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A50886	A brief history of Moscovia and of other less-known countries lying eastward of Russia as far as Cathay, gather'd from the writings of several eye-witnesses / by John Milton.	Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1682 (1682)	Wing M2096; ESTC R12100	30,559	118

three daies whereof over a Lake where Rubies and Saphirs grow they came to the Alteen King or King of Alty through his Land in five weeks they pass'd into the Country of Sheromugaly or Mugalla where reigned a Queen call'd Manchika whence in four daies they came to the Borders of Cathay fenc't with a stone Wall 15 fathom high along the side of which having on the other hand many pretty Towns belonging to Queen Manchika they travail'd ten daies without seeing any on the Wall till they came to the Gate Where they saw very great Ordnance lying and 3000 men in watch They traffick with other Nations at the Gate and very few at once are suffered to enter They were travailing from Tooma to this Gate 12 weeks and from thence to the great City of Cathay ten daies Where being conducted to the House of Ambassadours within a few daies there came a Secretary from King Tambur with 200 Men well apparell'd and riding on Asses to feast them with divers sorts of Wine and to demand their Message but having brought no Presents with them they could not be admitted to his sight onely with his Letter to the Emperour they return'd as is aforesaid to Tobolsca They report that the Land of Mugalla reaches from Boghar to the north Sea and hath many Castles built of Stone four-square with Towers at the Corners cover'd with glazed Tiles and on the Gates Alarum-Bells or Watch-Bells twenty pound weight of Metal their Houses built also of Stone the Seelings cunningly painted with Flowers of all Colours The People are Idolaters the Country exceeding fruitfull They have Asses and Mules but no Horses The People of Cathay say that this great Wall stretches from Boghar to the north Sea four months journey with continual Towers a flight-shot distant from each other and Beacons on every Tower and that this Wall is the bound between Mugalla and Cathay In which are but five Gates those narrow and so low that a Horse-man sitting upright cannot ride in Next to the Wall is the City Shirokalga it hath a Castle well furnish't with short Ordnance and small Shot which they who keep watch on the Gates Towers and Walls duly at Sun set and rising discharge thrice over The City abounds with rich Merchandize Velvets Damasks Cloth of Gold and Tissue with many sorts of Sugars Like to this is the City Tara their Markets smell odoriferously with Spices and Tayth more rich than that Shirooan yet more magnificent half a day's journey through and exceeding populous From hence to Cathaia the imperial City is two daies journey built of White-stone four-square in circuit four daies going corner'd with four White Towers very high and great and others very fair along the Wall white intermingl'd with blew and Loop-holes furnisht with Ordnance In midst of this White City stands a Castle built of Magnet where the King dwels in a sumptuous Palace the top whereof is overlaid with Gold The City stands on even ground encompass'd with the River Youga 7 daies journey from the Sea The People are very fair but not warlike delighting most in rich Traffick These Relations are referr'd hither because we have them from Russians who report also that there is a Sea beyond Ob so warm that all kind of Sea-Fowl live thereabout as well in Winter as in Summer Thus much briefly of the Sea and Lands between Russia and Cathay CHAP. IV. The Succession of Moscovia Dukes and Emperours taken out of their Chronicles by a Polack with some later Additions THE great Dukes of Muscovy derive their Pedegree though without ground from Augustus Caesar whom they fable to have sent certain of his Kindred to be Governours over many remote Provinces and among them Prussus over Prussia him to have had his Seat on the eastern Baltick Shoar by the River Wixel of whom Rurek Sinaus and Truuor descended by the Fourth Generation were by the Russians living then without Civil Government sent for in the Year 573. to bear rule over them at the perswasion of Gostomislius chief Citizen of Novogrod They therefore taking with them Olechus their Kinsman divided those Countries among themselves and each in his Province taught them Civil Government Ivorson of Rurek the rest dying without Issue became Successour to them all being left in nonage under the protection of Olechus He took to wife Olha Daughter to a Citizen of Plesco of whom he begat Stoslaus but after that being slain by his Enemies Olha his Wife went to Constantinople and was there baptiz'd Helena Stoslaus fought many Battails with his Enemies but was at length by them slain who made a Cup of his Scull engrav'n with this Sentence in Gold Seeking after other Mens he lost his own His Sons were Teropolchus Olega and Volodimir Volodimir having slain the other two made himself sole Lord of Russia yet after that fact enclining to Christian Religion had to wife Anna Sister of Basilius and Constantine Greek Emperours and with all his People in the Year 988. was baptiz'd and call'd Basilius Howbeit Zonaras reporteth that before that time Basilius the Greek Emperour sent a Bishop to them at whose preaching they not being mov'd but requiring a Miracle he after devout Prayers taking the Book of Gospel into his hands threw it before them all into the Fire which remaining there unconsum'd they were converted Volodimir had eleven Sons among whom he divided his Kingdom Boristus and Glebus for their holy Life register'd Saints and their Feast kept every year in November with great solemnity The rest through contention to have the sole Government ruin'd each other leaving onely Iaroslaus inheritour of all Volodimir Son of Iaroslaus kept his Residence in the ancient City Kiow upon the River Boristenes And after many conflicts with the Sons of his Uncles and having subdu'd all was call'd Monomachus He made war with Constantine the Greek Emperour wasted Thracia and returning home with great spoils to prepare new war was appeas'd by Constantine who sent Neophytus Bishop of Ephesus and Eustathius Abbot of Ierusalem to present him with part of our Saviour's Cross and other rich Gifts and to salute him by the name of Czar or Caesar with whom he thenceforth enter'd into league and amity After him in order of descent Vuszevolodus George Demetrius Then George his Son who in the Year 1237. was slain in battail by the Tartar Prince Bathy who subdu'd Muscovia and made it tributary From that time the Tartarians made such Dukes of Russia as they thought would be most pliable to their ends of whom they requir'd as oft as Ambassadours came to him out of Tartary to go out and meet them and in his own Court to stand bare-headed while they sate and deliver'd their Message At which time the Tartars wasted also Polonia Silesia and Hungaria till Pope Innocent the Fourth obtain'd peace of them for 5 years This Bathy say the Russians was the Father of Tamerlan whom they call