BEING A TRANSLATION OF THE Earliest Account of that Country, ENTITLED RERUM MOSCOVITICARUM COMMENTARII, BY THE BARON SIGISMUND VON HERBERSTEIN, AMBASSADOR FROM THE COURT OF GERMANY TO THE GRAND TRANSLATED AND EDITED, With Notes and an Entroduction, BY R. H. MAJOR, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. VOL. II, "if thou list to know the Russes well, To Sigismundus booke repayre, who all the trueth can tell." Turbervile, 1568. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY. M.DCCC.LII, THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY. SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., Corr. Mem. Inst. Fr., Hon. Mem. Imp. Acad. Sc. St. Petersburg, &c., &c., PRESIDENT. THE EARL OF ELLESMERE. VICE-PRESIDENTS. CAPT. C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, R.N., C.B. JOHN BARROW, Esq. REAR-ADMIRAL SIR FRANCIS BEAUFORT, K.C.B. CHARLES T. BEKE, Esq., Phil. D., F.S.A. THE LORD ALFRED S. CHURCHILL. WILLIAM DESBOROUGH COOLEY, Esq. BOLTON CORNEY, Esq., M.R.S.L. THE RIGHT REV. LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S. THE VISCOUNT EASTNOR. SIR HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S. RICHARD FORD, Esq. JOHN FORSTER, Esq. R. W. GREY, Esq., M.P. JOHN WINTER JONES, Esq. SIR CHARLES LEMON, BART., M.P. P. LEVESQUE, Esq. SIR GEORGE T. STAUNTON, BART., M.P. HENRY D. WOLFF, Esq. R. H. MAJOR, Esq., F.R.G.S., HONORARY SECRETARY. |