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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
1 Fletcher, Giles, Of the Russe Commonwealth (London, 1591)Google Scholar, facsimile edition by R. Pipes and J. V. A. Fine jr. (Cambridge, Mass., 1966). p. 41.
2 Ibid. p. 26.
3 Ibid. p. 34 verso.
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6 Cited in ibid. p. 575. The attribution to John Meyrick, an Englishman, is probable but not certain.
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22 Ibid. pp. 268–70.
23 Ibid. p. 209.
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