RICHARD CHANCELOR a.d. 



1553- 



The Testimonie of M. Richard Eden in his 

 Decades, concerning the Booke following. 



ND whereas (saith he) I have before made 

 mention howe Moscovie was in our time 

 discovered by Richard Chanceler in his 

 voyage toward Cathay, by the direction 

 and information of M. Sebastian Cabota, 

 who long before had this secret in his 

 minde : I shall not neede here to describe 

 that voyage, forasmuch as the same is largely and faith- 

 fully written in the Latine tongue, by that learned yong 

 man Clement Adams, schoolemaster to the Queenes 

 henshmen, as he received it at the mouth of the said 

 Richard Chanceler. 



The newe Navigation and discoverie of the king- [1. 243.] 

 dome of Moscovia, by the Northeast, in the 

 yeere 1553: Enterprised by Sir Hugh Wil- 

 loughbie knight, and perfourmed by Richard 

 Chancelor Pilot major of the voyage : Written 

 in Latine by Clement Adams. 



T what time our Marchants perceived the 

 commodities and wares of England to 

 bee in small request with the countreys 

 and people about us, and neere unto us, 

 and that those Marchandizes which 

 strangers in the time and memorie of our 

 auncesters did earnestly seeke and desire, 

 were nowe neglected, and the price thereof abated, 

 although by us carried to their owne portes, and all 

 forreine Marchandises in great accompt, and their prises 

 wonderfully raised: certaine grave Citizens of London, 

 and men of great wisedome, and carefull for the good of 

 their Countrey, began to thinke with themselves, howe 

 this mischiefe might bee remedied. Neither was a 



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Upon what 

 occasions, and 

 by whom this 

 voyage was 

 set out, and of 

 the discoverie 

 of Moscovie 

 by the North. 





