A.D. 



1558. 



White hawks 

 y white 

 beares pro- 

 hibited with- 

 out licence. 



Master 

 Grayes jour- 

 ney toLampas. 



1558. 



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THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Vologda. Also if you shall so thinke meet, your waxe 

 and tallowe shall bee laden in two Dosnickes, for they 

 bee meete to goe aboord the shippes : I doe intend to set 

 up an house at Boroseva over against the place whereas 

 the shippes shall ride, your advise therein I expect, it shall 

 not cost above three robles, and yet if we will, there shall 

 be two warme roomes in it. As for other matter at this 

 present I have not to trouble you withall, and if it would 

 please you I would be glad to heare some good newes of 

 Master Jenkinson. Thus Jesus be with you and be his 

 guide. 



Postscriptum. 



As for these our Hawkes they bee not white, but white 

 and mayled, but indeede are Jarfawkons. These dayes 

 past our Olen died. So this yeere our Masters of the 

 companie are like to have none, nor any white beares. 

 Neither may any passe out of the realme without a special 

 licence from the Emperour. 



I intend God willing to goe to Lampas, if I doe I will 

 take foure or five kerseys with me, but as for money there 

 is small store here to carie. 



Yours, Richard Gray. 



A letter of Thomas Alcocke to the worshipfull 

 Richard Gray, and Henrie Lane Agents in 

 Moscovia from Tirwill in Polonia, written in 

 Tirwill the 26. of Aprill 1558. 



MY duety premised unto your worships, with com- 

 mendations &c. It may please you to be adver- 

 tised, y l my last I sent from Smolensco, which I trust you 

 have received w* other letters to divers of our English 

 men, wherein I certified you of my long retayning there, 

 as also of my departure from thence, and howe that I had 

 hired a Totar to bring mee to Danske. We came to a 

 certaine village on Satterday the sixe and twentieth of 

 Februarie, and there remained that night and Sunday to 

 refresh our horses, intending to have gone away on 



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