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6L6 COXL’s TRAVELS IN RUSSIA.
Nicon furvived his depofition fifteen years. In 1681 he obtained permiffion to refurn
to the convent of Jerufalem, that he might end his days in that favourite fpot, but ex-
pired upon the road near Yaroflaf, in the 66th-year of his age. His remains were tran{-
ported to the convent of Jerufalem, and buried with all the ceremonies which are ufual
at the interment of Patriarchs *.
Cuap. V.—Ruffian Archives. —Englifh State-papers.—Commencement of the Connection
beiween the Courts of London and Mofcow.—Correfpondence between Queen Elizabeth
and the Tzar Ivan Vaffilievitch H.— His Demand of the Lady Anne Haftings in marriage.
—Account of that Negotiation.—Other Difpatches.—Rife of the Title of Tzar.—Nega-
tiation betwen Peter the Great and the European Courts relative to the Title of Emperor.
Univerfity.— Syllabus of the Lectures. —Matthai’s Catalogue of the Greek Manufcripts in
the Library of the Holy Synod.— Hymn to Ceres attributed to Homer.
MR. MULLER obligingly accompanied us to the place in the Khitaigorod, where the
public archives are depofited: it is a {trong brick building, containing feveral vaulted
apartments withiron floors. Thefe archives, confifting of numerous ftate-papers, were
crowded into boxes, and thrown afide like common lumber; until the prefent Emprefs
ordered them to be revifed and arranged. In conformity to this mandate, Mr. Muller
has difpofed them in chronological order, and any fingle document may be infpected
with little trouble. ‘They are enclofed in feparate cabinets with glafs doors: thofe rela-
tive to Ruffia are clafled according to the feveral provinces to which they relate; and
over each cabinet is infcribed the name of the province. In the fame manner the ma-
nufcripts relative to foreign kingdoms are placed in feparate divifions under the refpective
titles of Poland, Sweden, England, France,Germany, &c. The papers which concerned
my native country principally engaged my attention. The earlieft correfpondence be-
tween the fovereigns of England and Ruffia commenced in the middle of the fixteenth
century, foon after the difcovery of Archangel, and chiefly relates to the permiflion of
trade granted exclufively to the Englifh company of merchants fettled in Ruffia. The
firft record is an original letter of Philip and Mary to Ivan Vaflilievitch IL. acknowledg-
ing the receipt of a difpatch tranfmitted to England by his Ambaffador Ofef Niphea,
and returning thanks for the liberty of opening a free trade throughout the Ruffian
dominions. ‘The charter of privileges granted by the Tzar to the Englith merchants,
together with the numerous letters which he received from Elizabeth, are preferved in
this colleétion, and are moftly publifhed in Hackluyt’s Voyages: one, however, not
found in that work, is dated the 18th of May, 1570, in which Elizabeth, among other
expreffions of friendfhip, offers to Ivan Vaffilievitch, if compelled by an infurrection to
quit his country, an afylum in England. This letter was figned by Elizabeth in the
prefence of her fecret council; amongft the fignatures, I noticed the names of Bacon,
Leycefter, and Cecil.
Some hiltorians having afferted that Ivan Vaflilievitch II. carried his perfonal refpect
for Queen Elizabeth fo far as to be one of her fuitors; while Camden only relates, that
* For the Hiflory of Nicon, I have followed Muller in his Nachricht von Novogorod in S.R.G.
vol. v. p. 541 to 559. L’Evefque has alfo drawn from the fame fource a {pirited and candid account of
this great Patriarch, to which I acknowledge myfelf indebted for afew refleCtions. Hitt. de Rufie, vol. iit.
p 391 to 3943 alfo 417 to 430.
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