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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09051	A new and large discourse of the trauels of sir Anthony Sherley Knight, by sea, and ouer land, to the Persian Empire Wherein are related many straunge and wonderfull accidents: and also, the description and conditions of those countries and people he passed by: with his returne into Christendome. Written by William Parry gentleman, who accompanied Sir Anthony in his trauells.	Parry, William, fl. 1601.	1601 (1601)	STC 19343; ESTC S101167	24,964	48

or to be sent into some parte of his country to be kept where wée shoulde not haue heard from our friendes in haste which we feared worse then death Yet in the end wée were eftsoones sent for before the priuy councell where sir Anthony had his charge to be gone which was no small ioy to vs all But the day before wée left Muscouia it was my fortune to sée the King and his Quéene in cerimonious and triumphant manner passing out of the Citty with a great Image and a huge Bell to offer to a certayne Friery some thirty miles off which was performed in this sorte First all the morning diuers troupes of horse passed out of the Citty to stand ready to receiue him at his comming out of the gate About midday the King setting forwards his guard formost all on horsebacke to the number of fiue hundred all clad in stammel coats riding in ranke thrée and three with bows and arrowes and swords girt to them as also hatchets vnder the one thigh After the guarde were ledde by twenty men twenty goodly horses with very rich and curious saddles and ten more for his sonne and heire apparant béeing a childe of twelue yeeres of age After which was ledde in like sorte twenty beutifull white horses for the Quéenes chariots hauing onely vppon them a fine sheete and on theyr heades a crimesin veluet bridle After them came a great number of Friers in theyr rich coapes singing carrying many pictures and lights After them followed the greatest parte of the merchants of the Citty Next them was ledde the Kings horse for that day together with his sonnes the kings saddle and furniture most richly besette with stones of great price and beauty Then followed the Patriarch wyth all the Archbishoppes Bishoppes and great Prelates singing in their coapes very rich and glorious hauing huge Images borne before them béeing very richly inlayed with pretious Iems of diuerse colours and lights about them Then followed the king himselfe who had in his left hand his sonne aboue mentioned and in his right hand his cappe Next him came the Quéene supported on eyther side by two olde Ladies hir face euen thickely plaistered with painting as were the other Ladies according to the custome of the Countrey hir body very grosse hir eyes hollowe and far into hir head attended with some thrée score very fayre women if painting which they holde a matter religious deceiued not the iudgement of mine eie All whose apparel was very rich beset with pearle curiously wrought hauing white hattes on theyr heads wyth great round bands laden wyth pearle We neuer sawe hattes worne by any women in the Country but by them onely Next vnto them was drawne thrée huge chariots the first with tenne fayre white horses two and two the second with eight and the third with sixe in like order which chariots were al very rich and gorgeous within and without After which all the noble men passed in coaches Then was caried in a great chest the forenamed Image guarded by a great man and State of the Country with some fiue hundred vnder his commaund for the guarde and conuoy of that Image And last of all came that huge bell béeing of twenty tunne weight drawne by thrée thousand and fiue hundred men not being possible to be drawne by oxen or horses in manner following They fastned sixe excéeding long hawsers or mighty great gable ropes in six lengths to the frame whereon the bell was placed In this ranke of ropes were placed those thrée thousand and sixe hundred men with litle cordes ouer their shoulders fastned to the great hawsers drawing after the manner of our Westerne barge-men héere in England The poyse of the Bell was so g●●at that passing along the stréetes of Musco being paued wyth great square péeces of timber sette close one by another the woodde of the frame or carriage whereon the bell was drawne set the timber of the stréets on fire through both the woods chasing togither so that some were faine to followe hard after to throwe on water as the timbers beganne to smoake And thus was this bell and the Image eonueyed to the Friery as hath afore béene sayde The next day following we tooke our iourney that is to say in mid Maie towards Saint Nicolas to take shipping which was some sixe wéekes passage by land and riuer During all which time we saw nothing in a maner but woods and water But being come to the sea side being the place where wée were to take ship we stayed there one moneth for prouision for our iourney In which time we were diuers times inuited aboorde English shippes where we were roially banquetted at the Agents charges and the merchants To the solemnization of which banquets we had thrée hundred hundred great shot And as we stayed there one Maister Megricke a merchant came from Musco and brought the Friers two letters wyth hym reporting that the Lord Chauncallor in satisfaction of the wrong and ill vsage he extended to sir Anthony sent after the Frier to the borders who tooke both his letters and all his substance that he had deceitfully and lewdly gotten in many yeares before in the Indiaes from him leauing him not so much as his Friers wéede and whether hée caused his throate to be cut it was vncertayne but not vnlike Thus as this lewd wretch had as peraduenture he thought passed the pikes of Gods iudgements bent against him and threatening his ruine for his seuerall villanies and that as to him perhappes it séemed hée was nowe euen entring the confines of his owne countrey furnished with Letters in his commendation from the Persian mighty Potentate to his liege lord the king of Spaine whereby hée thought to haue attained notwithstanding his former leud life in the Indies great reputation and preferment euen then was hée ouertaken wyth a vengeance and payed home with a mischiefe to the vtter losse of his Letters wherein so much hée ioyed his substance that was all his liueloode and as it is most likely of his life the leudnesse whereof brought vppon him these vnexpected yet well deserued miseries A good caueat for all those that vnder God almighties coate will play all diuellish prankes whereof there are but too many in these last dayes and therefore the worst dayes crept into his holy church in all quarters of Christendome making the same sacred house of pr●●er which ought with all prayer and holy indeuor to bée preserued from all pollution and polluted persons a very denne of théeues as it is in the Gospel that walke continually in shéepes clothing but inwardely they are rauening Woolues They are knowne by theyr workes From hence wée tooke shippe for Stoade béeing sixe wéekes vppon the Sea ere wée coulde recouer it In which time we were continually tossed and tumbled with contrary Windes and once had béene like to haue béene vtterly cast away so that wée all were ouerwhelmed in despayre as wée were at poynt to be in the Sea but that by Gods protection and direction we past all expectation fell vppon the Flie. Where hauing diuers Letters of sir Anthonies to his friendes in England I parted from hin he holding his course toward the Emperor of Germany from thence I came to the Tassel then to the Firme so to the Hage from the Hage to Vlushing And finally from thence to Douer where I landed in the middest of the moneth of September in the thrée and fortieth yéere of the Quéenes Maiesties raigne and in the yéere of our Lorde God one thousand sixe hundred and one FINIS I. D. of Hereford in praise of William Parry Gentleman TO creepe like Ants about this earthie Round And not to gather with the Ant is vaine Some finde out Countries which were neuer found Yet scarcely get their labour for their paine Whereby I gather there they gather not But rather scatter Better lost than found Were all such Countries Will such is thy lot Thou hast lost ground to finde out other ground Yet thou hast found much more than thou couldst lose Thogh thou couldst lose more than the Seas confine For thou hast found that none could finde but those That seeke as thou hast done for Wisedomes eine And that 's Experience no where to be seene But eu'ry where where thou good Will hast beene Tam Arte Quam Marie