Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia, by Anthony Jenkinson and Other Englishmen. With Some Account of the First Intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by Way of the Caspian SeaHakluyt Society, 1886 - Great Britain |
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aboue accompt affaires Aleppo Ambassador Anthony Ienkinson arriued Astracan Basha batman boates Boghar captaine Casbin Caspian sea clocke Colmogro companie countrey dayes deliuered departed Derbent diuers dominions doth Ducket Duke Dwina Emperour England English Marchants euery fauour fiue gaue giue giuen Glouer Hakl hath haue hauing Highnes honnor Iffued iourney Island Item Jenkinson Kholmogori kinge Lake Ladoga Lake Onega land leagues leaue letters Lord maner Master merchants Meridian altitude miles monastery moneth Mosco Nicholas Nouogrod Novgorod obserued Ormus ouer Persia Prince priuiledge prouided Queenes Maiestie Quenes receiued riuer Russes Russia sayd sent seruants serue shalbe Shaugh ship shippe silke subiects themselues thence thereof theyr things Thomas Thomas Alcocke Thomas Randolphe thy Maiestie towne trade traffike trauell Turkes tyme versts vnder vnderstand vntill vnto Volga Vologda voyage vpon vppon vsed wares William winde wold yeere
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Page 227 - Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.
Page 362 - Saints, which images men carie upon their shoulders: after the images follow certaine priests to the number of 100 or more: after them the Metropolitan who is led betweene two priests, and after the Metropolitan came the Emperour with his crowne upon his head, and after his majestie all his noble men orderly. Thus they followed the procession unto the water, & when they came unto the hole that was made, the priests set themselves in order round about it.
Page 361 - ... yet they were very strongly made of Wood and filled with earth, being at the least 30. foote thicke. This triumph being ended, the Emperour departed, and rode home in the same order that he came foorth into the field. The ordinance is discharged euery yeere in the moneth of December, according to the order before mentioned.
Page 5 - Columbum ; from a parchment manufcript of the Fourteenth Century, in Latin, the text of which has recently been Tranflated and Edited by COLONEL H. YULE, CB, FRGS, late of HM Bengal Engineers.
Page 374 - ... and be Master at all times after, which commonly happeneth to the man, for he is readiest to set his foot on it, because he letteth it fall himselfe, then they goe home againe, the womans face being uncovered.
Page 430 - Ducket, notwithstanding, and the rest aforesayd receiued diners wounds from the enemie, and were so hurt, and withall so oppressed with the multitude and force of them, that they were at last constrained to make an agreement with the Cossaks by rendring the ship into their hands, hauing receiued first their othes sworne by their crucifixes not to doe any further harm to their persons.
Page 401 - Shaughes hand and other mens, that it may be sent from hence to be in Astracan at the beginning of Aprill, from whence it may be sent to Colmogro in three moneths and lesse, and there to be ready with the rest of your goods by the ende of lune for your shippes to receaue ; that will be time inough. This I doubt not to bring to passe within a yeere or two, when we are throughly settled in these parts and better knowen.
Page 255 - Also that you doe diligently obserue the flowing & ebbing in euery place and how the tides do set, which way the flood doth come, and how much water it doth high in euery place, and what force the same tide hath to driue a ship in an houre as neere as you can iudge it. 6. Also that you doe seeke to...
Page 229 - ... sell their own wares by retaile in their owne house, that then they sell it in theyr owne house by retaile to our people & other strangers, as they can agree : and weights and arshenids2 to be kept in theyr house with our seale, and they...
Page 449 - ... heaving out water with buckets, and all the best shifts they could make, the shippe was halfe full of water ere the leake could be found and stopt. The 12.