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Eustaphius the Abbat of Ierusalem, to present rich and
magnificent gifts vnto him; as namely, part of the crosse of Sauiour
Christ, a crowne of gold, a drinking cup curiously made of Sardonyx
stone, a cloake set all ouer with precious stones, and a golden chaine;
commaunded them to salute him by the name of Czar (which name, as
it may be prooued by many arguments, signifieth a king, and not an
Emperour) and concluded a most inuiolable league of amity and
friendship with him.
The foresayd Vulodimir begate Vuszeuolodus the second. This
Vuszeuolodus lefte eight sonnes behind him, Miscislaus, Isoslaus,
Stoslaus, Teropolcus, Weceslaus, Romanus, Georgius, and Andrew.
The sonnes of George were Roseslaus, Andrew, Basilius, and
Demetrius.
Demetrius begat George, in the yeere 1237. was slaine by one Bathy, a
Tartarian duke, which Bathy wasted Moscouia, and subdued the same
vnto himselfe. Since which time the Russians were tributary to the
Tartars, and were gouerned by such dukes as they pleased to set ouer
them. Howbeit the Tartars so greatly abused that authoritie, that when

they sent their ambassadours vnto the prince of Moscouie, he was
constrained to goe forth and meete with them, and (as Herbortus
Fulstinius in his Polonian historie reporteth) to offer them a bason full
of mares milke, and if they had spilt any whit thereof vpon their horses
maines, to licke it off with his toung, and hauing conducted them into
his princely court, to stand bareheaded before them while they sate
downe, and with all reuerence to giue eare and attendance vnto them.
But by what meanes they shooke off at the length this yoake of
seruitude, I will forthwith declare.
About the same time almost all Polonia, and the dukedome of Silesia
were ouerrun by the Tartars with fire and sword. Who hauing burnt
Presla the chiefe citie of Silesia, and being come before the citie of
Legnitz, they fought there a most cruel and bloody field, wherin was
slain Duke Henrie himselfe being sonne vnto the most holy and deuout
lady Heduice, with many others, whose monuments and graues be as
yet extant in sundry places, and with an infinite multitude of common
souldiers, insomuch that the Tartars filled nine great sackes with the
eares of them which they had slaine. The Tartars to the end they might
obtaine the victorie, presented vnto the view of our souldiers the
portrature of a mans head placed by arte magique vpon a banner,
wherein the letter X. was painted, which being shaken and mooued vp
and downe breathed foorth a most loathsome stench, and strooke such a
terrour into the hearts of our men, that being as it were astonished with
the snaky visage of Medusa, they were vtterly daunted and dismayed.
From thence Bathy and his company with the same bloodthirstie intent
marched into Hungarie, and had almost slaine king Bela the fourth,
who together with his sonne escaping by flight did scarcely ridde
themselues out of the enemies hand. And when the whole world almost
was exceedingly terrified at the cruel inuasions of this most barbarous
nation, at length Pope Innocentius the fourth sending ambassadours
[Marginal note: These ambassadours were Iohan. de Plano Carpini and
Frier Benedict a Polonian.] vnto Bathy obtained peace for fiue yeeres:
but to forsake his heathenish superstitions and to become a Christian,
he would by no meanes bee perswaded. For he was by the instigation of
the Saracens infected with deuilish opinions of Mahomet, as being
more agreeable vnto his barbarous rudenes, which euen vnto this day
the Tartars do maintaine, like as the prophane Turkes also.

This Bathy had a sonne called Tamerlan, whome the Mosoouites call
Temirkutla, who likewise, as it is recorded in histories, attained vnto
great renoume. For he caried about with him in a cage Baiazet the
Turkish Emperour being fettered in golden chaines, and made him a
laughing stocke vnto all men.
Let vs now retume vnto the Russians. George being slaine, Iaroslaus
his brother succeeded in his room, and left behinde him three sonnes,
Theodorus, Alexander, and Andreas. Daniel the sonne of Alexander
first established his royal seat in the citie of Mosco, and magnificently
building the Castle which before time had been obscure, he tooke vpon
him the title of the great Duke of Russia. He had fiue sonnes, namely,
George, Alexander, Borissus, Ophonias, and Iohn. This Iohn succeeded
his father, and because he continually caried a scrippe about with him
to bestow almes, he was sirnamed Kaleta, which word signifieth a
scrippe. His sonnes were, Simeon, Iohn, and Andrew. He gaue vnto his
sonne Simeon the prouinces of Vvlodimiria and Moscouia: which
Simeon deceasing without issue his brother Iohn succeeded, who
begate a son called Demetrius. This Demetrius had seuen sonnes,
namely, Daniel, Basilius, George, Andrew, Peter, Iohn, and