ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1554- 



the same to have wares for their returne. And they 

 have also delivered us your letters, which declare the 

 same request. And hereupon we have given order, 

 that wheresoever your faithful servant Hugh Willoughbie 

 land or touch in our dominions, to be wel entertained, 

 who as yet is not arrived, as your servant Richard can 

 declare. 



And we with Christian beliefe and faithfulnes, and 

 according to your honourable request, and my honour- 

 able commandement will not leave it undone : and are 

 furthermore willing that you send unto us your ships 

 and vessels, when and as often as they may have passage, 

 with good assurance on our part to see them harmelesse. 

 And if you send one of your majesties counsel to treate 

 with us whereby your countrey marchants may with all 

 kinds of wares, and where they will make their market 

 in our dominions, they shall have their free Marte with 

 all free liberties through my whole dominions with all 

 kinde of wares to come and goe at their pleasure, 

 without any let, damage or impediment, according to 

 this our letter, our word and our seale which we have 

 commaunded to be under sealed. Written in our 

 dominion, in our citie and our palace in the castle of 

 Mosco, in the yeare 7060, the second moneth of 

 February. 



This letter was written in the Moscovian tongue, in 

 letters much like to the Greeke letters, very faire 

 written in paper, with a broad seale hanging at the 

 same, sealed in paper upon waxe. This seale was much 

 like ye broad seale of England, having on the one 

 side the image of a man on horseback in complete 

 harnesse fighting with a dragon. Under this letter was 

 another paper written in the Dutch tongue, which was 

 the interpretation of the other written in the Moscovian 

 letters. These letters were sent the next yere after 

 the date of king Edwards letters, 1554. 



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