The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, vol 3

The Principal Navigations,
Voyages, Traffiques, and
Discoveries of The English
Nation, vol 3, North-Eastern
Europe and Adjacent Countries
part 2

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Title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries
of The English Nation, v3 North-Eastern Europe and Adjacent
Countries
Part II. The Muscovy Company and the
North-Eastern Passage
Author: Richard Hakluyt
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** Transcriber's Notes **
The printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains
the spelling and abbreviations of Hakluyt's 16th-century original. In
this version, the spelling has been retained, but the following
manuscript abbreviations 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
footnotes are added by the editor. They follow modern (19th-century)

spelling conventions. Those that don't are Hakluyt's (and are not always
systematically marked as such by the editor). The sidenotes are
Hakluyt's own. Summarizing sidenotes are labelled [Sidenote: ] and
placed before the sentence to which they apply. Sidenotes that are
keyed with a symbol are labeled [Marginal note: ] and placed at the
point of the symbol, except in poetry, where they are moved to the
nearest convenient break in the text.
** End Transcriber's Notes **
THE PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS, VOYAGES, TRAFFIQUES AND
DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NATION.
Collected by
RICHARD HAKLUYT, PREACHER,
and Editied by
Edmund Goldsmid, F.R.H.S
VOL. III.
NORTH-EASTERN EUROPE AND ADJACENT COUNTRIES.

PART II.
THE MUSCOVY COMPANY AND THE NORTH-EASTERN
PASSAGE.

Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries IN
NORTH-EASTERN EUROPE.
A briefe Treatise of the great Duke of Moscouia his genealogie, being
taken out of the Moscouites manuscript Chronicles written by a
Polacke.
It hath almost euer bene the custome of nations, in searching out the
infancie and first beginnings of their estate, to ascribe the same vnto
such authors as liued among men in great honour and endued mankinde
with some one or other excellent benefite. Nowe, this inbred desire of
all nations to blaze and set foorth their owne petigree hath so much
preuayled with the greater part, that leauing the vndoubted trueth, they
haue betaken themselues vnto meere fables and fictions. Yea and the
Chronicles of many nations written in diuers and sundrie ages doe

testifie the same. Euen so the Grecians boasted that they were either
Autocthones, that is earthbredde, or els lineally descended from the
Gods. And the Romans affirme that Mars was father vnto their first
founder Romulus. Right well therefore and iudicially sayth Titus Liuius:
Neither meane I to auouch (quoth he) ne to disable or confute those
thinges which before the building and foundation of the Citie haue
beene reported, being more adorned and fraught with Poeticall fables
then with incorrupt and sacred monuments of trueth: antiquitie is it to
be pardoned in this behalfe, namely in ioyning together matters
historicall and poeticall, to make the beginnings of cities to seeme the
more honourable. For sith antiquity it selfe is accompted such a notable
argument of true nobility, euen priuate men in all ages haue contended
thereabout. Wherefore citizens of Rome being desirous to make
demonstration of their Gentrie, vse to haue their auncestors armes
painted along the walles of their houses: in which regarde they were so
puffed vp, that oftentimes they would arrogantly disdaine those men,
which by their owne vertue had attained vnto honour. In like sorte
Poets, when the originall of