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A65810	The rarities of Russia with the interest of England in point of trade with that country which occasioned the magnificent entertainments of the Russian ambassadours, 1. by Queen Elizabeth, anno 1589, 2. by King James, November 5, 1617, 3. by King Charles the Second, 1662, which are here described / by Will. White merchant.	White, Will. (William), merchant.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1857; ESTC R38600	16,022	28

the powder whereof is good against poyson which makes Beades Knives and swords Hafts for noble Men and Gentlemen two foot in length and weigh eleven or twelve pound a peice 17 Neer Dudia is a soft Rock called Slude which cut to thin peices serveth instead of Glasse and Horne and gives a clearer light 18 They have Fallow Deer Roe Bucks great store their Staggs are stately Creatures jealous and revengefull insomuch that a Stagge unable for the present to master another who had taken his Hind from him waited his opportunity till his enemy had weakened himselfe with his wantonnesse and then killed him their Flesh must needs be good whose very Hornes are accounted Cordiall besides there is a concave in the neck of a green headed slagge when above his first crosting wherein are many wormes some two inches in length very usefull in Physick and therefore lay'd up by many discreet persons 19. There Beasts of strange kind are the Lash the Ollen the wild Horse the Bear the Wolvering or Wood Dog the Lyserne the Beaver the Siabt the Martron the blacke and dun Fox the white Bear towards the sea-coast of Pechora the Gurn-state the Miniver their Hores and Squirells which are of the usuall colour in summer but the one turnes white and the other Gray in Winter some Heathen have causlesly complained of nature as a step mother to Mankind because other creatures come into the World cloathed with Furres and Feathers whilest man is exposed naked to the world I say a causelesse charge because what the Beasts have by nature we wear by art the Furre they wore when alive we wear when they are dead 20 For Birds they have diverse of the principall kind as Hawkes Eagles the Ger-faulcon the slight Faulcon the Goshawke the Tasset the spar-Hawke the storke the Crane the Teddor the Pheasant and Patridge and the great Owle Muscovy may be called the Aviary of the World where the wild Fowle are remarkeable for 1 Plenty so that some ten thousand small Birds have been caught at a draught 2 Variety no man being able to give them their proper names except one should get Adames Nomenclator of Creatures 3 Delsciousnesse wild Fowle being more dainty and digestable then tame of the same kind as spending their grossy humors with their activity and constant motion in flying 21 They have all fresh water Fish as Pikes the fresh water Wolves and therefore an old pond-Pike is a dish of more state then profit to the Owners seeing a Pikes belly is a little Fish-pond where lesser of all sorts have been contained although tyrants are short liv'd yet Pikes live six score yeares this Fish they say cheweth the Cud is fine and wholesome and the less the sweet carps which were brought thence to England in King Hen. the 8th time Trouts pleasant and wholesome Fish as whose feeding is pure and cleanly in the swiftest streames and on the hardest gravell they are in their Perfection in May and yearly decline with the Buck Eeles which loves not the Russe as well he loves them so true is the Italian Proverbe give Eeles without Wine to your exemies Pilchards plenty whereof are taken in these parts persecuted to the shore by their enemies the sunny and Hawke till in pursuance of their revenge they all become a prey to the Fisherman their numbers are incredible employing a number of poor people in pulling gutting splitting powdering and drying them and then with Oyle and a Lemon they are meate for greatest Noble man amongst them Tenches Fish that love ponds better then Rivers and Pits better then either it 's pleasant in Tash and is called by some the Physician or surgeon of Fish it cures the Pike and therefore the Pike they say spares it and other Fish as the Bellonga the sturgeon the severign and sterledy out of the rowes of which four Fish they make great store of caveare they have White and Red sammon a dainty and wholesome Fish and a double riddle in nature First for its invisible feeding no man alive having found any measure in the maw thereof secondly for its strang leaping and shooring it self out of the water an Incredible heigth and Length and they say it increaseth from a spawn to a full grown fish within the compasse of a year plenty of these in their ports though not in such abundance as in Scotland where servants they say Indent with their masters not to be fed therewith above thrice a week The Herring a fish though Contemptible in its self Considerable in its company swiming in such sholes that what the Whale hath in bignesse the Herring hath in Number yea red Herrings which in England are eated for sauce to quicken the appetite serve in these ports for food to satisfy hunger The last Commodity is Fustian Kersy and other kind of Stuffes made cheifly in those Ports and thence brought hither CHAP. III. There Religion AS for their religion for which we ought to entertaine them It s not depraved by superstition Idolatry and usurpation of the Church of Rome but according the poorer way of the Greek Church they own the scriptures and the 4 first councells together with to the purer wayes of the primitive times they are governed by one Patrion of Chio and works by 4 Arch Bishops by threescore Bishops with there assistants there Clergy are very ignorant and unwilling to take any paines to teach the people but they read a Lyturgy and administer the sacraments there Lyturgy begins with these words Blesse O heavenly Pastour meaning Christ In the name of the Father c. Lord have mercy upon us c then in Chancel saith the Lords Prayer and a donology to the trinity then the Psalms for the day then they read Chapters the Commandments and Athanasies his Creed and then they pray there children are Baptized within 8 days after they are born the Sacrament of the Lords-supper is administred but once a year a little before Easter very solemnly all going to it with confession of sins the bread is put in the wine and so administred there was one endeavour to unite them to the Church of Rome in the year 1588. but it failed because of the many Corruptions in doctrine and discipline which they found in that Church And at the same time and ever since they have endeavoured to make leagues offensive and defensive With all Christian Princes that they might be able to grapple with the great enemy of the faith the Turke to the advancement of Religion the propagation of the Gospel and the conversion of the world if any object that Religion is not to be beaten into turn with the Dint of sword yet it may be Lawfull to open the the way force for instruction catechising such other gentle by means to follow after however if we do not offend the Infidel we may defend our selves and a preventive war grounded upon a just fear of Invasion is Lawful It s best being before hand with