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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00052	A discouerie of the countries of Tartaria, Scithia, & Cataya, by the northeast: with the maners, fashions, and orders which are vsed in those countries. / Set foorth by Iohn Frampton merchaunt.	Frampton, John, fl. 1577-1596.	1580 (1580)	STC 11255; ESTC S92572	34,080	90

A Discouerie of the countries of Tartaria Scithia Cataya by the North-East With the maners fashions and orders which are vsed in those countries Set foorth by Iohn Frampton merchaunt Imprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vintree by Thomas Dawson 1580. ¶ To the right worshipfull syr Rowland Hayward knight and to master George Barne Aldermen of the citie of London and gouernours of the worshipfull company of the merchaunts aduenturers for discouerie of newe trades and to the assistents generalitie of all the sayd worshipfull fellowship Iohn Frampton wisheth all happye successe in all their attempts THere came of late to my hands right vvorshipfull a discours of the seueral sundrye customes and manners of diuers nations which are founde to inhabite in the North in the North East and in the East partes of the worlde c. Collected and written by a certaine learned man called Francisco Thamara a reader in Spayne in the citie of Cadiz and dedicated by him to the moste excellent Lorde Don Iohn Claros de Guzman Earle of Niebla and inheriter of the dukedome and estate of Medina Cidonia And vnderstanding the purpose of your worthie enterprise for the discouerie of the passages by sea to all those regions of the North and Northeast c. for very great zeale I beare to you and of desire I had to farther you in so famous an enterprise I tooke the translation of the same worke in hande and bestowed the same in writing on such as you sent in the sayde discouerie in your two Pinesses late sent forth that falling on those coastes foreknowing the natures of those people they might the better shunne perilles and on the other side take the benefite of the place the better And nowe hauing thought good to committ the same to print and to dedicate the same to your worships that eache of you may be partaker of the contents praying you to accept of my small trauell good meaning and to take the same in good parte wishing that I were more able to do you pleasure or seruice to the furtherance of so noble an enterprise since the same tendeth to the ample vent of our cloth and other our commodities of England to the increase of our nauie to the supply of sundry our wants and to the annoy of the mortall enemies of this kingdome wherby you shal please God purchace the prayer of the poore and not offende any one or other honest person of the realme and so I commit your worships to God wishing the moste happy successe that is to be wished From London this xv of Iuly 1580. Your worships to commaund Iohn Frampton ¶ Of the Region of Tartaria and of the Lawes and power of the Tartars TArtaria which by another name is called Mongall as Vicencio writeth standeth towardes the northeast and at the East parte ioyneth with the Land of the Catheos and Solangos on the South parte it bordereth with the Country of Sartanecos on the West parte with that of the Naymanos and of the North parte it is cōpassed about with the Occean Seas It was called Tartaria by reason of a Riuer running by it called Tartar and is a Region where the greatest parte is full of Mountaines and the most part of the plaine fields verie sandie being a barren countrey sauing that some parte of it is ouerflowen with the waters of the Ryuers a great parte thereof is wildernesse litle inhabited Ther are no Cities nor Townes in it sauing onelye the Citie of Cracuris Ther is so great want and smal store of wood in it that the people there are driuen to vse for the most parte the offall and dung of Oxen and Horses for their fuel aswell in rosting and boyling their victuals as otherwise The ayre of this Region is very intemperate and full of stormes and tempests that in the sommer time there are such wonderfull thunders and lightninges that men die for very feare of the same At other times there is great heat and immediately followeth verye extreame colde and snowe falling very thicke The windes there are so boysterous an strong almost continually that they drawe men backward as they are ryding on their iournyes ouerthrowing them to the ground and also blowe vp trees by the rootes and to conclude do much other harme In the winter it neuer rayneth in the summer many times and at euery of the same so little that scarselye it wetteth the ground and yet for all this it is a rich countrey of all kinde of cattell as well oxen as Camels c. Of beastes of seruice and horses there is so great store and plentie that it is to be supposed there are not so many moe in all the rest of the worlde There were at the beginning in this Realme foure sortes of people The first sorte called Yeca Mongales which is as much to saye the great Mongales The second sorte called Sumongales which signifieth the Mongales of the water because they dwell neere to the Riuer Tartar whereof they beare the name of Tartars The third are called Mercat and the fourth sorte Metrit All these had one manner of shape of body and vsed all one language Their manner of lyuing at the firste was fearce barbarous without any lawes or policie they lyued by the increase of rattell and were a bruite people and little regarded among the Scithians Afterwarde in processe of tyme they deuided and seuered them selues into certaine places and began to take theyr Captaines in companie which had charge of the whole common wealth and yet for all that ceased not to pay tribute to the Naymanos which next adioyned to them vntill that by chaunce one Canguista a man brought vp among them was elected for their king by meanes of an Oracle and reuelation This man immediately after he had receiued the Empire and Souereigne gouernment commaunded that all honour accustomed to be done to the deuill should ceasse and established by his generall edicte that all people shoulde honour and worship one onelye GOD the mightiest greatest and best of all others and also gaue expresse commandement that it should be generally published that he had receyued the Realme by the same Gods prouidence After this he commaunded that all such as could beare armour should come forthwith and represent them selues before him by a certeine day And all the people apt for the warres being come together he in his owne person hauing taken the number of them deuided them in order and appoynted ouer thē Corporals Sargents Captaines and Coronels c. After this to proue what force and power he had in the empire and supreme authoritie he commaunded seuen of the most principall men that first had the charge and gouernment of all the Realme to kill their sonnes with their owne handes the which though it was and seemed a very hard thing vnto thē yet they accōplished it forthwith being moued thervnto partly for feare of the cōmon people and