The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English People, vol 2

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Title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries

of the English People, v. 2 Northeastern Europe and Adjacent
Countries. Part 1. Tartary
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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 and
other sinnes committed among vs Christians, is become, as it were, a
destroying enemie, and a dreadful auenger. This I may iustly affirme to
be true, because an huge nation, and a barbarous and inhumane people,
whose law is lawlesse, whose wrath is furious, euen the rod of Gods
anger, ouerrunneth, and vtterly wasteth infinite countreyes, cruelly
abolishing all things where they come, with fire and sword. And this
present Summer, the foresayd nation, being called Tartars, departing

out of Hungarie, which they had surprised by treason, layd siege vnto
the very same towne, wherein I my selfe abode, with many thousands
of souldiers: neither were in the sayd 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 certeine high places, beholding the enemies
vaste armie, and abhorring the beastly crueltie of Antichrist his
complices, signified foorthwith vnto their gouernour, the hideous
lamentations of his Christian subiects, who suddenly being surprised in
all the prouince adioyning, without any difference or respect of
condition, fortune, sexe, or age, were by manifolde cruelties, all of
them destroyed with whose carkeises, the Tartarian chieftains, and their
brutish and sauage followers, glutting themselues, as with delicious
cates, left nothing for vultures but the bare bones. And a strange thing it
is to consider, that the greedie