ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1558. 



with his golde ring. Your two pieces of money (Master 



Gray) that you sent to your wife and daughter, with my 



two pieces of Boghary money. Of all this I had eight 



Hungers gilderns delivered mee the thirde weeke of mine 



imprisonment to paye for my charges, which stoode mee 



in a Doller a weeke. So that at the day of my deliverie 



1 had but three gyldernes left me. For the rest I made 



a supplication to the Captaine and had the like answere 



given mee as the Marshall gave me. So that all the rest 



of the thinges before written are lost, and no recoverie 



to bee had, which grieveth me more for the tokens sakes 



then doeth mine eight weeks imprisonment. They have 



also my sword, my bootes, my bowe and arrowes that I 



bought at Smolensco, which cost me foure marks, my 



sled, my felt, the comhold, a booke of the Flowres of 



godly prayers, and my booke wherein my charges were 



written. Of all these I can get nothing againe, not so 



much as my two bookes. 



After I had remayned there five and thirtie dayes, I 



was had before the Captaine up into a great chamber to 



bee examined for letters and of the cause of my comming 



through the Countrey. In the Captaines companie was 



one of the Lordes of Danske. They demaunded of mee 



where my letters were, I declared unto them that I had 



none : your Officers (sayd I) tooke me when I was in 



my bedde, they searched mee and tooke all that I had 



from mee, if there be any they shall finde them among my 



stuffe which they have. They asked mee then, for what 



cause I went home over lande ? I declared unto them, 



that the Winter beeing a warme season, and having 



intelligence that The frozen Sea was not much frozen, 



and supposing this Sommer it would be navigable, I was 



onely sent to provide a Shippe to bee sent to passe the 



sayde Seas to discover Cataia : which if God graunted 



wee might doe, it woulde not onely bee a commoditie to 



the Realme of Englande, but unto all Christian landes, 



by the riches that might bee brought from thence, if the 



histories bee true that are written thereof. Much other 



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