GEORGE KILLINGWORTH 



A.D. 



1555- 



The letter of M. George Killingworth the com- [I. 263.] 

 panies first Agent in Moscovie, touching their 

 interteinement in their second voyage. Anno 

 1555. the 27. of November in Mosco. 



Ight worshipfull, my duetie considered, &c. 

 It may please your worship to understand, 

 that at the making hereof we all be in 

 good health, thanks be to God, save onely 

 William our cooke as we came from Col- 

 mogro fell into the river out of the boate, 

 and was drowned. And the 1 1 . day of 

 September wee came to Vologda, and there we laide all 

 our wares up, and sold very litle : but one marchant 

 would have given us 12. robles for a broad cloth, 

 & he said he would have had them all, and 4. altines 

 for a pound of sugar, but we did refuse it because he 

 was the first, and the marchants were not come thither, 

 nor would not come before Winter, trusting to have 

 more : but I feare it will not be much better. Yet 

 notwithstanding we did for the best. And the house 

 that our wares lie in costs from that day until Easter 

 ten robles. And the 28. day of September we did 

 determine with our selves that it was good for M. 

 Gray, Arthur Edwards, Thomas Hautory, Christopher 

 Hudson, John Segewicke, Richard Johnson, and Richard 

 Judde, to tarie at Vologda, and M. Chancelor, Henry 

 Lane, Edward Prise, Robert Best and I should goe to 

 Mosco. And we did lade the Emperours suger, with 

 part of all sort of wares to have had to the Mosco 

 with us, but the way was so deepe, that we were faine 

 to turne back, and leave it stil at Vologda till the 

 frost. And we went forth with poste horse, & the 

 charge of every horse being stil ten in number, comes 

 to io.s. 7«d. halfe penie, besides the guides. And wee 

 came to the Mosco the 4. day of October, and were 

 lodged that night in a simple house : but the next day 



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