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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85072	A brief historical relation of the empire of Russia, and of its original growth out of 24 great dukedomes, into one entire empire, since the yeer 1514. Humbly presented to the view and serious perusal of all true-hearted English-men, that love and honour the peace and happiness of this their native country. / By J.F.	J. F.	1654 (1654)	Wing F28; Thomason E1485_2; ESTC R22889	20,403	58

This will assuredly bring glory to God honour to his Highness and tranquillity to the Nation it will enforce as in other Countries honesty and plain-dealing from all men and all Petifogging deceitful subtil oppressive persons now shrowded under the Norman Law will vanish and the words Peace Quietness and Industry will be written over every mans door Such noble acts will revive the memory of Alfred that just king of England who punished and hanged Four and fourty County-Judges in one yeer for oppressing the people by false Judgement and of Edward the fourth who caused Fifteen Gaolers to be hanged in one yeer for exacting money from prisoners and defrauding them of the King's allowance of 4 d. per diem And of Henry the fourth who caused Two and twenty Projectors and six Aldermen of London to be hanged at the then-place of Execution within London-walls and buried under the Gallows where since the Church is built and the place called Alderman-bury to this day It was the usual saying of that famous and just Emperour Borice That Prince or Ruler is most happie and safe that liveth least to himself and most to the honour of God and the peoples good over whom God hath placed him and whose legal and just power is the bounds of his will whose olive-branch of wisdom springeth from his heart bloometh on his tongue and beareth fruit in his actions which will always direct him not to refuse counsel good cheap lest remiss security cause him to buy repentance too dear Thus having through my real hearty affection and well-wishes to his Highness well-being and love to my Countries freedom peace and tranquillity digressed from my intended Historical Subject and being desirous not to weary the Reader but to draw to an end I do again in the close become a most humble and earnest suitor to his Higness in the name and by the mercies of Jesus Christ to let judgement run down as water and justice as a mighty stream that so Mercy may embrace him on every side and cause him to continue in assured love and favour both with God and man enjoying the good things of this Land in peace internal and external with abundance of glory to God and honour to himself and posterity Not giving ear to the feigned words of some self-seeking persons who having a shew of godliness yet deny the power thereof do Babel-like endeavour to rear up to themselves everlasting tabernacles and cry out The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord The Law the Law Whereas the true Temple of the Lord is this To amend their covetous ways and their unjust oppressive doings To execute judgement between a man and his neighbour and not to oppress the poor the widow the fatherless nor the stranger but to let all the oppressed enslaved go free Nor to think by tything Mint and Cummin to fulfil the law of God as those several hypocrites the Doctors Lawyers Scribes and Pharisees did against whom in stead of a blessing there stands upon record for ever sundry terrible Woes denounced by him who is King of kings and Lord of life and glory and who assuredly will by the sacred Rule of impartial justice judge them according to their works There is a Word which is clothed with death the Lord grant it be not found in the heritage of Jacob. Sometimes to abide in the shade produceth more quiet to a poor man then to have the bright beams of the Princes favour to break forth upon him for then Malice is forthwith enraged Wrath like a Fury assaulteth and Revenge like a Crocodile when seeming to weep over him destroys him most in his credit life and good name never ceasing both by himself and all those by him seasoned for his ends to traduce and backbite him daily thereby rendering him odious to the best of men Like those subtil Serpentine generation of men who by lyes and slanders and by the power of some by them then seasoned for the work defrauded me of my right which by his Highness favour was most freely conferred on me and who also since have notceased to traduce backbite and slander me to those in high place and Authority hoping thereby to make their deeds of darkness to resemble the light and truth in the fight of his Highness and others But to all such shadows of Christians I shall say but this That their Consciences if they have any cannot but testifie to their faces that they have done me much wrong The Lord rebuke them for it And this I was told long since that if his Highness had not appeared so vigorously for me in that and another business since that I had neither undergone those calumnies and reproaches nor had my endeavours proved so fruitless as hitherto they have done to me This duely weighed it cannot but be positively concluded That although those slanderous and reproachful arrows were shot at the lowe shrub yet the venome of them was intended to hit the tall Cedar which by his branches of favour was pleased to shelter the lowe shrub For at that very instant time the better to set a face of credit upon their slanders and to carry on their designe of defeating me of my right they by their instruments divulged it abroad in the City and to divers Parliament-men that I had forswore my self three times in one day before his Highness and the Councel and that they had adjudged me to stand in the Pillory at the Exchange This was related with such a face of truth as that divers of my friends were happily deceived in going to the Exchange to be spectators of it Whereas the real truth is that I was never called before his Highness nor Councel to swear at any time for any matter cause or thing whatsoever for the truth whereof I humbly appeal to his Highness and to the honorable Councel most humbly praying for justice on these traducers and satisfaction for these injuries most wrongfully sustained But not resting in the centre of these their calumnies they or their instruments do still persist by under-hand plottings to accomplish my destruction and by raising of a lye against me rob me of my livelyhood and at the same time in a most secret manner spread a rumour in the City that I should conspire against my Lord Protector 's life A thing so horrid so detestable to my soul and so far from the thoughts of my heart as the Crystalline Sphere can possibly be in distance from the earth And this clearly appeareth by my constancie from the beginning to the cause of God faithfulness to his Highness and services performed for the State The first was my discovery of the late King's intention to surprise Hull and Plymouth by private Letters sent out of Holland to Sir Harbottle Grimston and Mr. Samuel Vassel then members of Parliament by means whereof the Parliament and Nation were preserved from the universal ruine determined in 1641. The second was my discovery

intituled themselves Ros-seyans which signifieth A people sown abroad upon the face of the earth The people in process of time divided themselves into four and twenty several Dukedoms and so continued until the yeer 1514. At which time John Bazilious Chercaskee the then-Duke of Volodeemer most subtilly contrived and raised a discord amongst all the Dukes of Russia by means whereof they having weakned and destroyed one another the said John Bazilious within very few yeers gained the Conquest of them all together with the Kingdoms of Cazan Astrachan Chorelia and Sibiria and uniting them into one entire Empire he was in the yeer 1524 declared and crowned Emperour of Russa placing his Imperial Throne in the City of Mosco the then-chief City of the Dukedom of Moscovia where it remaineth to this day In his days the Cham of the grim Tartars invaded Russa with an Army of Four hundred thousand men besieged the Imperial City of Mosco some three months burnt and spoiled all the Country many hundred miles in compass and upon his departure he required Homage of the Emperour which was That the Emperor of Russia should come forth of the City of Mosco on foot attended by his Princes and Nobles of Russia bare-headed and that the Emperour should then bring Oats in his Cap and present them to the Cham of Tartary his horse he himself then sitting upon his horse-back and to feed the horse out of his Cap All which for the saving of the lives of many thousands of his people and utter devastation of his Empire the Emperour performed feeding the great Cham of Tartary's horse with Oats out of his own Cap or Colpack This Homage being performed the Cham of Tartary stroaked the Emperour of Russia three times on the face and beard presented him with a Cymiter and a Bowe and Case of Arrows and so departed carrying many thousands captive This John Bazilious the Emperour towards his latter days grew a mighty Tyrant delighting much in blood causing many of his Nobles on the least occasion to 〈◊〉 themselves upon their own swords to 〈◊〉 thrown alive unto Bears Wolves and Lions some he caused both men and women to be tyed to spits and rosted alive till they died some to be torn asunder by horses and many other unexpressible inhumane cruelties were by him practised who after he had like a second Herod reigned 35 yeers being very aged he died of a Dropsie at which time there was a Note of the names of seventeen persons under his pillow A Note sound of 17 persons by him appointed for death appointed to die To him succeeded his son Theodor who being of a shallow capacity and from his youth addicted to blinde devotion and ringing of bells did thereby neglect the great affairs of the Empire whereby the people though acquitted from his father the Tyrant yet their burthens of Contention and Oppression by his folly increased They then by and upon their humble Petition to the Emperour and by his consent and permission chose the then-Lord General of the Imperial Army Borice Feodorowick Godoonove Lord Protector of the Empire who though illiterate was a man endowed with many excellent natural parts being of a deep judgement a strong memory and of a discerning spirit endowed with much sageness being also a great lover of Justice the last of these crowned all the rest of his vertues raising him high in the hearty affections of the people so that to this day his fame rings thorow all that vast Empire like that of Queen Elizabeth in this Nation By him were all their exorbitant abuses of their Law regulated and brought to their pristine condition all the Provincial Vayvodes and Chancellors were for acts of injustice and oppression severely punished in their persons and by their estates compelled to yeeld satisfaction to all parties by them wronged by false Judgement Note this well The long-usurped power of all the Arch-bishops Bishops Priests and Friers in Secular affairs quite extinguished And by fear and terrour of punishment without respect of persons Justice in its purity was compelled from the corruptest persons in Authority which forced also the greatest refractory persons formerly in power to vail and crouch before the Lord Protector seeing the peoples affections thereby become as a wall of brass for his safety and preservation from their secret plottings of his destruction by shooting their secret arrows of detraction abroad to his defamation for which many of them not long after by his impartial hand of Justice were made exemplary Thus after the Emperour Theodor had possessed the Imperial Diademe 15 yeers he died in the Imperial Palace at Mosco 1566. At which time the Lord Protector Borice retiring to the Maiden Monastery seemed to resolve the leading of a Monastick life and to wave the Government of that great Empire which occasioned his secret enemies though before seeming friends to display their Banners of reviling speeches against him endeavouring both by themselves and their instruments to render him odious to the people Yea many of his own servants appeared then in their colours which afterwards caused many of their heads to cleave to the block For the Souldiery over whom he still remained as Lord General during the time of his Protectorship and the Commonalty whose affections he had gained by acts of Justice and Mercy exercised by him without fear or flattery did all unanimously make their repair to him to the said Maiden Monastery and there openly declaring his Paternal care and prudential disposing of the affairs of that vast Empire with all the several conquered parts thereof in the days of their late Emperour Theodor Evanowiche did press upon him the acceptance of the Imperial Diademe Upon whose acceptation they forthwith declared him for their Emperour and soon after his repair to the Imperial Palace he was with very great magnificence and acclamation of the people crowned Emperour of Russia being a Gentleman of an humble spirit constant in his resolutions and carried always an open ear to the complaints of all poor and oppressed persons doing them speedy justice His custom was to sit three days in the fore-noons with his Privie Councel and in the afternoons to hear and answer Petitions causing his Orders and References always to be drawn up in his own presence punishing all Chancellors and other Officers for their corrupt and partial dealing and for their slighting of his Decrees and falsifying of his Orders and References He also called all the Provincial Judges and Chancellors to a strict account yeerly and most impartially heard all mens complaints against them and such as were found corrupt and faulty he punished severely in their persons and by their estates compelled them to give full satisfaction to all persons by them wronged in Judgment or any ways oppressed or defrauded He carried also a vigilant eye over all the Lords of his Privie Councel so that none of them durst tread out of the path of Impartial Justice either for