FIRST AMBASSAGE FROM RUSSIA a.d. 



1557- 

 and merchants, who in good gard set him aboord the 

 noble shippe, the Primrose Admiral to the Fleete, where 

 leave was taken on both sides and parts, after many 

 imbracements and divers farewels not without expressing 

 of teares. 



Memorandum, that the first day of May the Counsellers, The Kinga?id 

 videlicet, the Bishop of Elye, and Sir William Peter on Q^ens second 

 the behalfe of the Kings and Queenes Majesties repairing r m l S ro ° ur f 

 to the lorde Ambassadour did not onely deliver unto him Russia. 

 their highnes letters of recommendations under the great 

 seale of England to the Emperour, very tenderly and 

 friendly written, but also on their majesties behalfe gave 

 and delivered certaine notable presents to the Emperours 

 person, and also gifts for the lord Ambassadours proper 

 use and behoofe, as by the particulars under written 

 appeareth, with such further good wordes and com- 

 mendations, as the more friendly have not bin heard, 

 whereby it appeareth how well affected their honours be 

 to have and continue amitie and traffique betweene their 

 honours and their subjects : which thing as the kings and 

 Queenes majesties have shewed of their princely muni- 

 ficences & liberalities, so have likewise the merchants and 

 fellowship of the Adventurers, for and to Russia, 

 manifested to the world their good willes, mindes and 

 zeales borne to this new commensed voyage, as by the 

 discourse above mentioned, and other the notable actes 

 over long to be recited in this present memoriall, doeth 

 and may most clearely appeare, the like whereof is not in [I. 289.] 

 any president or historie to bee shewed. 



Forasmuch as it may bee doubted how the ship named 

 the Edward Bonaventure suffered shipwracke, what 

 became of the goods, howe much they were spoiled and 

 deteined, how little restored, what charges and expenses 

 ensued, what personages were drowned, how the rest of 

 the ships either arrived or perished, or howe the disposi- 

 tion of almightie God hath wrought his pleasure in them, 

 how the same ambassadour hath bene after the miserable 



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