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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

where I with others saw him and he espying me called vpon Christ They threw him into a Dungeon where hee miserably ended his life He had liued in pompe and beene Authour of much mischiefe had conuayed much treasure out of the Countrey by way of England to Wesell in Westphalia where hee was borne though brought vp in Cambridge an Enemy alway to our Nation Hee had deluded the Emperour with tales of Queene Elizabeths youth and hopes by his Calculations of obtayning her But the Emperour out of hope hereof heard that there was a young Lady of the bloud Royall the Lady Mary Hastings daughter to the Earle of Huntington whom he now affected The Bishop of Nouogrod was condemned of coyning and sending money to Swethen and Poland of keeping Witches buggering Boyes and Beasts confederating with Bomelius c. All his goods were confiscated and himselfe throwne into a Dungeon with Irons on his head and legges where he made painted Images Combes and Beads liued with bread and water Eleuen of his confederate Seruants were hanged in his Palace gate at Mosco and his women Witches shamefully dismembred and burnt The Emperour passed ouer those which had beene accused and now consulted about marrying his second Sonne Chariwich Theodor being of great simplicitie the eldest hauing no issue But hauing his Prelates and Nobles together could not but euaporate some of his conceits from the former confessions of their Treasons being Ascension day on which before Musco had beene burned He spent some houres in Rhetoricall enlarging the dismalnesse of that day with great eloquence darting still with his eye at many Confederates in the late Conspiracie protesting to leaue them a naked disloyall and distressed people and a reproch to all Nations of the World The Enemies are at hand God and his prodigious creatures in the Heauens fight against vs Scarcity and Famine witnesse it and yet no Iudgements moue remorse in you The Originall is too long to recite Little was done but all prostrating themselues to his Maiesty and mercy desired God to blesse his holy purpose for the marriage of his Sonne for whom he chose Irenia daughter of Theodor Iuanowich Godonoue and after the solemnization of the marriage with great Feast dismissed the Nobles and Prelates with better words and countenance which was taken for a reconciliation But the Nuptials could not be performed by vsuall cohabitation which much distempered the King it is not decent to write the courses taken therein The Emperous Letters Instructions were ready himselfe his chiefe Secretarie Sauelly Frowlow whiles I was present closed them vp in one of the false sides of a woodden Bottle filled with Aquanitae to hang vnder my Horse-mayne not worth one penny appointed me foure hundred Hungarian Duckets in Gold to be sowed in my boots and quilted in some of my worst garments He said he forbare to tell me of some secrets of his peasure fearing left I passing thorow his Enemies Country might bee inforced to discouer what hee would not haue knowne The Bottle you carry with you shall declare what you shall say to Queene Elizabeth my louing Sister of which you must haue care as of your life vntill you come in safe place to open it In meane while and alway bee thou my sweet Sunshine Eremiska trusty and faithfull and thy reward shall be my goodnesse and grace from me hereafter I fell prostrate layd my head on his foot with a heauy heart to bee thus exposed to vnauoydable danger Doeafie Vlanon a Gentleman of good ranke and daily Wayter on the King attended me my Sled and Horse and twenty Seruants were ready at the posterne gate I posted that night to Otuer ninety miles where victuals and fresh Horses were prepared and so to Nouogrod and Plesco 600. miles in three dayes where entring into Liuonia my Gentleman and Seruants tooke their leaues and desired some token to the Emperour of my safe comming thither They left me with a poore guide only Within three houres after the Centinell tooke me vpon the borders and brought me to New house into the Castle before the State-holder or Lieutenant who straitly examined and searched me suspecting me as one comming from their enemies Country I said I was glad to come into their hands out of the vaile of misery the Moscouites Country not without losse On the third day vpon some mediation they appointed mee a Guide and suffered mee to passe The Guard expected gratuitie but I excused as pinched by the Russe I passed three dayes by Land and frozen Meares to Ossell in Liefland an Iland large and spacious vnder the King of Denmarke Raggamuffin Souldiers tooke me and vsed me roughly and carried me to Sowen Burgh and so to Orent Burgh the chiefe Townes and Castles in those parts and there deliuered me to the State-holders Lieutenant I attended his pleasure kept hardly as a Spie the Snakes creeping in my Lodging on Bed and board and Milke pans the soyle was such they did no harme I was called before the chiefe Gouernour a graue Gentleman in good fauour with the King many Halberds attending who examined me with many questions I answered I was a Subiect of the Queene of England who had peace with all Christian Kings specially with the King of Denmarke but was committed againe to custody whence hauing dismissed his company he sent for me againe by his Sonne and being priuate holding a Letter in his hand said I haue receiued sundry Letters from my friends and one of late from my daughter captiue in Mosco which sheweth of much friendship shee hath found at an English Gentlemans hand which negociates in that Court for the Queen of England My Lord said I is your daughter called Magdalen Vrkil yea Sir said he I answered I was the man that within these ten dayes she was well He sayd he could not procure her ransome and clasps me about the neck crying as did his Sonne likewise Gods Angell hath brought your goodnesse thus to me how euer disguised in this turbulent time that I might render you thankes and furtherance I desired free passe and safe conduct He feasted me ioyfully and made ready his Letters and Pasports to Captaines of Townes and Castles gaue mee a faire German striking Clocke offered his Sonne and Seruants armed to guard me out of danger which I could not accept of and commended his daughter to me I passed on to Pilton a strong Castle where King Magnus lay who vsed mee roughly because I could not drinke with him excessiuely Hee had riotously spent and giuen most of his Townes and Castles Iewels Plate c. to his followers and adopted daughters which hee receiued in Dowre with the Emperours Neece and not long after dyed miserably leauing his Queene and only daughter in very poore estate I roade thorow the Duke of Curlands Country and Prussia to Konninsburgh Meluin and Danzike in Polond Pomerania and Mickelburgh to Lubeck where I was

cut their Cables and to escape by flight being swifter of sayle then the English Thus the Portugals wanted a Hercules for this Dragon more watchfull then the Hesperidan more terrible then the Lernaean or a Medaea to Charme this as sometimes the Colchian these three Dragons the Poets faine Monsters begotten of Typhon and Echidna but none of them breathing Fire nor roaring Thunders like this fell Indian Dragon here spoken of In these fights after Master Salmons reckoning the Dragon spent sixe hundred thirtie nine and the Osiander three hundred eightie seuen great shot besides three thousand small The Great Mogoll which before thought none comparable to the Portugall at Sea much wondred at the English resolution related to him by Sardar Cham. The Portugals lost by their owne Confession one hundred and sixtie by others report fiue hundred men the Sabandar reckoned three hundred and fiftie in these fights the English three men and the arme of another shot off The Articles agreed on before by the Gouernour were confirmed by the Kings Firma which they receiued Ianuary the eleuenth Captaine Best returned to Swally December one and twentieth and sent Letters of this successe for England by land but the Messenger with his Indian were both poysoned by two Friers in the way homewards another Letter sent by a Mariner came to the Companies hands in very good season and they sent forth foure ships hither besides three to other places vnder the Command of Generall Downton viz. The New yeeres Gift the Hector the Merchants Hope and the Salomon These leauing England in March on October the fifteenth following 1614. anchored at South Swally not farre from Surrat where they found the Countrey in Armes against the Portugals which had a little before taken a Ship of the Mogols in which was said to bee three millions of Treasure and two women bought for the Great Mogol They also tooke a Guzzarate Ship worth one hundred thousand pounds with seuen hundred persons therin at the barre of Surat notwithstanding their owne Passe granted them and sent them to Goa The Decanims laid siege to Chaul and Mocrob Chan was to doe his vtmost for his Master the Mogol The Moores on all hands sought their Destruction and they were driuen to send away many hundreths of the Banyans out of their Townes to free themselues of vnprofitable Mouths three Barkes of which came to Surat others to Cambaya Mocrob Chan laboured very earnestly with the Generall to ingage himselfe in that warre against the Portugall which because he could not doe except in a defensiue quarrell by his Commission the Nabab so they call this Mocrob Chan then Vice-Roy or Gouernour of the Countrey about Surat the Iesuites interprete Nabab supreame Iudge was strange to the English and offered the Merchants some hard measure yea the Iesuites which were with Mocrob Chan tooke occasion from this refusall to counterfeit a Letter from the Vice-Roy threatning that except they yeelded to peace He and his friends the English would ioyne against Surat which suspition Master Aldworth one of our Merchants furthered ignorant of the former but threatning that their abuses would cause the English to ioyne with the Portugall Thus ticklish were the termes on which they stood December the sixteenth the Generall receiued a Letter that the Portugals had burnt Goga with many Villages thereabouts and ten great Ships one of which was the Rehemee with one hundred and twentie small vessels hee read the Letter of a Iesuite in which the King of Spaine commaunded the Vice-Roy to burne Surat if they receiued the English On December the seuen and twentieth two and twentie Portugall Frigates sought to lay the Hope aboord but by force of shot were put off The Vice-Roy sent offer of Friendship to Mocrob Chan on condition that hee would turne the English out of Surat and suffer him to build a Fort at Swally otherwise threatning bloudie warres And so on Ianuary the fourteenth came two Fleets of Frigates and on the eighteenth sixe great Gallions with three lesser Ships Two Gallies were yet behinde The Frigates were threescore some adde fifteene more This great force made Mocrob Chan to feare whereupon hee sent a Present to the Vice-Roy with some Treatie of peace whereof the Vice-roy made light account thinking first to ouercome vs a thing not hard in his conceit and then to treate of peace on his owne termes Much policie was vsed on both parts the Nabab complementing and sending Ptesents to the Vice-Roy and out Generall also the Vice-Roy promising much to himselfe but reckoning without his host and therefore when after the fight hee would haue concluded vpon the conditions that Mocrob had offered hee was then refused with a scoffe that hee would not make peace with so weake an enemy that could not preuaile against foure Merchants Ships On the twentieth of Ianuary their three smaller Ships had thought to haue Stemmed the Hope then riding at an Anchor neere the Barre of Swally some distance from the rest these laid her aboord on the Star-boord side and one Gally and fiue and fortie sayle of Frigates on their Lar-boord the Gallions followed as farre as the Sands would permit The Admirall made to their helpe and for the better speed cut their Cable but the Enemies had alreadie entered with great shew of resolution without feare or wit saith one of the Hopes men thirtie or fortie were entered on the Fore-castle But the Gift in this fatall Moneth answered her Name and gaue them for a New-yeeres-Gift such Orations roarations yee may call them that they were easily perswaded to leaue the Hope and all hopelesse to coole their hote blouds with leaping into the Seas cold waters where many for want of a Boat made vse of Charons those that were of most hope and courage held still their possession of the entered Hope but with enterred hopes and dispossession of their liues I know not what Salmoneus Dum flammas Iouis sonitus imitatur Olympi Aere imitans nimbos non imitabile fulmen or what Prometheus hath taught these later Ages to steale Iupiters Fires and instructed so many Cyclopean Artificers to imitate those heauenly in hellish Thunders and sulphurous lightnings these Mettall-Deuils as Angels of Death with Brazen sides and Iron Mouths proclaiming Destruction and Desolation to the World These Bullets are the true fire-breathing Buls such the Poets fained at Colchos and this Ordnance the fire-foaming horses of Diomedes feeding on the flesh of men which yet I know not whether very crueltie haue made sparing whiles the Terror hath made men sparing in the vse of it this Age for this cause yeelding fewer pitched battels and in them fewer slaine numbers then the former which neuer heard of this cruell-mercifull Engine But let vs leaue this Parenthesis The Portugals whether themselues by casualtie or industry set fire on their ships or that the fire which Master Mullineux the Master of the Hope cast into one of

reports For he being a Mariner vsed to the Sea from his youth and sayling from Cales to Portugall obserued that at certaine seasons of the yeere the windes vsed to blow from the West which continued in that manner a long time together And deeming that they came from some coast beyond the Sea he busied his minde so much herewith that he resolued to make some triall and proofe thereof When he was now forty yeeres old hee propounded his purpose to the Senate of Genua vndertaking if they would lend him ships he would find a way by the West vnto the Ilands of Spices But they reiected it as a dreame Columbus frustrate of his hopes at Genua yet leaues not his resolution but goeth to Portugall and communicates this matter with Iohn the second King of Portugall but finding no entertainment to his suites sendeth his brother Bartholomew Columbus to King Henry the seuenth of England to sollicite him in the matter whiles himselfe passed into Spaine to implore the aide of the Castilians herein Bartholomew vnhappily lighted on Pirats by the way which robbed him and his company forced him to sustayne himselfe with making of Sea-cards And hauing gotten somewhat about him presents a Map of the World to King Henry with his Brothers offer of Discouerie which the King gladly accepted and sent to call him into England But hee had sped of his suite before in Spaine and by the King and Queene was employed according to his request For comming from Lisbone to Palos di Moguer and there conferring with Martin Alonso Pinzon an expert Pilot and Fryer Io. Perez a good Cosmographer hee was counselled to acquaint with those his proiects the Dukes of Medina Sidonia and of Medina Caeli which yeelding him no credit the Fryer counselled him to goe the Court and wrote in his behalfe to Fryer Fernand di Telauera the Queenes Confessor Christopher Columbus came to the Court of Castile Anno 1486 and found cold welcome to his suite at the hands of the King and Queene then busied with hot warres in Granada whence they expelled the Moores And thus remayned hee in contempt as a man meanely clothed without other Patron then a poore Fryer saue that Alonso di Quintaniglia gaue him his Dyet who also at last procured him audience with the Archbishop of Toledo by whose mediation he was brought before the King and Queene who gaue him fauourable countenance and promised to dispatch him when they had ended the warres of Granada which also they performed Thus Columbus is set forth with three Caruels at the Kings charges who because his treasure was then spent in the warres borrowed sixteene thousand Duckets of Lewes de Sanct Angelo and on Friday the third of August in the yeere of our Lord 1492. in a Vessell called the Gallega accompanyed with the Pinta and Ninna in which the Pinzons Brethren went as Pilots with the number of an hundred and twenty persons or thereabouts set sayle for Gomera one of the Canary Ilands and hauing there refreshed himselfe followed his Discouery After many dayes hee encountred with that Hearbie Sea whereof before we haue spoken which not a little amated and amazed the Spaniards and had caused their returne had not the sight of some Birds promised him land not farre off He also first taught the Spaniards to obserue the Sunne and Pole in their Nauigations which till his Voyage they had not vsed nor knowne But the Spaniards after three and thirty dayes sayling desperate of successe mutined and threatned to cast Columbus into the Sea disdayning much that a stranger a Genuois had so abused them But he pacified their enraged courages with milde speeches and gentle promises On the eleuenth day of October one Rodorigo di Triana espyed and cryed Land Land the best Musicke that might be especially to Columbus who to satisfie the Spaniards importunity had promised the day before that if no Land appeared in three dayes hee would returne One the night before had descryed fire which kindled in him some hope of great reward at the Kings hand when hee returned into Spaine but beeing heerein frustrate hee burnt into such a flame as that it consumed both Humanitie and Christianitie in him and in the agony of indignation made him leaue his Countrey and Faith and reuolt to the Moores But thee Columbus how can I but remember but loue but admire Sweetly may those bones rest sometimes the Pillars of that Temple where so diuine a Spirit resided which neyther want of former example nor publike discouragements of domesticall and forren States nor priuate insultations of proud Spaniards nor length of time which vsually deuoureth the best resolutions nor the vnequall Plaines of huge vnknowne Seas nor grassie fields in Neptunes lap nor importunate whisperings murmurings threatnings of inraged companions could daunt O name Colon worthy to be named vnto the Worlds end which to the Worlds end hast conducted Colonies or may I call thee Colombo for thy Doue-like simplicitie and patience the true Colonna or Pillar whereon our knowledge of this New World is founded the true Christopher which with more then Giant-like force and fortitude hast carried Christ his Name and Religion through vnknowne Seas to vnknowne Lands which we hope and pray that it may be more refined and reformed then Popish superstition and Spanish pride will yet suffer Now let the Ancients no longer mention Neptune or Minos or Erythras or Danaus to all which diuers authors diuersly ascribe the inuention of nauigation Mysians Troyans Tyrians vaile your bonnets strike your top-sayles to this Indian-Admirall that deserueth the top-saile indeed by aspiring to the top that sayling could ayme at in discouering another World Let Spaniards French English and Dutch resound thy name or His Name rather whose Name who can tell that would acquaint Thee and the World by thee with newes of a New-World But lest we drowne our selues in this Sea of Extasie and Admiration let vs goe on shoare with Columbus in his new discouered Iland And first mee thinkes I see the Spaniards yesterday in mutinie now as farre distracted in contrary passions some gazing with greedie eyes on the desired Land some with teares of ioy not able to see that which the ioy of seeing made them not to see others embracing and almost adoring Columbus who brought them to that sight some also with secret repinings enuying that glory to a stranger but byting in their byting enuie and making shew of glee gladnesse all new awaked out of a long trance into which that Step-mother-Ocean with dangers doubts dreads despaires had deiected them reuiued now by the sight of their mother-earth from whom in vnknowne armes they had beene so long weaned and detayned On shoare they goe and felling a tree make a Crosse thereof which there they erected and tooke possession of that New World in the name of the Catholike Kings This was done on the eleuenth of October Anno 1492.

people who liued and wallowed in the height of their wickednesse and lust of crying Sodomiticall sinnes to be thus punished both by so bloudy a King and this Scythian Enemy who came with two hundred thousand Horsemen within fifty miles compasse on the Riuer Occa neere Circapoe and vpon secret intelligence as was thought he passed the Riuer without repulse of the Emperours Army who durst not on paine of death stirre beyond their bounds vpon whatsoeuer aduantage The Enemy approching the great City of Musco the Russe Emperour flies with his two Sonnes Treasure Seruants and his Guard of twenty thousand Gunners towards a strong Monastery Troiets or the Trinity sixty miles off Vpon Ascention day the Enemy fires the high steeple of Saint Iohns Church at which instant happened a tempestuous wind whereby all the Churches Houses Monasteries and Palaces within the City and Suburbs thirty miles compasse built most of Firre and Oke were set on fire and consumed in sixe houres space with infinite thousands of Men Women and Children burnt and smothered to death by the fierie aire few escaping without and within the three walled Castles The Riuer and Ditches about Musco were stopped and filled with multitudes of people laden with Gold Siluer Iewels Earings Chaines Bracelets Rings and other Treasure which went for succour to saue their heads aboue water All which notwithstanding so many thousands were there burnt and drowned that the Riuer could not with all meanes and industry that could bee vsed bee in two yeeres after cleansed those which were left aliue and many from other places being daily occupied within great circuits to search and dragge for Iewels Plate bags of Gold and Siluer I my selfe was somewhat the better for that fishing The streets of the City Churches Sellers and Vaults lay so thicke and full of dead carkasses as no man could passe for the noysome smels long after The C●im and his Army beheld this fire solacing himselfe in a faire Monastery foure miles off and tooke the spoyle of such as fled from the fire besetting all the wayes about the Citie and returned with much Treasure and store of Captiues passing ouer the Riuer the same way they came The Russe Emperour fled further to Vologda fiue hundred miles from Mosco accompanied with his Clergy in whom he had most confidence He summons a Councell Royall dissolues his Army which fought not a stroke for him examined racked and tortured many of his chiefe Captaines executes confiscates destroyes their Race and Families takes order for clensing repayring and replenishing Musco In the midst of this Parliament Chigaly Mursoy sends an Embassadour attended with many Mursoys in their account Noblemen all well horsed clothed in sheepes skinne Coats girt to them with blacke Caps of the same hauing Bowes and Arrowes with curious Cymitars by their sides They had a Guard to keepe them in darke Roomes stinking Horse flesh and water was their best dyet without Bread Beere Bed or Candle At the time of their audience bad vsage was offered them which they puffed at and scorned The Emperour sate with his three Crownes before him in great Royalty his Princes and Nobles attending richly adorned with Iewels and Pearle He commanded the Embassadors sheepe skinne Coate and Cap to be taken off and a Golden Robe and rich Cap to be put on who laughed aloud thereat enters the Emperours presence his followers being kept backe in a space grated with Iron The Embassadour chases with a hollow hellish voyce looking fierce and grimly on the Emperour beeing otherwise a most vgly Creature Foure Captaines of the Guard bring him neere His seate and then without reuerence he thunders out that his Master and Lord Chigaley great Emperour of all the Kingdomes and Chams that the Sunne doth spread his beames ouer hath sent to him Iuan Vassilliwich his Vassall and great Duke ouer all Russia by his permission to know how he liked the scourge of his displeasure by sword fire and famine and withall had sent him for remedie a present of his indignation pulling out a foule rustie Knife to cut his throat with all This done hee hasted out of the Roome without answere They would haue taken off his golden Gowne and Cap but he and his company stroue with them and would not permit it The Emperour fell into an agony tore his haire and beard sent for his Ghostly Father The chiefe Captaine desired leaue to cut them all in pieces but he gaue no answere After he had detayned him some time his fury being alayed he sent him away with better vsage and this Message Tell the Merchant and vnbeleeuer thy Master it is not he it is my sinnes and the sinnes of my people against my God and Christ he it is that hath giuen him a limme of the Deuill this power and oportunitie to to be the instrument of my rebuke by whose pleasure and helpe I doubt not of reuenge and to make him my Vassall though he be now but a Runnegate and hath no place of abode to be found out in Hee answered he would not doe him so much seruice to speake so arrogant a message from him Wherevpon not long after hee did addresse a Noble Gentleman Alfonasy Phedorowicz Nagoy in that Embassie who was there detayned and indured much misery for seuen yeeres space The Emperour was loth to come to Musco but sent for the chiefe Merchants Handicrafts and Tradesmen from all other Cities and Townes within his Kingdome to build and inhabit there and further to draw Trafficke thither tooke away all Impositions and granted freedome of Customes set seuen thousand Masons and Workmen to build a faire stone Wall round about the Musco which was finished in fiue yeeres space strong and beautifull and furnished with faire brasse Ordenance he also setled his Offices and Officers of Iustice therein as before Himselfe kept much at Vologda on the Riuer Dwina the Centre and safest place of his Kingdome He conferred much with one Elesius Bomelius a Mathematician comne out of England He also sent for skilfull Architects Carpenters Ioyners Masons Goldsmiths Physicians Apothecaries and such like out of England He builds a Treasure-house of stone great Barkes and Barges to conuey and transport Treasure vpon any sudden occasion to Sollauetzcoy Monastery standing on the North Sea the direct way to England Hee fleeced his Merchants by taking their Commodities to exchange with Merchant Strangers for Gold Dollers Iewels and Pearles which he tooke into his Treasury paying little or nothing hee borrowed great summes of Cities Townes and Monasteries exhausting all their wealth by great Impositions and Customes to augment his owne Treasure which he neuer would diminish vpon any occasion whatsoeuer whereby hee became so odious that in a desperate resolution he deuised to preuent and alter his estate to annull and frustrate all these ingagements of his Crowne He made a diuision of his Subiects calling the one Oproswy and the other Soniscoy

vnto his Treasury besides the resignation of many Precincts Townes Lands Villages and Royalties at lest as much more worth to dispose of though with great grudge to the discontented Nobles whose Houses were thereby made to serue his turne in all his designes Here hath hee raysed a new treasure without diminishing any part of his old being most prepared for England But neyther his Embassadour Andrew Sauen nor Master Authenie Ienkinson did so thorowly expresse his minde being darkely and cautelously made knowne to them or else Queene Elizabeth would not apprehend the message But this secrecy notwithstanding his eldest Sonne and Fauourites tooke knowledge of it which bred such iealousie in the Emperour that he was faine to dissemble his affection and couer his purpose therein with a new Marriage at home one Feodor Nagois daughter a Subiect of his owne by whom afterwards he had a third Sonne called Demetrius He spends now his time in pacifying his discontented Nobility and people kept two Armies on foot with small charge his Princes and Nobles going most on their owne charge the Gentlemen and Sinobarskeys hauing portions of Money Corne and Land certayne Reuenewes being put a part for that purpose besides Escheats Robberies and Customes payed them whether they goe to warre or no without diminution of his Crowne Reuenew or great standing Treasure The one Army consisted most of Tartars employed against the Pole and Sweden which sought to recouer Liuonia The other Army consisted commonly of 100000. Horse most his owne Subiects some few Poles Swedens Dutch and Scots employed against the Crimme which commonly doth not last aboue three moneths May Iune and Iuly euery yeere His Tartars notwithstanding King Stephins preuayling bring away many Captiues out of Liefland the fruitfullest Land in all the East flowing with Milke and Honey the fairest women and best conditioned people in the World to conuerse and commerce with but giuen much to Luxury Idlenesse and Pleasure for which sinnes they themselues say that God hath thus plagued and rooted them out and planted Strangers in their Countrey It was my fortune by speciall fauour to buy and redeeme diuers men women and children of these Captiues for small summes of money some being Merchants of good quality and got leaue to conuay some to Liefland againe some to England some to Hamborow and Lubeck Amongst them were taken some Dutch French Scots and English which had serued vnder Pontus a French Captain who were placed about the Suburbs of the Musco by my mediation had leaue to build a Church I contributed well thereto and got them a Learned Minister their Assembly were at least two thousand euery Sunday their Rites after the Lutherane fashion Of these eighty fiue were Scots Souldiers left of seuen hundred sent from Stockholme and three English in their company I got them well housed at Boluan neere the Mosco I appeased the Emperours fury against them causing to be told him the difference of these remote Aduenturers ready to serue any Christian Prince for pay and the Natiue Swedens and that they would be of good vse against the Crimme Tartar Some vse was after made of my aduice and 1200. of them did better seruice against the Tartar then 12000. Russes with their short Bowes and Arrowes The Tartars not knowing before the vse of Pistols were strucke dead off their Horses with shot they saw not and cryed away with those new Deuils that come with their thundring puffs of fire whereat the Emperor laughed and wished for more of them and they had Pensions and Lands allowed and married with the Liuonian women increased into Families I was glad hee tooke no notice of the English which might haue yeelded him an opportune quarrell to my selfe and to the Merchants goods in his Countrey worth 100000. Markes A little before hee had sold Master Thomas Glouer a chiefe Agent for the English Company a Wife borne of a Noble House in Poland Basmanaua taken Captiue with her Sister at Pollotzca for 10000. Hungarian Duckets in Gold and yet shortly after on displeasure tooke from him 16000. pounds more in Cloth Silkes and other merchandise and sent him with his Wife empty out of his Land The Emperour expecting some returne and answer of his Letters out of England the Queene addressed one Daniel Syluester there with who arriued at Saint Nicholas past vp to Colmogro and there making Clothes for his passing vp to the Emperour whiles the Taylor was putting on him his new Sute in the English house a Thunderbolt strooke him dead piercing downe his necke and coller in the inside of his new Coat not outwardly seene A flash of Lightning killed also his Boy and Dogge by him burnt his Deske Letters and the House at that instant at which newes the Emperour much perplexed said Gods will bee done But raging and in desperate case his Enemies besetting three parts of his Countrey the Pole and Sweden Eastward and Crimme Southward King Stephen threatning also shortly to visit the Mosco He made preparation but pretending that he could no way he furnished of Powder Salt-peeter Lead and Brimstone the Narue being shut but out of England hee sent for me and told me he had a message of honour weight and secresie to employ me in to the Queenes Maiesty Perceiuing that I had attayned the familiar knowledge of his Language the Polish and Dutch Tongues be questioned me of diuers things liked my answere asked if I had seene his great Vessels at Vologda I told him I had What Traytor hath shewed them you I ventured in company of thousands more I said to behold their beauty c. He said You shall see double the number ere long but much more to bee admired if you knew what inestimable treasure they are inwardly to be beautified with It is reported that your Queene my Sister hath the best Nauy of Ships in the World It is true said I and entred into a large discourse and description of them He gaue me charge to prepare my selfe and to be silent and secret and to attend euery day till he were prepared for my dispatch he commanded his Secretary to take in writing of me a description of the Queenes Nauy Royall to which I added the Picture of a Ship with all her glorious and Martiall accoultrements About this time the Emperour was much busied in searching out a Treason against him plotted by Bomelius and the Archbishop of Nouogrod with some others discouered by their Seruants on the Racke Letters sent in Cyphers three sundry wayes to Swethen and Poland The Bishop confessed all and Bomelius denyed all But being racked his backe and body cut with wyre whips he confessed more then the Examiners were willing the Emperour should know He sent word they should roast him being taken from the Pudkie and bound to a wooden Spit which being done till they thought no life left they brought him in a Sled thorow the Castle

the Emperours only Vnkle trusted in the third place for the gouernment in the old Emperours Will with Boris who could indure no Competitor two prime Princes made away was bewitched his speech taken suddenly from him I came to visit him hee set pen to paper and writ that hee was bewitched and by whom and should not liue The Protector told me also that Mekita Romanowich was not like to disturbe him long He dyed soone after and the silly Emperour his Nephew fearing his turne next desired he might be shorne a Fryer That Nobleman left three Sonnes of great hope Feodor the eldest for whom I had made aswell as I could a kind of Latine Grammer in the Sclauonian Tongue and Letters He was now enforced to marry and had a Sonne The Protector being iealous of him hee also not long after his Fathers death was made dead to the World and shorne a Fryer made Archbishop of Rostoua His next Brother of no lesse generous spirit not able to dissemble his discontents longer tooke opportunitie to stab the Protector though not so dangerously as hee intended and escaped into Poland where hee and Bodan Belscoy and others at home practised the vtter ruine of Boris and all his Family Meane while I procured many Priuiledges for the English Merchants with Releases Payments Ratifications c. The Protector iealous and fearefull sends Treasure Siluer and Gold Coyne to Sollauetzca Monastery on the Sea side neere the Davish and Swethen Confines that it might be ready as himselfe told me to transport into England holding that his surest refuge in case of necessity It was of infinite value and not pertayning to the Crowne I was now suspected by the discontented Nobility who shewed me not wonted countenance which caused mee to haste away hauing speeded my businesse and Instructions from the Counsell and Merchants Rich Presents were sent from the Emperour for the Queene and Boris sent with secret messages a curious Robe for me of Cloth of Siluer wrought without seame made in Persia with a faire imbroydered Tent wrought Handkerchiefes Shires Towels c. brought by his neere Kinsman I intreatell two fauours for a farwell the freedome of the Liuonian men women and children sent before to Nonogrod in displeasure a Catalogue of their names were taken and they freed by the Letter of Irenia the Empresse the other was the liberty of a Noblemans Sonne of Gilderland Here Sacarius Gilfenberg which neyther the King of Denmarks nor States Letters could before procure which his Mother well recompensed After rich allowance by the way honourably attended and ample prouisions added at Saint Nicolas I was shipped in the Centurion and after fiue weekes arriued in England at P●e●imond had audience of the Queene deliuered the Emperours Letters and Merchants Priuiledges with Golden Spread-eagle Seales at them and account of my whole employment to her good satisfaction and approbation of me Shee obserued the Characters by the affinitie they had with the Greeke and asked if they had not such and such significations said shee could quickly learne it and bade my Lord of Ess learne it When the Ships with the Presents were comne I had a second audience her Maiestie much liking to handle the Presents After this I weary of Court Holy-water was willing to retire my selfe to a priuate life but by reason of my skill in those Languages a more dangerous employment was committed to me Frederike King of Denmarke had embarqued the English Merchants Ships in the Sound about Customes and they sued to the Queene for redresse likewise diuers in Poland which there had obtayned Priuiledges and Protection had refused to pay Debts to the English Merchants c. I was appointed to take Collen in the way where the Imperiall Dyee was appointed thither to accompany Sir Heratio Palauicine the Queenes Embassadour and Monsieur de Freze the French Kings Embassadour and thence I to the Dane and the Pole I came to Copenhagen had accesse to the King of Denmarke deliuered the Queenes Letters and after had audience and propounded what was giuen me in Commission The King of Denmarke answered with a sad countenance Our Sister the Queenes Maiestie of England requires at our hands too great a losse wee are possessed of forty thousand pounds and twenty tall Ships forfeited to our Crowne by the treachery and falshood of her Subiects c. But in fine he made his minde knowne to the Queene by his Letters requiring an exchange of certayne Ships of the Easterlings embarked in England for the freedome of the English Ships and goods This was beyond my Commission to conclude And I hasted away hauing dined with the King who bestowed on mee a Gold Chaine I returned to Lubek and thence to Danzik where Master Barker Deputy and other substantiall Merchants inuited my way by Meluin where they resided But I tooke my way by Torne and came to Warsonia where Sigismundus King of Poland then held his Court and after some disgusts at last obtained the Merchants Suite against diuers Debters which had their sought protection The great Chancelor Zameitscoy the principall Statesman of that Kingdome sent vnto me a friendly message offering also for my solace his Hounds Hawkes or any other pastimes for recreation I was inuited and dined with the King receiued his Letters Patents and Dismission and after feasted by the Lord High Chamberlaine Pan Lucas Obrosemone I also had sight of Queene Anne daughter to Sigismund the Third and Wife to King Stephen Batore but priuately hauing to that end put on one of my Seruants Liueries which notwithstanding I was discouered and had conference with the Queene who seemed much to magnifie Queene Marie and no lesse disaffected to Queene Elizabeth for the death of Storie Campion c. which I sayd had beene vnnaturall Subiects and practisers of Rebellion Shee then obiected But how could she spill the bloud of the Lords Anoynted a better Queene c. which I answered was done by the Parliament without her Royall consent She shooke her head with dislike and would haue replyed had not Posseuine the Popes Legate as they termed him whose skirts I had before pressed in Musco being there the Popes Nuncio comne in wherevpon I with a Glasse of Hungarian Wine which I refused till she had taken the same into her owne hand was dismissed On that Euening in which I departed from Warsonia I passed ouer a Riuer by the side whereof there lay a dead Serpent like a Crocodile with foure feet hard skales and in length about six or seuen foot which my men brake with Boare-speares the stench whereof so poysoned me that I lay sicke many dayes in the next Village When I came to Vilna the chiefe Citie in Lituania I presented my selfe and my Letters Patents from the Queene which declared my employment vnto the Great Duke Ragauil a powerfull Prince and Religious Protestant Hee gaue me great respect and sayd Though I had