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master, if thou wouldst command her 
person to be described, such as it is.” 
And: the queen ‘said,.“ If it'is’ so; E 
will, \as; soon ‘as she ‘is "perfeetly*reco- 
vered} shewher|to'thee; and command: 
her person._to»be'described.”? ‘Then said 
the queen: to Fedor,“ Hast''thou" yet 
any: further)! command! how this’ great 
affainciscto:be??oc1 © i 
And: Fedor-saidy' T have many com- 
mands: of imyomaster «respecting that 
which\-hehath:charged: me to’ speak 5 
yet 'tovsettle this affair hath not been 
orderedtosme, only to ‘speak about it : 
but if, please:God, thy ambassadors, oh 
lady!) shall be. with my master, and thy 
niece please him,’ hewill also commaud 
an’ agreement to be formed on this mat- 
ter; and confirm/it duly.” : 
And »the queen ‘said, * But I shell, 
without ‘an ‘exact’ agreement and con- 
firmation, not only refuse my niece to 
go, but would not even allow a younger 
person than her to go without a proper 
settlement; tell’ me, therefore, then, 
whether'thou hast any more to say to 
me; how my niece is to be married to 
thy master.” 
At last Fedor »consents to be more 
explicit. © 
* Our lord,’ he said, “lady! hath 
commanded: me to say, how by divine 
direction thy’ niece’is to -be betrothed 
to him; and thy niece shall be with him 
in the Christian faith, in one faith with 
our master ; and those who shall come 
with her, doyars of both sexes, who wish 
tolive at the master’s court, they shall 
also be in the Christian faith with her ; 
and those that wish to return to the 
English country may go home freely, 
with great presents from our master ; 
and the road shall be clear to them; after 
ihe settlement by which the whole will 
be concluded: and, in future, the road 
shall be clear for such ambassadors as 
thou, Queen: Elisabeth, shalt send’ to 
our master, or to thy niece to go there 
and back freely, and with great presents 
from our master.” 
And the queen said, “ If now your 
master shall. have children with my 
niece ?”” And Fedor said, “ God grant 
to our: master long life! Our master’s 
son, the Garewitch prince, Fedor, will 
follow him .in his dominion; but the 
children which God shall give to our 
master with thy niece, these children 
shall receive estates according ‘to their 
princely stations, such as hath ever been 
the custom with our. rulers; and ‘the 
master will grant them estates equal in 
degree with the Garewitch Fedor,” 
Translation of a Russian Document. 
(Nov. 1) 
And the queen said, “ If your master 
were to have a daughter, how would it 
be then?” “And Fedor said, “Our 
masters give their daughters to princes, 
or children’ of princes.” And the qti¢en 
said, “To Whom, then, hath your master 
given a” daughter—to’ what” prince ?”” 
And Fedor said} “ Our master hath ‘had 
daughters; who died in’ “infancy. ’, His 
father, the Czar Wassili, had no ‘daugh- 
ter; but his grandfather, Czar Iwan, had a 
daughter, Czarine Olena, (Helen), who was ° 
married to Alexander, King of Poland.’ 
And onthe 5th day of April there 
came to Fedor, 'Pomas (Thomas) Ran- 
dolph, ‘and spoke'in the name’ of the. 
queen to Fedor: “ Thou hast spoken 
in the name of thy master to the queen, 
that the daughter of the Chuntintine 
prinee, her niece, Maria Chastins, might 
be shewn to thee, and her person, be 
described, and sent with thee to thy 
master; and she said to thee, that she 
was ill, but that, if she were well, she 
would order her to be shewn'to thee, 
and command her person to be described; 
“and my niece is now ill, and to shew 
her to thee, and describe her person, 
is impossible.’ ” ss haha as 
And Fedor said, “ Our master wished 
with the queen friendship and relation- 
ship, in order that henceforth the friend- 
ship between our master and the queen 
might be immoveable: and if Queen 
Elisabeth desires the love of our master, 
to her, and relationship and friendship, 
the queen may do in this as my master: 
has commanded in this matter; and in 
case she will not do so, let the queen’ 
command me to go back to my master.” 
And Tomas Randolph’ said, “T shall 
refer thy speech to the queen: the will 
of God and the queen be done!" 
And the following day, Tomas Ran- 
dolph sent for Jelisar, and said ‘to him, 
“ How does Fedor insist on seeing the 
queen’s niece ? "When you set off, your 
master had a son; now, a second one 
has been born to him.”* ~ But these 
speechés 
* About this time a son was born to the 
Czar, by the Zariza Maria Feodorowna, of 
the family Nagije. But Pissemsskij had been 
commanded in his secret instructions, if he 
should be questioned respecting the‘ ezar’s 
consort, to: say, “‘ Our master hath senit'in 
many countries, in order to select: a bride 
for him, the great lord ; but this not having 
succeeded, the master hath taken a boyar's 
daughter, but she is not after, his, minds 
and since the queen’s niece is so handsqme, 
and worthy of so great a thing, the. ¢zar 
will, leaving his consort, be betrothed isthe 
queen’s niece.” MB ORIOL eae 
