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Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century, Comprising the Treatise 'of the Russe Common Wealth', by G. Fletcher
Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century Comprising the Treatise 'of the Russe Common Wealth' by G Fletcher Author:Giles Fletcher Title: Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century, Comprising the Treatise 'of the Russe Common Wealth', by G. Fletcher; and the Travels of Sir J. Horsey. Ed. by E.a. Bond General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: Printed for the Hakluyt Society Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of ... more »the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: APPENDIX. No. I. [From Hakluyt, s " Principal Navigations, Voyages, etc., of the English Nation;" ed. London, 180:-1812, vol. i, p. 525.] THE MOST SOLEMNE AND MAGNIFICENT CORONACION OF PHEODOR 1VANOWICH, EMPEROUR OF RUSSIA, ETC., THE TENTH OF JUNE, IN THE YEERE IfviS,' SEESE AND OBSERVED BY MASTER JEROM HORSEY, GENTLEMAN, AND SERVANT TO HER MAJESTY, A MAN OF GREAT TRAVELL AND LONG EXPERI- ENCE IN THOSE PARTS : WHERWITH IS ALSO JOYNED THE COURSE OF HIS JOURNEY OVER LAND FROM MOSCO TO EMDEN. When the old Emperour, Ivan Vasiliwich, died (being about ofhjvath the eighteenth of Aprill1 1584, after our computation), in the "au citie of Mosco, having raigned 54 yeeres, there was some tumult and uprore among some of the nobilitie and comi- naltie, which, notwithstanding, was quickly pacified. Imme- diately, the same night, the Prince Boris Pheodorowich Godonova, Knez Ivan Pheodorowich Mesthisslafsky, Knez L noris adopted ns Ivan Petrowich Susky, Mekita Romanowich, and Bodan ro/thS Jacoulewich Belskoy, being all noble men, and chiefest in, the Emperor's will (especially the Lord Boris, whom he adopted as his third sonne, and was brother to the Empresse, who was a man very wel liked of al estates, as no lesse worthy for his valure and wisedome), all these were appointed to dispose and settle his sonne Pheodor Ivanowich, having one sworne another, and all the ...« less