OSEP NAPEA'S RETURN HOME a.d. 



1557- 

 quantity thereof, we were licenced to depart, & so ended 



that dinner. And because the Emperour would have 



us to be mery, he sent to our lodging the same Evening 



three barrels of meade of sundry sortes, of the quantitie 



in all of one hogshed. 



The 16 day of September the Emperour sent home 

 unto our lodging for every of us a Tartarie horse to 

 ride from place to place as we had occasion, for that 

 the streetes of Mosco are very fowle and mirie in the 

 Summer. 



The 1 8 of September there were given unto master M. Standisk 

 Standish doctor in Phisick, and the rest of our men doctor of Pht- 

 of our occupations, certaine furred gownes of branched 

 velvet and gold, and some of red damaske, of which 

 master Doctors gowne was furred with Sables, and the 

 rest were furred some with white Ermine, and some 

 with gray Squirel, and all faced and edged round about 

 with blacke beaver. 



The 1 of October in the morning we were commanded 

 to come unto the Emperors court, and when we came 

 thither, we were brought unto the Emperor unto whom 

 we did our duties accordingly : wherupon he willed 

 us to dine with him that day, and so with thanks unto 

 his majestie, we departed untill dinner time, at which 

 time we came and found the tables covered with bread 

 and salt as at the first : & after that we were all set 

 upon one side of the table, the Emperors majestie 

 according to his accustomed maner sent unto every 

 man a piece of bread by some of the Dukes which 

 attended on his highnesse. 



And whereas the 14 of September we were served 

 in vessels of gold, we were now served in vessels of 

 silver, and yet not so abundantly as was the first of 

 gold : they brought drinke unto the table in silver 

 boles which conteined at the least sixe gallons a piece, 

 and everie man had a smal silver cuppe to drinke in, 

 & another to dip or to take his drinke out of the 

 great boll withall : the dinner being ended, the Emperour 



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