LETTER TO THE AGENTS 



A.D. 

 1557 



A letter of the Company of the Marchants 

 adventurers to Russia unto George Killing- 

 worth, Richard Gray, and Henry Lane their 

 Agents there, to be delivered in Colmogro or 

 els where : sent in the John Evangelist. 



Fter our heartie commendations unto you 1557. 

 and to either of you : your generall 

 letter and other particular letters with 

 two bookes of the sale and remainders of 

 our goods, and the buying of ware there 

 with you, we received about the ende 

 of November out of the Edward, with 

 heavie newes of the losse of the sayde good shippe and 

 goods at Petslego in Scotland, with the death of Richard 

 Chanceler and his Boy, with certaine of the Embassadours 

 servants, and he himselfe with nine of his servants escaped 

 very hardly onely by the power of God : but all his 

 goods and ours in maner were lost and pilfered away by 

 the Scots, and that that is saved is not yet come to 

 our hands, but we looke for it daily, and it will skant 

 pay the charges for the recovering of it. No remedy 

 but patience : and to pray to God to send us better 

 fortune hereafter. As touching the receiving and enter- 

 taining of the Embassadour and his retinewe since his 

 comming to England at the king and Queenes Majesties 

 hands, with the Counsell & Lords of this Realme, and 

 the Marchants that be free in Russia with feasting 

 and benevolence given him, wee referre it to his report 

 and others. The like we thinke have not bene seene nor 

 shewed here of a long time to any Ambassadour. The 

 Philip and Marie arrived here tenne dayes past : shee 

 wintered in Norway. The Confidence is lost there. 

 And as for the Bona Esperanza, as yet we have no 

 newes of her. We feare it is wrong with her. By 

 your billes of lading received in your generall letters 

 we perceive what wares are laden in them both. Your 



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