FIRST AMBASSAGE FROM RUSSIA a.d. 



1556. 



to be made and continued betweene their majesties & 

 subjects respectively, for the commoditie and benefit of 

 both the realmes and people : which Orator was the 

 20. day of July imbarked and shipped in, and upon a 

 good English ship named the Edward Bonaventure, 

 belonging to the Governor, Consuls and company of 

 English marchants, Richard Chancelor being grand Pilot, 

 and John Buckland master of the said ship. In which 

 was laden at the adventure of the foresaid Ambas- 

 sador, and marchants at severall accounts, goods & 

 merchandizes, viz. in waxe, trane oyle, tallow, furres, 

 felts, yarne and such like, to the summe of 20ooo.li. 

 sterling, together with 16. Russies attendant upon the 

 person of the said Ambassador. Over and above ten Foure ships. 

 other Russies shipped within the said Bay of S. Nicholas, 

 in one other good ship to the said company also belonging 

 called the Bona Speranza, with goods of the said Orators 

 & marchants to the value of 6000. lib. sterling, as by the 

 invoises and letters of lading of the said several ships 

 (wherunto relation is to be had) particularly appeareth. 

 Which good ships comming in good order into the seas, 

 & traversing the same in their journey towards the coast 

 of England, were by contrary windes and extreme tem- 

 pests of weather severed the one from the other, that is 

 to say, the saide Bona Speranza with two other English 

 ships also appertaining to the saide company, the one 

 sirnamed the Philip and Mary, the other the Confidentia, 

 were driven on the coast of Norway, into Drenton water, 

 where the saide Confidentia was seene to perish on a 

 Rocke, and the other, videlicet, the Bona Speranza, with 

 her whole company, being to the number of foure and 

 twentie persons seemed to winter there, whereof no cer- 

 taintie at this present day is knowen. The third, vide- 

 licet, the Philip and Mary arrived in the Thames nigh 

 London the eighteenth day of April, in the yeere of our 

 Lord one thousand five hundred fiftie and seven. The [I. 286.] 

 Edward Bonaventure traversing the seas foure moneths, The Edward 

 finally the tenth day of November of the aforesaide yeere Bonaventure 



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