[Sidenote: Humfrey Greensell Burnt At Ormus.] Lionel Plumtree, In The Meane Time That M. Ducket Was At Casbin In Sute For Goods, Vpon The Perswasion Of Certaine Bogharians, Made Prouision For A Iourney To Cathaia, With Cariages And Commodities, And Hauing All Things Ready, Departed Secretly With A Carauan:

But being gone forwards on his way sixe dayes iourny, some fifty horsemen by the procurement of Humfrey Greensell

(Who afterwards being at Ormus in the East Indies, was there cruelly burnt in the Inquisition by the Portingals) were sent after him in poste from Sultan Erasbec, the Shaughs lieutenant, to fetch him backe againe, not suffering him to passe on so perillous and dangerous a iourney for feare of diuers inconueinces that might follow.

After this M. Ducket returned from Casbin to Shamaky againe, and immediately made preparation for a iourney to Cassan, being about foure dayes iourney from Shamaky, and caried with him foure mules laden with mony.

In the way of his trauel he passed through Persepolis, sometime the roiall seate of the Emperors of Persia, but now ruined and defaced, whereof remaine to be seene at this day two gates onely that are distant one from the other the space of 12 miles, and some few pinnacles in the mountains and conueiances for fresh water.

The foresaid Cassan is a towne that consisteth altogether of merchandise, and the best trade of all the land is there, being greatly frequented by the merchants of India.

Here our men bought great store of al maner of wrought silkes, and some spices, and good store of Turkie stones.

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