Chap. IL Northern Coafts ^Europe. 481 
It is called Ne Mijheay, and it got that Name by this 
Means : A young Rafcal which was furprized commit- 
ting an abominable Action with a Cow, cryed out to the 
PeSbn that fpied him, Ne Mijheay^ Bo not difturb me. 
This was done about eight Years ago i and ever fince, that 
horrid Sin has been fo called, 
Eliah'^s Misfortune would have been regretted more, had 
not Najhoktn fucceeded him in the Adminiftration of Pub- 
lic Affairs. ITis Lord is one of the wifeft Minifters in 
Europe ; he is a Man of Temper and Integrity ; he is in- 
defatigable in the Difcharge of his Offices committed to 
his Management, and a hearty Afferter of monarchical Go- 
vernment 9 he is Chancellor of the Office of Embaffadors, 
and Governor of Rujfia Minor 9 and has feveral other Em- 
ployments, which his Predeceffor FMab held before him. 
It was Najhokin that concluded the Peace with Poland., very 
honourable to his Mailer. He alfo formed the SwediJJo 
Alliance, and erefted the Silk Manufa< 5 lure throughout all 
RuJJia \ and by his Means Ru£ia is made the Mart of the 
Silk Trade 9 moft of that Commodity either from Perfia 
or the Indies being brought thither, and fent from thence 
into other Parts ot Europe 9 but this Commerce did not 
lafl long. 
His next Work was to reform the Emperor’s Houfliold, 
and the Laws of the Empire. He contrived it fo, that no 
Suit fhould be long depending 9 and every Governor of a 
Province, affiftcd by his Council, had a Power given him 
of Life or Death. Before that Order, Criminals of all forts 
were brought to Mofcow to be tried, which was very 
troublefome and inconvenient for the Czar. The laft Sum- 
mer a Jew., who had turned Purk^ and was Interpreter to 
the Merchants, zccukd. Najlookin on _ their Behalf, 
before the Emperor, for doing them fome Injuftice in the 
Precauce, or Court of Embaffadors, of which he was Chan- 
cellor ; The Emperor anfwered. That Najhokin had the 
Management of all Affairs relating to Trade-, that he re- 
ferred them to him 9 and if he was unjuftly accufed, their 
Interpreter fhould pay dear for it. The Czar was as good 
as his Word 9 the Accufation- being found to be groundlefs 9 
and the Renegado Jew had thirty Lafhes with a Whip, 
which threw him into a miferable Condition. Najhokin 
has often told my Author, That it was the Czar’s Intereft 
to keep up a friendly Correfpondence with the King of 
England., more than with any other Prince in Chrijlendom 9 
and it will not be improper in this Place to mention fome- 
thing relating to him. Some Englijh Merchants petiti- 
oned NaJJookin., that they might land fome Goods which 
were on board the Ships lately arrived from England : 
“ He told them, he had a Paper printed, giving an 
“ Account of the Plague in London 9 that probably 
this Merchandize might come out of Houfes that 
“ were infedted, and they knew very well a Spark 
“ might fet a whole City on Fire 9 that he thought 
“ their way of publifhing their Infirmities was very 
ftrange 9 adding, that if the poor and miferable expofe 
their Mifery and Poverty, it is to excite Compaffion, 
and get fomething by it 9 but the Englijh., fpread 
“ it about every where, that the Plague laid their 
Country wafte, and gave the World a fair Warning 
not to have any thing to do with them 9 as Lanthorns 
** or Light-houfes near the Coafts warn the Pilots not 
“ to come near them for fear of being fhipwrecked.” 
He faid one Day, “ He wondered any Princes fhould 
“ fend Letters of Recommendation in Favour of their 
Subjedfs, demanding Juftice in their Behalf, as if the 
“ Czar did not know how to deal juftly by Strangers as 
“ well as by his own Subjedls. Sure fuch muft be very 
cheap in Denmark, continued he, becaufe E receive 
“ more from thence than from any other Kingdom. I 
I do not know what they might coft in England, but 
lam very well fatisfied they are all to no Purpofe. 
The Mufcovites do not govern themfelves like the 
EngliJJo, by the Cuftom of their Countries 9 and if the 
“ Rujfian Drefs becomes them, theirs will never become 
the RuJJiansP Being once difcourfing on the Affairs 
of England, and particularly on the Succours fent by the 
Kings of France and Denmark to the Dutch againft the 
Ydm^oi England, he declared, “ He could not penetrate 
into the Politics of thofe Monarchs, who in other 
VoL. II. Numb. 102. 
“ things were difcreet, in doing fo pfepofterous an 
“ tion9 that in his Opinion, the beft thing for them 
“ had been to have joined with the King of England, 
“ and other Princes of Europe, to form an Alliance for 
‘‘ the rooting up all Republics, which are good for 
“ nothing, but to ferve for an Afylum to Rebels and 
“ Heretics.” 
There have lately been a great many Jews admit- 
ted into the Czar’s Court, by means of a JewiJh Surgeon, 
who pretends to be a Lutheran. He was bred up in Po- 
land, and advanced himfelf in the Court of Mufcovy, by 
furnifhing Bogdan Matfeig, high Steward of the Empe- 
ror’s Houfhold,with Polifi G\r\s, of whom he is very fond. 
This Minifter was the Companion of the Czar’s Youth, 
and has infmuated himfelf fo far into his good Graces, 
that for fome Time he has been the reigning Favourite, 
and managed all the Concerns of the Houftiold as he 
plcafed. His Wife obferving his Intrigues, and under-^ 
ftanding that he met Polijh Girls, and other handfome 
young Women, Slaves, as well as thofe that were free, 
was fo jealous of him, that her Ill-humour became 
infupportable to him, and he poifoned her to get rid of 
it. The People murmured at the Murder, and the Czar 
commanded Matfeig, either to quit his Poll: or marry, 
and leave his Miftreffes. It is faid he intended to take 
one of his Concubines to be his Wife. He cannot agree 
with Najhokin, and does not love the Englijh, becaufe 
the Dutch have drawn him to their Intereft by rich Pre- 
fents. 
22. The Czar has lately built a Work-houfe, about 
a League from Mofcow, where the Poor are employed 
in Manufactures of Hemp and Flax. The Houfe is 
beautiful, large, and fo well contrived, that all the Beg- 
gars in his Empire may be em.ployed there 9 for whofe 
Maintainance the Emperor has fettled Lands upon it, to 
a confiderable Value. The Czaritza, or Czarina, manages 
the Woman’s Work, and employs them for her own 
Benefit. The Czar is every Day bufy in contriving the 
Increafe of Manufactures, how to invent new ones, or 
improve the old. Plis Workmen coft little or nothing 
for their Subfiftance 9 he rather gets than lofes by them 9 
So that he faves his Revenues arifing by the Cabacks, the 
Bagnio’s, and Stove-Chambers, Pitch, Hemp, Flax, 
Honey, Wax, Caviare, Sturgeons, and the falted and 
dried Fifti that comes from JJiracan, Cajan, the Lake 
of Belfire, and feveral other Lakes and Rivers in his 
Dominions, particularly in Siberia, where there are 
abundance of them, and yield plentifully. 
The Czar goes every Year, about the End of May, to 
a Country Houfe about three Miles hom Mofcow, called 
Obrafankjky, or the Transfiguration, to which it is dedi- 
cated in Obedience to what is faid by the Evangeliji St. 
Luke, Chap. ix. 13. Majier, it is good for us to be here, 
let us make three Tabernacles, one for thee, one for Mofes, 
and one for Elias, &c. The Emperor ordered feveral 
magnificent Tents to be fet up 9 his own was of Cloth 
of Gold, lined with Sables 9 that of the Czarina of Cloth 
of Silver, lined with Ermine 9 and thofe of the Princes 
and chief Lords, of other Stuff, and other linings, ac- 
cording to their feveral Ranks. The Czar, and Czari- 
nads Tents, thofe of their Children, ten in Number, and 
their five Sifters, were round 9 in the Middle ftands one 
which ferves for a Church, and, all together, make one 
of the fineft Sights in the World. Guards are polled 
round about them, at a Mufket-fhot Diftance. 
There are Pallifadoes placed to keep off the People. 
None durft pafs beyond thefe Bounds 9 fot the Czar will 
not fuffer his Recreations to be prophaned by vulgar 
Eyes. When the Emperor goes into the Country for his 
Pleafure, no Man is permitted to prefent any Petition 
unto him. A Captain of White Rujfia, when Peter Sel- 
ticoro. Governor of the Province, refufed his Pay for 
above three Years, not knowing how to have Juftice, 
thought his beft Way was to addrefs himfelf immedi- 
ately to the Emperor. He came up to him where he 
was in the Country, and approaching too near his Coach 
to give him his Petition, the Czar miftrufting he had 
fome ill Delign, perhaps that it was to affaffinate him, 
thruft him to the Heart, with a Cane that had an Iron 
Spike at the End of it. He fell down dead qn the Spot, 
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