ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1580. 



1237- Demetrius begat George, who in the yere 1237. was 

 slaine by one Bathy, a Tartarian duke, which Bathy 

 wasted Moscovia, and subdued the same unto himselfe. 

 Since which time the Russians were tributary to the 

 Tartars, and were governed by such dukes as they 

 pleased to set over them. Howbeit the Tartars so 

 greatly abused that authoritie, that when they sent 

 their ambassadours unto the prince of Moscovie, he 

 was constrained to goe forth and meete with them, 

 and (as Herbortus Fulstinius in his Polonian historie 

 reporteth) to offer them a bason full of mares milk, 

 and if they had spilt any whit thereof upon their 

 horses maines, to licke it off with his toung, and having 

 conducted them into his princely court, to stand bare- 

 headed before them while they sate downe, and with 

 all reverence to give eare and attendance unto them. 

 But by what meanes they shooke off at the length 

 this yoake of servitude, I will forthwith declare. 



About the same time almost all Polonia, and the 

 dukedome of Silesia were overrun by the Tartars with 

 fire and sword. Who having burnt Presla the chiefe 

 citie of Silesia, & being come before the citie of Legnitz, 

 they fought there a most cruel and bloody field, wherin 

 was slain duke Henrie himselfe being sonne unto the 

 most holy and devout lady Hedvice, with many others, 

 whose monuments and graves be as yet extant in sundry 

 places, and with an infinite multitude of common 

 souldiers, insomuch that the Tartars filled nine great 

 sackes with the eares of them which they had slaine. 

 The Tartars to the end they might obtaine the victorie, 

 presented unto the view of our souldiers the portrature 

 of a mans head placed by arte magique upon a banner, 

 wherein the letter X. was painted, which being shaken 

 and mooved up and downe breathed foorth a most 

 loathsome stench, & strooke such a terrour into the 

 hearts of our men, that being as it were astonished 

 with the snaky visage of Medusa, they were utterly 

 daunted and dismayed. 



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