Boghar 



ANTHONY JENKINSON ad. 



1558. 



by the Citie : for he taketh the tenth penie of all things 



that are there solde, as well by the craftsmen as by the 



marchants, to the great impoverishment of the people, 



whom he keepeth in great subjection, and when he lacketh 



money, he sendeth his officers to the shoppes of the sayd 



Marchants to take their wares to pay his debts, and will 



have credite of force, as the like he did to pay me certaine 



money that he owed me for 1 9 pieces of Kersey. Their The coyne of 



money is silver and copper, for gold there is none 



currant : they have but one piece of silver, & that is 



worth 12 pence English, and the copper money are called 



Pooles, and 120 of them goeth the value of the said 



12. pence, and is more common paiment then the silver, 



which the king causeth to rise and fall to his most 



advantage every other moneth, and sometimes twise a 



moneth, not caring to oppresse his people, for that he 



loketh not to reigne above 2 or 3 yeres before he be 



either slaine or driven away, to the great destruction of 



the countrey and merchants. 



The 26 day of the moneth I was commanded to come 

 before the said king, to whom I presented the Emperour 

 of Russia his letters, who interteined us most gently, and 

 caused us to eate in his presence, and divers times he 

 sent for me, and devised with me familiarly in his secret 

 chamber, as well of the power of the Emperour, and the 

 great Turke, as also of our countries, lawes, and religion, 

 and caused us to shoote in handguns before him, and did 

 himselfe practise the use thereof. But after all this great 

 intertainement before my departure he shewed himselfe 

 a very Tartar : for he went to the wars owing me money, 

 and saw me not payd before his departure. And al- 

 though indeede he gave order for the same, yet was I 

 verie ill satisfied, and forced to rebate part, and to take 

 wares as payment for the rest contrary to my expectation : 

 but of a begger better paiment I could not have, and 

 glad I was so to be paid and dispatched. 



But yet I must needs praise & commend this barbarous 

 king, who immediately after my arrivall at Boghar, 



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