A.D. 

 1556. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



A discourse of the honourable receiving into 

 England of the first Ambassador from the 

 Emperor of Russia, in the yeere of Christ 

 1556. and in the third yeere of the raigne 

 of Queene Marie, serving for the third voyage 

 to Moscovie. Registred by Master John 

 Incent Protonotarie. 



T is here recorded by writing and autenti- 

 call testimonie, partly for memorie of 

 things done, and partly for the veritie 

 to be knowen to posteritie in time to 

 come, that whereas the most high and 

 mightie Ivan Vasilivich Emperour of all 

 Russia, great Duke of Volodemer, Mos- 

 covia and Novogrode, Emperor of Cassan, and of 

 Astrachan, Lord of Pleskie, and great Duke of Smo- 

 lenskie, Tuerskie, Yowgoriskie, Permskie, Viatskie, 

 Bolgarskie and Sibierskie, Emperour and great Duke 

 of many others, as Novogrode in the nether countries, 

 Chernigoskie, Rezanskie, Polodskie, Rezewskie, Bielskie, 

 Rostoskie, Yeraslaveskie, Bealozarskie, Oudarskie, Ob- 

 dorskie, Condenskie, and manie other countries, and 

 lord over all those partes, in the yeere of our Lord 

 God, folowing the account of ye Latin church, 1556. 

 sent by the sea from the port of S. Nicholas in Russia, 

 his right honorable ambassador sirnamed Osep Napea, 

 his high officer in the towne and countrey of Vologda, 

 to the most famous and excellent princes, Philip and 

 Mary by the grace of God, king and Queene of England, 

 Spaine, France and Ireland, defenders of the faith, Arch- 

 dukes of Austria, dukes of Burgundie, Millaine, & 

 Brabant, counties of Haspurge, Flanders and Tyroll, 

 his ambassador & Orator with certaine letters tenderly 

 conceived, together with certain presents and gifts men- 

 tioned in the foot of this memorial, as a manifest 

 argument and token of a mutual amity and friendship 



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