THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Alcan Murcy, see Murcy. 



Alcane de Barasoga, mentioned in 

 the Ruttier, x. 304. 



Alcantara, English troops at (1589) 

 VI. 500. 



Alcatrarsa, see Alcatrazes. 



Alcatrarses, see Gannets. 



Alcatrazes Island, xi. 35, 39, 83, 

 353; Sir John Hawkins at (1564) 

 X. 16; origin of name, x. 16. 



Alcayre, Portuguese measure, vi. 

 152. 



Alcazar, battle of, death of Thomas 

 Stukeley at, xii. 102. 



Alcock, Thomas (d. 1564), voyage in 

 Russia, I. xlv. ; letter from, 11. 396- 

 399; sent to prison, 397; Bearer 

 of the Muscovy Company's letter, 

 405, 407 ; servant of the Muscovy 

 Company, m. 33, 37, 335; 2nd 

 voyage to Persia (1563) 40; mur- 

 dered, 42, 49; his debts lost, 47; 

 on Russia, iii. 100. 



Alcoran, see Koran. 



Alcuin, Epistle on foreign trade, i. 

 311 f. 



Alday, James, letter to Michael 

 Locke (1575) HI. 197-200; VI. 

 136. 



Alday, William, in Cairo, and Laur- 

 ence Aldersey (1586) vi. 45. 



Aldenborg, Theodoricus, Earl of, 

 i6th Master of the Dutch Knights 

 (1352) n. 6. 



Alderney Island, John Chidley at 

 (1590) XI. 384. 



Aldersey, Laurence, ist voyage of 

 (1581) V. 202-214; 2nd voyage of, 

 to Egypt (1586) VI. 39-46; 

 bearer of Queen Elizabeth's let- 

 ters to the Emperor of Ethiopia 

 (1597) vii. 129, 131. 



Aldridg, see Aldridge. 



Aldridge, Sir John, knighted at 

 Cadiz (1596) IV. 259. 



Aldridge, William, Thomas Cordall's 

 servant, and Laurence Aldersey 

 (1586) VI. 40; bearer of a letter 

 from the Sultana to Queen Eliza- 

 beth (1593) VI. 102. 



Aldworth, Richard, of the Levant 

 Company (1592) vi. 88. 



Aldworth, Thomas, mayor of Bristol, 

 Sir Francis Walsingham's letter 



to (1582) VIII. 132; his answer 



(1583) VIII. 133. 

 Alebrandus, see Brandan. 

 Alegranza, one of the Canaries, 



VIII. 407, X. 281 ; latitude of, x. 



332. 



Alemania, see Germany. 



Alengon, Duke of. brother to the 

 King of France, in England (1586) 

 VI. 52. 



Alenson, see Alencon. 



Alepine, weight of Bussorah, v. 11. 



Alepo, see Aleppo. 



Aleppo, I. 154, III. 141 ; the Sultan of, 

 I. 78, 154; cloth brought to Bok- 

 hara from, II. 473, III. 57, 58, 62 ; 

 silk market in, 144, 148; Solyman 

 and his army at (1553) v. 105, 107 ; 

 gifts to Sol3'^man by the Pasha 

 of, V. 118; Pasha of, at siege of 

 Famagusta (1571) v. 148, 152; 

 Richard Forster, consul at (1583) 

 V. 260; commandment for (1584) v. 

 290; Caesar Frederick at (1563) v. 

 366 ; Caravan from Babylon to 

 (1567) V. 445 ; John Newbery's 

 letter from, to Richard Hakluyt 

 (1583) V. 452 ; to Leonard Poore, 

 V'. 453; John Newbery at (1583) 



V. 456; Ralph Fitch at (1583) v. 

 465. (1591) V. 505; Cosmopolitan 

 population of (1584) v. 506; John 

 Eldred at (1583) vi. 2, 8; English 

 Consuls at, vi. 9; charges from, 

 to Goa, VI. 23 ; retinue of the 

 Beglerbeg of (1588) vi. 67; Pasha 

 of, and Richard Wrag (1594) vi. 

 106; Cosmopolitan mart at (1594) 



VI. 108; English consul at, xii. 

 102. 



Alera, river in Saxony, black- 

 coloured water in, iv. 38, 134. 



Alexander the Great, and Derbent, i. 

 261, III. 20; poisoned by the Styx, 

 IV. 39, 135 ; and King Porus, iv. 

 412 ; and the Ichthyophagi, vi. 

 170 ; experience in India, vii. 185 ; 

 and Calanus the Indian, x. 484. 



Alexander II., King of Scotland, i. 

 35 ; sends ships to conquer the 

 Islands, 40. 



Alexander III., King of Scotland, 

 becomes King of the Islands (1266) 

 I. 41. 



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