A.D. 

 1554. 



The Dutch 

 nation lost 

 their privi- 

 leclgesy y 

 renued them 

 with a great 

 summe. 



The commodi- 

 ties of Russia. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



seller must make report to of the Master of the beame : 

 they also pay a certaine horse toll, which is in divers 

 places of his Realme foure pence of a horse. 



The Dutch nation are free of this : notwithstanding 

 for certaine offences, they had lost their priviledges 

 which they have recovered this Summer to their 

 great charge. It was reported to me by a Justice 

 of that countrey, that they paied for it thirtie thousand 

 Rubbles, and also that Rye, Dorpte and Revel have 

 yeelded themselves under the government of the Em- 

 perour of Russia : whether this was a bragge of the 

 Russes or not, I know not, but thus he sayd, and in 

 deed whiles we were there, there came a great Am- 

 bassadour out of Liefland, for the assurance of their 

 priviledges. 



To speake somewhat of the commodities of this 

 countrey, it is to be understood, that there is a certaine 

 place foure score miles from the Sea called Colmogro : 

 to which place there resorte all the sortes of Wares 

 that are in the North parts, as Oyles, Salt, Stockfish, 

 Salmon, Fethers and Furres : their Salt they make of 

 saltwater by the sea side : their Oyles they make of 

 Seales, whereof they have great store which is brought 

 out of the Bay where our shippes came in : they make 

 it in the Spring of the yeere, and bring it to Colmogro 

 to sell, and the merchants there carie it to Novogrode, 

 and so sell it to the Dutch nation. Their Stockeflsh 

 and Salmon commeth from a place called Mallums, not 

 farre from Wardhouse : their Salmon and their Salt 

 they carrie to Mosco, and their drie fish they carrie to 

 Novogrode, and sell it there to the Lieflanders. 



The Furres and Fethers which come to Colmogro, as 

 Sables, Beavers, Minkes, Armine, Lettis, Graies, Wool- 

 verings, and white Foxes, with Deere skinnes, they are 

 brought thither, by the men of Penninge, Lampas, and 

 Powstezer, which fetch them from the Samoedes that 

 are counted savage people : and the merchants that 

 bring these Furres doe use to trucke with the merchants 



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