PREFACE TO THE 



home. Immediately after you have set downe in five 

 severall voiages the successe of M. Jenkinsons laudable 

 and well-begun enterprise, under the foresayd Shaugh 

 Thamas, under Shally Murzey the new king of Hircan, 

 and lastly our traffique with Osman Basha the great 

 Turkes lieutenant at Derbent. Moreover, as in M. 

 Jenkinsons travel to Boghar the Tartars, with their 

 territories, habitations, maner of living, apparell, food, 

 armour, &c. are most lively represented unto you : so 

 likewise in the sixe Persian Journals you may here and 

 there observe the state of that countrey, of the great 

 Shaugh and of his subjects, together with their religion, 

 lawes, customes, & maner of government, their coines, 

 weights and measures, the distances of places, the tempera- 

 ture of the climate and region, and the natural commodi- 

 ties and discommodities of the same. 



Furthermore in this first Volume, all the Ambassages 

 and Negotiations from her Majestie to the Russian 

 Emperor, or from him unto her Majestie, seemed by 

 good right to chalenge their due places of Record. As 

 namely, first that of M. Randolph, 1568. then the 

 emploiment of M. Jenkinson 1571. thirdly. Sir Jerome 

 Bowes his honorable commission and ambassage 1582. 

 and last of all the Ambassage of M. Doct. Fletcher 1588. 

 Neither do we forget the Emperours first Ambassador 

 Osep Napea, his arrivall in Scotland, his most honourable 

 entertainment and abode in England, and his dismission 

 into Russeland. In the second place we doe make 

 mention of Stephen Tuerdico, and Pheodata Pogorella ; 

 thirdly, of Andrea Savin ; and lastly, of Pheodor 

 Andrewich Phisemski. And to be briefe, I have not 

 omitted the Commissions, Letters, Privileges, Instructions, 

 Observations, or any other Particulars which might serve 

 both in this age, and with all posteritie, either for 

 presidents in such like princely and weightie actions to 

 bee imitated, or as woorthy monuments in no wise to bee 

 buried in silence. Finally, that nothing should be wanting 

 which might adde any grace or shew of perfection unto 



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