be Lawfull to open the the way force for instruction catechising such other gentle by means to follow after however if we do not offend the Infidel we may defend our selves and a preventive war grounded upon a just fear of Invasion is Lawful It s best being before hand with