20 WOROTINE, 21 TUVER, 22 WOLODOMIR.
And now again we are in Europe, where the Great Duke hath almost as many Titles as Towns with Territorie: four of them (besides some before) either situate in the Province of Moscovie, or else so intermingled with the Towns thereof, that they may easily be taken (or mistaken) for members of it. The principall are,
20 WOROTIN, seated on the West side of the River Ocque, a distinct Dukedom of it self, so called from Worotin the chief Citie of it, built upon that River, about 3 Dutch miles from Colluga in the Province of Rhezan, lying on the further bank thereof; beautified with a strong Castle, and a pleasant soil. The 2 Misceneck, the next Town of note, remarkable for the head of the River Ocque, which ariseth in the fields thereof.
21 TVVER or OTVVER, as some call it, is a large and goodly Country lying along the banks of the River Volga: so populous that it is said to contain 40000 Boidres, or Gentlemen sit to serve on horseback, and double that number of the common or inferiour sort. It gives the title of a Duke to the Russian Emperour, and is so called from Twerde the chief Town thereof, and a Bishops See; affirmed to be a fairer and more stately Citie then Mosco it self, from which distant 36 Dutch miles.
22 WOLODOMIR is one of the most fruitfull Countries in all Russia, not paralleld by many Countries in the world; the soil here (if all be true, which is said of it) yeilding such an increase that many times the husbandman hath twenty and sometimes twenty five for one. It gives the title of a Duke to the Russian Emperour, and hath precedencie before Moscovie in the style Imperiall. So called from Wolodomir the chief Citie of it, and a Bishops See, and that so named from the Founder, who probably was the same Valadomir (one of the first Kings of the Russes) who married Helena the daughter of Nicephorus Phocas, Emperour of Constantinople. The Citie situate 36 Polonian miles on the East of Mosco, anciently the chief seat and residence of the Oreat Duke; and so continued till the time of John the son of Daniel, who first translated it to Mosco, that from thence he might more easily confront and oppose the Tartars, with whose irruptions and invasions both he and his predecessours had long been troubled. Under the government hereof is the City of Susdali, of great esteem and very well peopled as long as the Royall seat remained at Wolodomir, betwixt which and Rostow it is seated.