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** Transcriber's Notes **

The printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains thespelling and abreviations of Hakluyt's 16th-century original. In thisversion, the spelling has been retained, but the following manuscriptabbreviations have been silently expanded:

- vowels with macrons = vowel + 'n' or 'm'- q; = -que (in the Latin)- y[e] = the; y[t] = that; w[t] = with

This edition contains footnotes and two types of sidenotes. Most footnotesare added by the editor. They follow modern (19th-century) spellingconventions. Those that don't are Hakluyt's (and are not alwayssystematically marked as such by the editor). The sidenotes are Hakluyt'sown. Summarizing sidenotes are labelled [Sidenote: ] and placed before thesentence to which they apply. Sidenotes that are keyed with a symbol arelabeled [Marginal note: ] and placed at the point of the symbol, except inpoetry, where they are moved to the nearest convenient break in the text.

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THE PRINCIPAL
Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques,
AND
Discoveries
OF
The English Nation.

Collected by
RICHARD HAKLUYT, PREACHER,

AND

Edited by
EDMUND GOLDSMID, F.R.H.S.

VOL. II.

NORTHEASTERN EUROPE, AND ADJACENT COUNTRIES.

Part I.

TARTARY.

THE PRINCIPAL
Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques,
AND
Discoveries
OF
The English Nation.

Collected by
RICHARD HAKLUYT, PREACHER,

AND

Edited by
EDMUND GOLDSMID, F.R.H.S.

EASTERN EUROPE AND THE MUSCOVY COMPANY.

Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries in EASTERN EUROPE

Part of an Epistle written by one Yuo of Narbona vnto the Archbishop of Burdeaux, containing the confession of an Englishman as touching the barbarous demeanour of the Tartars, which had liued long among them, and was drawen along perforce with them in their expedition against Hungarie: Recorded by Mathew Paris in the yere of your Lord 1243.

The Lord therefore being prouoked to indignation, by reason of this andother sinnes committed among vs Christians, is become, as it were, adestroying enemie, and a dreadful auenger. This I may iustly affirme to betrue, because an huge nation, and a barbarous and inhumane people, whoselaw is lawlesse, whose wrath is furious, euen the rod of Gods anger,ouerrunneth, and vtterly wasteth infinite countreyes, cruelly abolishingall things where they come, with fire and sword. And this present Summer,the foresayd nation, being called Tartars, departing out of Hungarie, whichthey had surprised by treason, layd siege vnto the very same towne, whereinI my selfe abode, with many thousands of souldiers: neither were in thesayd towne on our part aboue 50. men of warre, whom, together with 20.cros-bowes, the captaine had left in garrison. All these, out of certeinehigh places, beholding the enemies vaste armie, and abhorring the beastlycrueltie of Antichrist his complices, signified foorthwith vnto theirgouernour, the hideous lamentations of his Christian subiects, who suddenlybeing surprised in all the prouince adioyning, without any difference orrespect of condition, fortune, sexe, or age, were by man

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