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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35310	The antient and present state of Muscovy containing a geographical, historical, and political account of all those nations and territories under the jurisdiction of the present czar : with sculptures and a new map / by J.C., M.D., Fellow of the Royal Society, and a member of the College of Physicians, London.	Crull, J. (Jodocus), d. 1713?	1698 (1698)	Wing C7424; Wing C7425; ESTC R2742	334,877	511

as big and somewhat thicker than a Crown Piece and hath in the middle the sign of the Crucifix This figure after it is Consecrated the Priest takes off with an Instrument not unlike a Launcet and puts it up in a wooden Box hanging above the Altar to preserve it from Rats and Mice If a sick Person is to receive the Communion they take a little of it upon which they put a few drops of Red Wine and a little Water in the Chalice which they give to the sick Person with a Spoon if the sick Person be not capable of swallowing the Bread they give him only a little Wine In the ordinary Administration of the Sacrament they make use of the same sort of consecrated Bread but not bigger than half a Crown from which they also take the Crucifix and break it into as many pieces as there are Communicants which they cast into Red Wine and mix it with a little warm Water and so Administer with a Spoon What remains of the Bread after Consecration is called Kutja or Holy Bread of which the Priest gives a Morsel to each of those who have Communicated the Week before At the Administring of the Sacrament the Priest says these Words This is the true Body and the true Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which hath been given for thee and for many more for the remission of thy sins which thou shalt take in remembrance of him God bless thee There have been some who from these Words have drawn this inference as if the Muscovites believed Transubstantiation against which several pregnant reasons may be alledged to the contrary For if you Discourse the Muscovites concerning the Consequences of that belief they will not refuse to own it irrational nay absur'd and ridiculous neither do they call to their aid as the Roman Catholicks do God's Omnipotency Besides that they dont pay Adoration to this Mystery which doubtless they would do in a Religion so Zealous and Superstitious as theirs were they of the same Opinion as to this point with the Roman Catholicks Sick Children though never so Young receive the Communion but in one kind till they are seven Years Old when they Communicate like the rest as we have observed before They do not refuse the Communion to Madmen but they only touch their Lips with the Bread dip'd before in the Wine A Woman in Child-bed is not to Communicate in the same Room where she was brought to Bed but must be first washed and carried into another place Those that have committed Murther are not to be Communicated but at the point of Death if those that lie in extremity are to be Communicated they gave them first some Water or Aqua-vitae wherein some relicks have been put then they receive the Communion and at the same time the Extream Unction which done they are to take nothing else nor any Nourishment unless there be very apparent Signs of their amendment There are some among the Muscovites who at the last extremity cause themselves to be Shaven and become real Monks This once done they are not permitted to take any thing for a Week after being perswaded that they are no more Men but become Angels And if they happen after these Eight Days of Abstinence to recover their Health they must go into a Monastery because the Razor has passed upon their Heads Formerly they used to send the Consecrated Bread to those Places in the Country that were destitute of Priests They used also to give it to Travellers to reserve it for a Case of Necessity But this Custom is now quite abolished in Muscovy The Ecclesiastical Government of Muscovy consists of a Patriarch Their Hierarchy who resides in the City of Musco four Metropolitans seven Archbishops and one Bishop besides the Arch-Deacons Proto-Popes and Priests The four Metropolitans are those of Novogorodskoi and Welikoluskoi who resides at Novogorod Of Rostoufskoi and Harostauskoi who has his Residence at Rosto● Of Casanskoi and Sunatskoi at Casan And that of Sarskoi and Pondoskoi who lives within the Castle at Musco The seven Archbishops are those of Wologdskoi and Weliko Premskoi who has his Seat at Wologda Of Resanskoi and Moromskoi who lives at Resan Of Susdalskoi and Turruskoi who has his Residence at Susdal Of Twerskoi and Cassinskoi at T were Of Sibirskoi and Tobolskoi at Toboleska Of Astrachanschoi and Terskoi who resides at Astrachan Of Pleskouskoi and Sborskoi who lives at Pleskou There is but one Bishop in all Muscovy to wit that of Comenskoi and Cassieskoi who keeps his Residence in the City of Columna The Patriarch hath always about him an Arch-Deacon who is as it were his Vicar-General He hath also a Proto-Deacon residing in the Castle of Sabor The rest of the Ecclesiastical Order are distinguished into Proto-Popes and Popes or Priests Those that attend at Church toll the Bells and do other inferiour Offices are called Pangamari The Patriarch of Muscovy has the same if not a greater Authority as the Pope has in the Latin Church for he in a manner divides the Sovereignty with the Great Duke He is the Supream Head and Judge of all Ecclesiastical Affairs And such is his Power in all Matters that have any Relation to their Religion that he reforms whatever he thinks prejudicial to this Religion or good Manners without giving an Account of it to their Great Duke Yet not so but that his Orders must be put in Execution by the Czar's Commands The Patriarch of Constantinople had heretofore the Nomination of the Patriarch of Muscovy till in process of Time he had only the Confirmation and in this Age he hath lost both At present the Patriarch of Muscovy is chosen by the Great Duke and the other Prelates The Latter meet in the great Church within the Castle called Sabor where having nominated two or three Prelates the most eminent for Learning and other good Qualilities they present them to the Great Duke who after a Conference with these Prelates proceeds jointly with them to an Election If it happen that those proposed for the Election are equally eminent for their Learning and Piety it is with the Grand Duke's Approbation sometimes decided by Lot The Patriarch Their Prelates marry not Metropolitans Archbishops and the Bishop in Muscovy are not to marry but make a Vow of Chastity as long as they continue in that Dignity For the Prelates as well as the Priests are allowed here to quit their Orders whenever they think it convenient They must not wear Rings on their Fingers They wear neither Drawers nor Shirts of Linen Cloth but of Flannel Neither do they make use of Beds The ordinary Habit of the Patriarch Their Habits Metropolitans Archbishops Bishop and even of their Monks is very near the same They wear a black Cassock and over that an upper Garment of the same Colour not much different from that worn by the other Muscovites Their Hoods are at least an Ell and an half

put into a general Consternation the Great Duke surrounded by a great Number of his Guards appeared in the Market-place seating himself near the Caldron of boiling Water But perceiving that the Generality of the Citizens had out of Fear either abandon'd their Houses or at least absconded and dispersed themselves into the other Quarters of the the City he rid in Person through the Streets crying out to them Let nothing disturb you Come and see what I am going to do I give you my Word that nothing shall hurt you you may come forth without the least Danger to your selves Therefore come forth and see what a Spectacle I am preparing for you The People partly out of Fear partly out of Curiosity flocked to the Market-place where they saw 400 Noble-men of the most antient Families in Muscovy coupled together Two and Two like Hounds and so miserably disfigured by the Violence of the Torture that they were almost not to be known by their nearest Kindred To gratifie in some measure the People he selected 180 out of their Number Vnto these said he I give their Lives for your sakes I will pardon them all their Offences Let them be presently discharged Which being done accordingly The first that was brought forth to Execution was John Michaelovits Wiskowaty his Chancellor descended from one of the most antient Families in Muscovy Who being charged with Keeping great Correspondence with the King of Poland and inviting the Turks and Tartars to invade Muscovy when he was just going to be put on one of the Gibbets he spoke these following Words I call God Almighty the Infallible Searcher of Hearts to witness of what I am going to say to be true I confess my self before him to be a miserable Sword● and trust in his Mercy through the Blood of his 〈◊〉 beloved Son But as to what concerns the Station I was lately in by the Great Duke's Favour I protest to God that I have always discharged my Trust faithfully as I ought to do towards him and therefore I appeal at this Instant to the Tribunal of God where when I shall meet the Duke I will make my Innocence appear to the Great Judge of Heaven and Earth I am sensible that O Duke such is thy Ambition such is thy Avarice and Thirst after innocent Blood that nothing but my Life can satisfie thee at present Glut thy self therefore with innocent Blood but remember that thou must one Day give a most severe Account of all these most barbarous Cruelties Whilst he was going on in his Discourse the Executioner by the Great Duke's Order tied him up to one of the Gibbets with his Feet upwards and his Head hanging down This done one of the Captains of his Guards asked him what he would have farther done with this Malefactor Every one of you said he that belong to my Court here present shall lend an helping Hand to send this Traytor out of the World whom I will have cut Limb by Limb. He had no sooner spoke the Word but the first Captain of his Guards called Molutlo dismounting his Horse he with a little Knife cut off his Right Ear the Second his Left the Third his Lips and so every one in their Turn the rest of his Limbs The Secretary of the Grand Duke being also to have his Share in the Execution at last cut off his Privy Members of which he immediately died Which the Duke perceiving and believing that it had been done on purpose to shorten the Chancellor's Misery he ordered him to eat them instantly which he was forced to do The dead Body of the Chancellor being taken from the Gibbet and cut into small pieces the next that was brought upon the Scaffold was Michael Tum●chow the Lord High Treasurer of Musc●●y for no other reason but that he had been an intimate Friend of the Chancellors he was very short in his Expressions saying only these Words I appeal to God from whom nothing can be hidde● 〈◊〉 I never was guilty of any trespass against my Lord and Master and that I have faithfully and without any fraud discharged my Office wherefore I summon thee O Great Duke to appear on the last day of Judgment before the Tribunal of God where thou shalt be obliged to make ample satisfaction to me Having ended these Words he was tied up to the Gibbet in the same manner as the Chancellor with his Head downwards and very close shaved After he had hung thus for some time two of the Captains of his Guards each with a bucket of Water whereof one was Cold the other fill'd out of the Chaldron with Boiling Water we mentioned before approached to the Gibbet and he with the cold Water having first washed his Head the other continually poured the Boiling hot Water upon it till the Skin was quite shriveled together and the poor Treasurer at last died in the midst of the most exquisite Torments The third in order was his Cook who underwent the same Fate as the Chancellor being cut to pieces Limb by Limb. After these follow three of the Great Duke's chief Secretaries George Czapkinou John Buthakow and Basili Stepanow these were all together with their Wives and Children cut in pieces in the Great Duke's presence by his Guards At last two hundred of these Noble Men we spoke of before were brought before the Great Duke upon the Scaffold who having Condem'd them to Die without as much as naming their Crime they were in an instant cut to pieces by his Guards before his Face To conclude the Tragedy the Great Duke ordered to be brought before him out of Prison where he had been detained a great while a certain person venerable for his Old Age and Nobility as being extracted from a very ancient Family whom he run through the Body with his own Lance and not satisfied with that after the Old Man lay upon the Ground wallowing in his Blood gave him at least Fifteen or Sixteen Wounds more till he died upon the Spot This Spectacle having thus continued for four Hours the Tyrant before he returned to the Castle would needs give a Visit to the Widow of the Treasurer whom he had caused to be executed just before She was Sister to the Duke Wiazinski and one of the handsomest Ladies in all Muscovy whom he found shut up in her Bed-chamber all over whelmed with Grief and lamenting the miserable Death of her Husband in Terms so Passionate that it would have moved Compassion in a heart of Stone But the Tyrant being void of all sense of Humanity no sooner entred the House but ordered her to be stript stark Naked and to be set with her bare Buttocks upon a Rope fastned titely for that purpose betwixt two Posts and so to be drawn upon the Rope till the tender Flesh of this Pretty Creature not being able to resist long the violence of this motion was torn every where to the very Bones of which she died some days after She had a

often repulsed till the Garrison by their Threats was at last prevailed upon to surrender the unfortunate Demetrius into their Hands From thence they led him Demetrius led in Triumph after they had put a ragged Coat about him thro' the Streets of the City in Triumph under the Imprecations and Scorns of the Rabble who pointed Fingers into his very Eyes pluck'd him by the Nose and Chin asking him whether he was now Demetrius or Grisko All which he bore with a most admirable Constancy not so much as uttering one Word and scarce changing his Countenance But coming near the Market-place and perceiving a great number of the dead Bodies of the Poles slain by the Muscovites wallowing in their own Blood he could not refrain from shedding of Tears expressing a greater Sense of their Sufferings than his own telling them that if they would but have spared his Friends he should not have grumbled at his own Fate tho' perhaps the most severe and not to be parallel'd in History as being their lawful Sovereign and Youngest Son to their Grand Duke John Basilovits for the Confirmation of which he would appeal to his Mother The People being not a little startled at his resolute Behaviour began to abate of their former Fierceness and having sent Knez Basili-Zuski to the Empress Dowager to learn from her own Mouth the whole Truth of the Matter he return'd soon after with this Answer That the Empress Dowager his pretended Mother had declared to him upon the Cross that he was no Son of hers and what she had done before in acknowledging him as such had been done partly to obtain her Freedom and partly to revenge her self upon the Family of Boris Goudenou for the Murther of her Son Demetrius This Answer having been soon spread among the People a certain Muscovite thronging thro' the Croud that surrounded Demetrius with his Pistol ready cock'd in his Hand and coming up close to him Thou infamous Traitor said he take the Reward of thy Imposture Demetrius kill'd and so shot him thro' the Heart that he fell dead the same Instant at his Feet those that stood nearest wounding the dead Carcass with their Scymeters and Pikes and after they had stript and mangled it so as scarce to be known dragg'd it thro' the Streets of the City and committed all manner of Barbarities upon the dead Body of the same Person whom within a few Months before they both dreaded and adored Thus was the Splendor of the Nuptials darkned by the fatal End of Demetrius who after he had scarce tasted the Sweets of a Diadem and the Joys of a fair Bride was snatch'd away from both by the same Fate that not many Months before had exalted him to this sublime Station on purpose as it seems to make his fall the more conspicuous It is a controverted Point to this day not only among a great many of the Russians but especially betwixt the Poles and Swedes whether he was an Impostor or not The Swedes who were engag'd on Boris Goudenou's and Basili-Zuski's side strenuously maintain the first and for the Confirmation of this their Opinion alledge that it was put beyond all question by the Evidence of the Empress Dowager and Basili-Zuski himself who managed the Funeral Solemnities of the true Demetrius slain at Vgletz and asserted that he was certainly murthered by the Assassins sent for that purpose by Boris Goudenou and that the owning of this Impostor to be the true Demetrius by Zuski proceeded from his fear of being Massacred by the People as that of the Empress owes its Origin to the Obligation she had to him for her Liberty and the Satisfaction she received of being revenged of the Borisian Family The Poles on the other hand who sided with this Demetrius assert the contrary affirming that what the Swedes relate of him is founded meerly upon Hear-say suggested by his Enemies on purpose to encompass their Designs of snatching the Crown from the true Family of the Great Duke Basilovits That the Swedes who were not concern'd so nearly in the Matter as the Poles and that not till several years after the Fray was begun ought not to be look'd upon as competent Judges of this Controversie That it would be ridiculous to suppose that so many Persons of Quality in Poland and the King himself could be thus imposed upon that it was not very likely that the Weywode of Sendomiria would have thus engag'd in his Interest and promised him his Daughter in Marriage if besides the great Resemblance he had with that Demetrius at Vgletz he had not had very evident Proofs of the reality of his Extraction That the first Declaration of the Empress Dowager was without question real and that the pretended denial made afterwards to Basili-Zuski concerning this Demetrius was extorted from her by Fear besides that it was only founded upon the Faith of Basili-Zuski who as it sufficiently appear'd afterwards was his Rival for the Crown of Muscovy and succeeded him in the Empire But we must pursue our Tragedy which did not end with the Death of Demetrius For there being a considerable number of Poles quartered in the more remote Parts of the City who being involved in Drink and Sleep had not as yet heard the least Tidings of what had past in and about the Castle and the Muscovites fearing not without Reason that if they should take the Alarm upon so surprising an Occasion they would sell their Lives at a very dear rate they resolved to draw them into the Trap before they could have any notice of this Accident For this purpose certain Messengers were dispatch'd with counterfeit Orders from Demetrius to appear forthwith in the Castle without their Arms the Grand Duke being resolved that at the Day of a general Rejoycing nothing of Terror should appear at his Nuptials The Poles not suspecting the concealed Fraud of this deceitful Message came forth without their Arms thus tamely exposing themselves to the Slaughter which was executed upon them with a more than barbarous Cruelty very few escaping the hands of the bloody Muscovites except some Gentlemen of Quality who having scatter'd some Money among the Rabble had thereby an Opportunity given them to gather into a small Body and so hew'd their Way thro' their Enemies till they came to the Palace of George Mniszeck Weywode of Sendomiria Father-in-Law to the Great Dutchess where was also the Duke Wisnowiski and some other Polish Lords who having opened their way by their Scymiters to this Palace which was pretty strong were resolved to defend it to the utmost and at least not to sell their Lives at a cheap rate Neither was it long before they saw themselves surrounded on all sides by an infinite number of their Enemies who with great Fury attack'd them on all sides but with little Success for the Poles having no other Sanctuary left them fought like desperate Men and as often as they were attack'd by the Enemies drove