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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

knowne and honourably entertayned I had now gotten foure or fiue Seruants Dutch and English The Burgomasters sent mee a Present of Fish Flesh and Wines taking notice of the fauours I had done to them and theirs diuers came with thankfull acknowledgement of their Redemption by my meanes and Purse from Moscouite and Tartarian Captiuity and presented me with a Boll couer guilt in it Ricks Dollers and Hungarian Duckets which Coyne I returned againe They brought mee their Towne Booke and prayed mee to write my Name and place of Birth and abode that they and their Posteritie might honour my Name in Record for euer At Hamburgh likewise they for like cause presented me their thankes and Present and the Burgomasters feasted me I landed at Harwich opened my Aquauitae Bottle which had beene girt close vnder my Caffocke by day and my best Pillow by night and tooke thence the Emperours Letters which I sweetned aswell as I could But yet the Queene smelt the Aquauitae-sauour I had accesse three or foure seuerall times and some discourse by meanes of my Lord Treasurer Sir Francis Walsingham and some honourable countenance of my Lord of Leister by Sir Edward Horsey my Kinsman his meanes I was well entertayned by the Muscouie Company to whom the Queene had giuen command to prepare those things for which the Emperour had giuen directions With which and her Maiesties Letters gracious fauour sworne her Seruant Esquire of the Body giuing me her Picture Hand to kisse I departed in company of twelue tall Ships Wee met with the King of Denmarke his Fleet of Shippes and Gallies neere the North Cape fought with them and put them to the worst and after arriued at S. Nicolas I posted ouer Vaga and came to Slobida Alexandrisca where I deliuered the Queenes Letters to the Emperour with her pleasure by word of mouth short of his expectation He commanded my silence commended my speed and businesse done for him gaue me allowanances and promised his goodnesse for recompence of my seruice He commanded also that those Commodities should be brought vp to the Musco and receiued into his Treasury viz. Copper Lead Powder Salt-peeter Brimstone c. to the value of 9000. pounds and ready mony payd for them He came to the Citie of Musco and cast his displeasure vpon some Grandes hee sent a Parasite of his with 200. Gunners to rob his Brother in Law Mekita Romanowich our next Neighbour which tooke from him all his Armour Horses Plate Mony Lands and Goods to the value of 100000. Marks sterling He sent the next day to the English House for as much course Cotton as would make himselfe and his children Gownes to couer them The Emperour sent likewise Simon Nagoy another of his Instruments to squeeze or spunge Andrew Shalkan a great bribing Officer who brought his faire young Wife Solumaneda out of her Chamber defiled her cut and gashed her naked backe with his Cemitar killed his trusty Seruant Iuan Lottish tooke all his Horses Goods and Lands and beat out of his shinnes 10000. Robles or Markes sterling in mony At that time did the Emperour also conceiue displeasure against the Dutchmen and Liuonians before mentioned to whom a Church and libertie of Religion had beene giuen by my meanes and appointed certaine Captaines with 2000. Gunners in the night to take the spoile of all they had who stripped them naked rauished and defloured the women and virgins carrying away diuers of the youngest and fairest to serue their lusts Some escaping came to the English house where they were cloathed and relieued not without danger of displeasure amongst whom was that daughter of the Gouernour of Osell in Liefland commended to my fauour whose freedome I also afterwards procured and conueyed her to her father His crueltie grew now ripe for vengeance and hee not long after falling out with his eldest Sonne for his commiseration to those distressed Christians and for greeuing at his Vnkles wrongs iealous also of the peoples affection to him gaue him a boxe on the eare as it was tearmed which he tooke so tenderly that hee fell into a burning Feuer and in three dayes departed this life Whereat the Emperour tore his haire and beard like a mad man lamenting too late for that irrecouerable losse not to himselfe so much as to the Empire whose hopes were buried with him being a wise milde and worthy Prince of three and twenty yeeres Hee was buried in Michala Archangell Church in the Musco with Iewels and Riches put in his Tombe valued at 50000. pounds watched after by twelue Citizens in course euery night deuoted to his Saint Iohn and Michael to keepe both body and Treasure till his Resurrection Now was the Emperour more earnest to send into England about his long conceited match his second Sonne being weake of wit and body without hope of ability for gouernment and the third not only young but disallowed in Sanctitie and according to the fundamentall Lawes illegitimate borne out of Wedlocke of the fift vnlawfull Wife not solemnised with the Rites of their Church but in the Church-yard by a depriued and excommunicated Prelate in which respect neyther she nor her Issue were capeable of the Crowne The Emperour peruseth the Queenes last Letters and addresseth one of his trustiest Seruants in Embassage Theodore Pissempskeie a wise Nobleman about the Lady Mary Hastings aforesaid and that her Maiesty would bee pleased to send some Noble Embassadour to treate with him therein This Embassadour tooke shipping at Saint Nicolas and arriuing in England was magnificently entertayned and admitted audience Her Maiesty caused that Lady to bee attended with diuers Ladies and young Noblemen that so the Embassadour might haue a sight of her which was accomplished in Yorke House Garden There was he attended also with diuers men of quality brought before her and casting downe his countenance fell prostrate before her and rising ranne backe with his face still towards her The Lady with the rest admiring at this strange salutation hee sayd by an Interpreter it sufficed him to behold the Angelicall presence of her which hee hoped should bee his Masters Spouse and Empresse seeming rauished with her Angelicall countenance state and beauty Shee was after that by her familiar friends in Court called Empresse of Mosconia Sir William Russell third Sonne to the Earle of Bedford a wise and comely Gentleman was appointed her Maiesties Ambassadour to the Moscoune but hee and his Friends considering of the businesse and not so forward thereto the Company of Merchants intreated for Sir Ierome Bowes mooued theretowith his presence and tall person He was well set forth most at their charge and with the Russian Embassadour arriued at S. Nicolas The Emperours Ambassadour posted ouer land and deliuered his Letters with the accounts of his Embassage which was ioyfully accepted Sir I. B. passed slowly vp the Dwina 1000. miles to Vologda The Emperour sends a Pensioner Michael Preterpopoue

where on the weeke dayes they cannot haue occasion or company for publique prayers therfore if they read only the Seruice on holy dayes and neuer studie for more which I would it were not the idle practise of some euen the Heathen shall rise vp in iudgement against them I subscribe with hand and practice to our Liturgie but not to such Lethargie whose darkenesse is so much the more intollerable in this Sun-shine of the Gospell wherein wee haue a gracious King so diligent a frequenter of Sermons and Reuerend Bishops notwithstanding other their weighty Ecclesiasticall employments yet diligent Preachers The studious of Geographie may somewhat be helped in that kinde not that we intend an exact Geographie in mentioning euery Citie with the degrees of Longitude and Latitude but yet limiting euery Countrie in his true situation and bounds and performing happily more then some which take vpon them the title of Geographers as their chiefe profession and more then any which I know hath done in our language He which admireth and almost adoreth the Capuchine Iesuite or other Romanists for selfe-inflicted whippings fastings watchings vowes of obedience pouertie and single life and their not sparing their limmes and liues for their will-worships may see in all these the Romanists equalled by Heathens if not out-stripped euen by the reports of the Iesuites and other their Catholiques Bodily exercise profiteth little but Godlinesse is profitable vnto all and hath the promise of this life and that which is to come Here also the Reader may see most of their Popish Rites deriued out of Chaldean Egyptian and other Fountaines of Paganisme as in the later taske we shall haue more occasion to shew Heere euery English man may see cause to praise God continually for the light of his truth communicated to vs whereas it is in comparison but a small part of the World that soundeth the sacred name of Iesus and of those that professe it how infinit are the sects and superstitions God hath shewed his Word vnto our IACOB THE DEFENDER OF HIS FAITH his Statutes and his Iudgements vnto this ISRAEL of Great Brittaine Hee hath not dealt so with euery Nation neither haue the Heathen nor scarcely if scarcely any other Christian Nation so much knowledge of his iudgements And yet how seditious are some how prophane are others how vnthankfull the most That beastly Sinne of Drunkennesse that biting Sinne of Vsurie that Deuillish Sinne of Swaggering ruffling in deformitie of clothes like monstrous Chimaeras and barking out a multiformitie of oathes like hellish Cerberi as if men could not be Gallants vnlesse they turned Deuils These are the paiments wee returne vnto the Lord in stead of prayers for and loyaltie to his Maiestie peaceablenesse and charitie to each others modestie and sobrietie in our selues For the forme I haue sought in some places with varietie of phrase in all with varietie of matter to draw thee along with mee in this tedious Pilgrimage Some names are written diuersly according to the differing Copies which I followed which thy discretion will easily conceiue I doe not in euery question set downe my censure sometimes because it were more then needes sometimes because of the difficultie I mention Authors sometimes of meane quality for the meanest haue sence to obserue that which themselues see more certainly then the contemplations and Theorie of the more learned I would also acknowledge the labour of the meanest I haue laboured to reduce Relations to their first Authors setting their names to their Allegations the want whereof hath much troubled mee whilst the most leaue out their Authors as if their owne assertion were sufficient authoritie in things borrowed I haue to my great paines contracted and Epitomized whole Volumes and some very large into one Chapter a thing vsuall through these Relations Where I haue found plentifull discourse for Religion my chiefe aime I am shorter in other Relations and where I haue had lesse helpes for that discouerie I insist more on the wonders of Nature and discoueries by Sea and Land with other remarkeable accidents These Rarities of Nature I haue sometimes suted in a differing phrase and figure of speech not that I affect a fantasticall singularitie but that these Diuine workes might appeare in Robes if not fitting their Maiestie yet such as our Word-Robe did willingly without any great affectation or studie affoord not without example of the Scripture which vseth to bring in the mute Creatures speaking and performing as it were other personall offices nor without this effect to make the Reader stay a while with obseruation and wonder besides that variety of it selfe is delightsome If any mislike the fulnesse in some places and the barrennesse of words in others let them consider we handle a World where are Mountaines and Vallies fertile habitations and sandy desarts and others steps whom I follow hold me sometimes in a narrower way which elsewhere take more libertie I touch here and there a Controuersie both for illustration of Historie and in season and out of season to shew my affectation to the Truth Now if any man thinke that it were better these rotten bones of the passed and stinking bodies of the Present superstitions were buried then thus raked out of their graues besides that which hath beene said I answere That I haue sufficient example in the Scriptures which were written for our learning to the ends of the World and yet depaint vnto vs the vgly face of Idolatry in so many Countries of the Heathens with the Apostasies Sects and Heresies of the Iewes as in our first and second booke is shewed and the Ancient Fathers also Iustin Tertullian Clemens Irenaeus Origen and more fully Eusebius Epiphanius Philastrius and Augustine haue gone before vs in their large Catalogues of Heresies and false Opinions I appeale vnto any indifferent Reader for some not Readers nor indifferent I respect not whose Authoritie perhaps would be but indifferent if they must first win it by being Authors of so big I dare not say so great volumes if there be any either Idolatries or other impieties in this worke of m●ne expressed beyond theirs which heere out of the Scriptures are mentioned Stewes in the Temple humane Sacrifices to Moloch Tamuz his mourning Sodomites Incests with other fleshly worldly beastly Deuillish monst●●s of iniquitie obtruded vnder Religions Sacred Mantle amongst the Amorites Egyptians and Iewes before the comming of Christ or greater darkenesse and more hellish then when the Light it selfe was made manifest and the Darknesse comprehended it not Herods butcheries Iudas his treacherie the blasphemies of the Scribes Priests and Pharises and the crucifying of the Sonne of God by men for men or since if as stinking loathsome monstrous abuses haue 〈◊〉 beene offered to the Christian Name in worse impostures and pollutions by the Nicholaitans and other incarnat Deuils recorded by those Fathers and other Ecclesiasticall Authors then any of those heere in this booke obserued to which if that which

of his late Father Iuan Vasilowich of famous memory who thought good out of his tender care of peace to make knowne to their Princely wisdomes how desirous he was of their aliance and brotherly amity promising all correspondence trade and commerce with them and theirs Letters also and Commissions to treate of such other matters as fell properly in question for the good of both sides I was dispatched with extraordinary grace termes and titles from the Emperour but especially from the Protector in priuate and publike and with Instructions and Commissions apart Hauing taken my leaue of the principall Princes and Officers I set forth well attended and accommodated in the reputation of an Embassadour wheresoeuer I came My iourney was ouer-land from Musco the twentieth of August sixe hundred miles to Vobsee and thence to Dorp in Liefland Perno Libo Wendon in Curland and so to Riga chiefe Citie of that Prouince where my Commission was to treat with Queene Magnus the next heire to the Russian Crowne she being now in great distresse and hauing small allowance issuing from the Crowne treasure of Poland She was kept in the Castle of Riga whereby leaue of the Cardinall Ragauile very hardly obtayned I spake with her found her dressing her daughters head both of them in old Garments of cloth of Siluer I told her her Brother so Cousin Germans call the Emperour Feodor had taken notice of the distresse wherein she and her daughter liued and desired her returne into her natiue Countrey there to hold her estate according to her birth And the Lord Protector Boris Fedorowich with due remembrance of his seruice doth vow the performance of the same I was interrupted and hasted away by the Lieutenant and got leaue a second time Shee complained of her small allowance not a thousand Dollers a yeere which I said she might remedy if she pleased Shee said she had no meanes to escape the King and State minding to make vse of her birth and bloud knowing their fashion in Russia she had small hope there to be otherwise dealt with then they vse to doe with their Queene Widowes which is to shut them vp in a Hellish Cloyster to which I preferre death I answered her case was different and times had altered that course none that hath a child being thereunto enforced After other words and promise of meanes to effect her escape within two moneths I left with her a hundred Hungarian Duckets and your Grace said I shall receiue foure hundred more this day seuen weekes or thereabout Her Highnesse receiued them very thankfully and her daughter then ten yeeres old twenty more and I tooke my leaue The next day as I passed out of the Towne Gates a Gentlewomanlike Mayden in her pleyted haire presented me a curious white wrought Handkerchiefe in the corner whereof was a little Hoop-ring set with Rubies but told mee not from whom I hied out of the Cardinals iurisdiction thorow Curland Prussia Meluin Danzike whence I sent one of my Seruants to the Narue with my Letters Handkerchiefe and Relation to the Emperour and Protector all sewed vp in his quilt doublet He past so speedily and safely that this Queene and her daughter were sent for stolne away very secretly and posted with thorow Liuonia before she was missing The Lieutenant sent diuers Horsemen after her but too late and was therefore displaced At her first comming as I learned after my returne she was much esteemed by the Empresse and Ladies had her Officers Lands and allowances appointed according to her state but not long after shee and her daughter were disposed into Maydes Monastery within two miles of Musco among the rest of the Queenes wherevpon she exclaymed that she was betrayed and that shee had giuen faith to me But neyther could I be permitted to see her or shee mee This piece of Seruice was very acceptable whereof I much repent me From Danzike I passed Cassubla Pomorenia Statine Meckelburgh Rostok Wismar where I escaped death miraculously Lubek where I had honourable entertaynment againe and from Hamborough arriued in England had gracious accesse to the Queene at Richmond her Maiesty professing much ioy that a Subiect of hers had attained to knowledge trust and abilitie for so waighty employment from so great a Prince I after translated the Letters and Master Secretary read them to the Queene I was well housed attended prouided and feasted by the Musconie Company was called againe to Greenwich and deliuered to her Maiesty what I was to say and what it pleased her to enquire of me In fine shee sayd well Ierome we haue lost a faire time and a great deale of treasure that our Realme might very opportunely haue beene possessed of harshly censuring Bowes his want of temperance c. Such was the Lord Treasurers good husbandry answerable to Her Maiesties frugality that though this businesse had beene kept ten yeeres a foot and the Emperour still vpheld in hope yet all the charge of Ambassadors and Messengers were layd on the Merchants both for entertainments and gifts giuen and sent of which the Queene bare the name and countenance receiuing thence many and rich Presents for that which at times cost the Company 20000. pounds The imputations and aspersions cast on me by false suggestions and subornations of Finch a hang-by of Sir Ierome Bowes who first faltered and after the other being remooued out of presence confessed that he was set on by him I omit so repaying the courtesie in releasing him when he had beene taken as a Spie c. With much helpe of friends Sir Francis Walsingham and Sir George Barnes prouision was made of Lions Buls Dogs gilt Halbords Pistols Peeces curious Armour Wynes Drugs of all sorts Organs Virginals Musicians Scarlets Pearles curious Plate and other things of good value according to my Commissions I tooke my leaue of the Queene receiued her Highnesse Letters to the Emperour and Protector with Letters Patents of grace and title for my passage with many good words and gracious promises Instructions also from the Lords and the Company with some recompence for fauour already done for them in the Emperours Court I departed well accommodated in company of tenne good ships arriued at Saint Nicolas posted twelue hundred miles to the Musco came to the Lord Protector now stiled Prince of the Prouince of Vaga who receiued me gladly sends for me againe the next day tels me of many strange alterations since I had gone from thence practises of the Mother of Demetrius and that Family discontents twixt him and his ioynt Commissioners for the Gouernment by the Emperours will Hee was now loth to haue any Competitor you shall heare much said he beleeue little more then I tell you On the other side I heard much discontent of the Nobility dissembling working on the aduantage c. I was brought before the Emperour the Counsell sitting in State and deliuered the accounts of my employment as did other his Embassadours

with the Queenes Letters Commandement was giuen to a Gentleman with fifty Huntsmen to attend the speedy bringing vp of the Presents I had commendation for the seruice done about Queene Magnus Bodan Belscoie the chiefe Fauourite to the old Emperor was now sent to a remote Town and Castle called Casan in displeasure as a man feared to sow discontent in the Nobility Peter Gollanine chiefe Treasurer to the old Emperour and peremptory against Boris was likewise sent away vnder the conduct of Iuan Voiacoue a Fauourite of the Protectors and on the way to Musco was dispatched of his life Kneaz Iuan Suscoy a prime Prince of the bloud one in commission for the Gouernment was commanded to depart the Court and City of Musco to his owne repose surprised with a Coronels Guard and not farre off the City was smothered in a Cottage with wet hay and stubble set on fire Thus were the chiefe blockes remoued out of the Godonoues way many more were quarrelled and by degrees had the like measure I was sorry to see in what hatred the Protector grew with the people He tooke me out with him at the Posterne with small attendance besides his Falconers to see his Gerfalcons flye at the Crane Herne and Swanne Princely pastimes for their hardy Hawkes not caring for their killing hauing such choyse but a beggerly Fryer wished him to hast home speedily all were not his friends Some fiue hundred horse young Nobles and Courtiers were comming to meet the Protector for honour to attend him as was said to the Citie His meaning was that none should know of his going out He followed the Fryers aduice ventured the Ford a neerer way and was at the Castle gate before that company could come about I saw him perplexed and glad that he had recouered the Palace where Bishops Dukes Gentlemen and other Suters attended him and could not at other times come in his sight in three or foure dayes together he passing by a priuy way I prayed him to looke backe the rather because they should not enuy my passing with him to shew himselfe on the Terras He cast a displeasing countenance on mee yet stayed and went towards them saluted many and tooke their Petitions great acclamations were made God saue Boris Fedorowich his health He told them he would present their Petitions to the Emperour They answere Thou most Noble Lord art King say thou the word and it is done I recite this because I perceiued his liking and ayme at the Crowne My Presents were now come the day appointed that I must againe appeare before the Emperour from her Maiesty with a Gentleman of good esteeme and was as well mounted as he attended with twenty men in faire Liueries my selfe attyred after their fashion stayed in a withdrawing Roome till the Emperour and Empresse had viewed out of the Palace windowes the Bull Dogges and Lions a goodly white Bull all spotted with naturall black dapples his gorge hanging downe to his knees washed with Sope and sleeked ouer with a greene veluet Collar studded and a red Rope made to kneele before the Emperour and Empresse and standing vp looked fiercely on euery side appearing some other strange beast which they call Buenall twelue goodly masty Doggs with Roses and Collars in like fashion led by twelue men two faire Lions brought forth of their Cages drawne on Sleds c. The Emperour being set in his Chaire of State I was sent for in my men carrying their Presents in their hands most pieces of curious Plate I deliuered my Speech the Emperour said little shewed good countenance and the Chancellor whispering in his eare stood vp put off his Cap and said he was glad to heare that his louing Sister Queen Elizabeth was in good health and therewith I was dismissed in manner as I came The perticulars of the Presents were deliuered in a Schedule to the Lord Treasurer There followed me Iuan Shamadaiao a Kinsman of the Lord Protectors with a hundred and fifty dishes of all sorts of meates for my Dinner from the Emperour Drinkes Bread and Spice sent by one hundred and fifty Gentlemen thorow the streets to my Lodging I presented the chiefe a cloth of Scarlet garment and rewarded each of the others The next day my friends their Priests Officers c. came as the manner is to make merry with that cheere The Protector spent a whole day in viewing the Prouisions sent him hee and the Empresse his Sister liking all admiring nothing more then the Organs and Virginals neuer hauing seene or heard the like before Ready mony was sent 4500. pounds and my choyce of one of three Horses sent by the Master of his Horse esteemed worth 300. Markes Hee sent me by another three thousand pounds in fine Siluer Coyne of his free gift and earnest of his fauour I was continually remembred with other gifts in bountiful measure so that Townes Monasteries Officers Merchants Natiue and Forreigne made vse of my fauour to procure Freedomes and Exemptions The Emperour I might say the Lord Protector being possessed of so great a Treasure knew not how to make vse thereof to illustrate his fame The Persian and Georgian both inuaded by the Turke were Sutors for ayde Hee lent the Persian 200000. pounds for fiue yeeres gratis and halfe so much to the Georgian King Hereupon grew a quarrell betwixt the Turke and the Moscouite The Protector ambitious of greater Rule or Title rather sent Knez Pheodor Forresten in Embassage to the King of Denmarke about a Match with his Daughter and Hartique Hans the Kings third Sonne little was resolued till foure yeeres after Alphonaze Masoloue Secretary of State was sent to Maximilian the Emperour with great and rich Presents and offer of ayde against the Turke in Hungary if he would procure passage for an Army thorow Poland of King Stephen which the Emperour could not effect and in liew thereof desiring by his Embassadours sent into Russia the lone of 300000. Rials such hostage was desired for assurance that the effect was frustrate and proued ridiculous and vnfortunate the Turke setting the Crimme on the Russe with a huge Army which cost the Moscouite infinite charge and losse of men The Pole and Swethen combined also recouered their ancient Territories the Russe at that time being employed in new Conquests in Siberia whence Chiglicaloth the Emperour with his Mother and best murseys were brought to the Musco where they liued with better mayntenance then in their owne Country I saw the King there doe many feats of actiuity on Horseback and Foot He told me of men of like complection to me in his Country taken with a Ship two yeeres before intending to passe vp the Ob to seeke Cathay The discontented Nobility now practised against the Protectors greatnesse which hee durst not then take notice of Soone after a practice was discouered to poyson the young Prince Demetrius his Mother and all that Family guarded in Ouglets Also Mekita Romanowich

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