A.D. 

 I554- 



[I. 258.] 



Two sorts of 

 ft axe. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



serve better and with lesse charge then they of Rye or 

 Dorpt, or Revel : for it is no smal adventure to bring 

 their clothes out of Flanders to either of these places, and 

 their charge not litle to cary them over lande to Novo- 

 grode, which is from Rye nine hundred Russian miles. 



This Novogrode is a place wel furnished with flaxe, 

 Waxe, Hides, tallow and many other things : the best 

 flaxe in Russia is brought thither and there sold by the 

 hundred bundles, which is done also at Vologda, and they 

 that bring the flaxe to Novogrode, dwell as neere 

 Vologda, as Novogrode, and when they heare of the 

 utterance which they may have with our nation, they wil 

 as willingly come to them as goe to other. 



They have in Russia two sorts of flaxe, the one is 

 called great flaxe, and the other small : that which they 

 call great flaxe is better by foure rubbles in 100. bundels 

 then the small : It is much longer then the other, and 

 cleaner without wood : and whereas of the small flaxe 

 there goe 27. or 28 bundles to a shippound, there goeth 

 not of the greater sort above 22. or 24 at the most. 

 There are many other trifles in Russia, as sope, mats, 

 &c. but I thinke there will bee no great account made 

 of them. 



The letters of king Philip and Queene Marie to 

 Ivan Vasilivich the Emperour of Russia 

 written the first of April 1555 and in the 

 second voyage. 



Hilip and Marie by the grace of God, King 

 and Queene of England, France, Naples, 

 Jerusalem, and Ireland, defenders of the 

 faith, Princes of Spaine and Sicilie, Arch- 

 dukes of Austrich, Dukes of Burgundie, 

 Millaine, and Brabant, Counties of Has- 

 purge, Flanders, and Tiroll : To the right 

 High, right Mightie, and right excellent Prince, garnished 

 with all gifts of nature, by Gods grace John Vasilivich 



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