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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

ground up to the roof This Triumph lasted a week wherein many royal Pastimes were seen after which election was made of the Nobles to new Offices and Dignities The conclusion of all was a Peal of 170 Brass Ordnance two miles without the City and 20000 Harquebuzes twice over and so the Emperour with at least 50 thousand Horse return'd through the City to his Palace where all the Nobility Officers and Merchants brought him rich Presents Shortly after the Emperour by direction of Boris conquer'd the large Country of Siberia and took Prisoner the King thereof he remov'd also corrupt Officers and former Taxes In sum a great alteration in the Government follow'd yet all quietly and without tumult These things reported abroad strook such awe into the neighbour Kings that the Crim Tartar with his Wives also and many Nobles valiant and personable men came to visit the Russian There came also 12 hundred Polish Gentlemen many Circassians and People of other Nations to offer service Ambassadours from the Turk the Persian Georgian and other Tartar Princes from Almany Poland Sweden Denmark But this glory lasted not long through the treachery of Boris who procur'd the death first of Demetrius then of the Emperour himself whereby the imperial Race after the succession of 300 years was quite extinguish't Boris adopted as before was said third Son to Iuan Vasiliwich without impeachment now ascended the Throne but neither did he enjoy long what he had so wickedly compass'd Divine revenge raising up against him a Counterfeit of that Demetrius whom he had caus'd to be murthered at Ouglets This Upstart strength'd with many Poles and Cossacks appears in arms to claim his right out of the hands of Boris who sent against him an Army of 200 thousand Men many of whom revolted to this Demetrius Peter Basman the General returning to Mosco with the empty Triumph of a reported Victory But the Enemy still advancing Boris one day after a plentifull Meal finding himself heavy and pain'd in his Stomach laid him down on his Bed but ' ere his Doctours who made great haste came to him was found speechless and soon after dy'd with grief as is suppos'd of his ill success against Demetrius Before his death though it were speedy he would be shorn and new christn'd He had but one Son whom he lov'd so fondly as not to suffer him out of sight using to say he was Lord and Father of his Son and yet his Servant yea his Slave To gain the Peoples love which he had lost by his ill getting the Empire he us'd two Policies first he caus'd Mosco to be fir'd in four places that in the quenching thereof he might shew his great care and tenderness of the People among whom he likewise distributed so much of his Bounty as both new-built their Houses and repair'd their Losses At another time the People murmuring that the great Pestilence which had then swept away a third part of the Nation was the punishment of their electing him a Murtherer to reign over them he built Galleries round about the utmost Wall of Mosco and there appointed for one whole month 20 thousand pound to be given to the Poor which well nigh stopt their Mouths After the death of Boris Peter Basman their onely hope and refuge though a Young man was sent again to the Wars with him many English Scots French and Dutch who all with the other General Goleeche sell off to the new Demetrius whose Messengers coming now to the Suburbs of Mosco were brought by the Multitude to that spatious Field before the Castle Gate within which the Council were then sitting many of whom were by the Peoples threatning call'd out and constrain'd to hear the Letters of Demetrius openly read which long ' ere the end wrought so with the Multitude that furiously they broke into the Castle laying violence on all they met when strait appear'd coming towards them two Messengers of Demetrius formerly sent pittifully whipt and roasted which added to their rage Then was the whole City in an uproar all the great Counselours Houses ransack't especially of the Godonova's the Kindred and Family of Boris Such of the Nobles that were best belov'd by entreaty prevail'd at length to put an end to this Tumult The Empress flying to a safer place had her Collar of Pearl pull'd from her Neck and by the next Message command was given to secure her with her Son and Daughter Whereupon Demetrius by general consent was proclaim'd Emperour The Empress now seeing all lost counsel'd the Prince her Son to follow his Father's example who it seems had dispatch't himself by Poyson and with a desperate courage beginning the deadly Health was pledg'd effectually by her Son but the Daughter onely sipping escap'd Others ascribe this deed to the secret Command of Demetrius and Self-murther imputed to them to avoid the envy of such a Command Demetrius Evanowich for so he call'd himself who succeeded was credibly reported the Son of Gregory Peupoloy a Russe Gentleman and in his younger years to have been shorn a Fryar but escaping from the Monastery to have travail'd Germany and other Countries but chiefly Poland where he attain'd to good sufficiency in Arms and other Experience which rais'd in him such high thoughts as grounding on a common belief among the Russians that the young Demetrius was not dead but convey'd away and their hatred against Boris on this foundation with some other circumstances to build his hopes no lower than an Empire which on his first discovery found acceptation so generally as planted him at length on the Royal Seat but not so firmly as the fair beginning promis'd for in a short while the Russians finding themselves abus'd by an Impostor on the sixth day after his marriage observing when his Guard of Poles were most secure rushing into the Palace before break of day drag'd him out of his Bed and when he had confes'd the fraud pull'd him to pieces with him Peter Basman was also slain and both their dead Bodies laid open in the Market-place He was of no presence but otherwise of a princely disposition too bountifull which occasion'd some exactions in other matters a great lover of justice not unworthy the Empire which he had gotten and lost onely through greatness of mind neglecting the Conspiracy which he knew the Russians were plotting Some say their hatred grew for that they saw him alienated from the Russian Manners and Religion having made Buchinskoy a learned Protestant his Secretary Some report from Gilbert's relation who was a Scot and Captain of his Guard that lying on his Bed awake not long before the Conspiracy he saw the appearance of an aged man coming toward him at which he rose and call'd to them that watch'd but they denied to have seen any such pass by them He returning to his Bed and within an hour after troubl'd again with the same Apparition sent for Buchinskoy telling him he had now twice