INDEX 



Priego, Earl of, assistant of the city 



of Seville (1596) x. 252. 

 Priesthood, dignity of first estate 



in Japan, vi. 329. 

 Priests, Russian, 11. 442 ; Persian, 



III. 162 ; marriage of, in Iceland 

 (1544) IV. 58, 157; high, in Japan, 

 VI. 329 ; holiness of, 335. 



Prima Vista, discovered by John and 

 Sebastian Cabot (1497) vii. 146. 



' Primera Parte de las Elegias de 

 Varones lllustres de Indias,' by 

 Juan de Castellanos, x. 496. 



Primrose, Russian ambassador re- 

 turns home on the, 11. 359; flag- 

 ship, captain, Anthony Jenkinson 

 (1557) 375. 413; John Buckland, 

 master, 380. 



Primrose, the, and the first voyage 

 to Guinea (1553) vi. 145; gold 

 received by, 163 ; shells on the 

 keel of, 175 ; uncertainty of the 

 fate of (1561) 255, 256; William 

 Rutter in (1563) 261 ; escape of 



(1585) 413- 

 Primrose, the. Sir Martin Frobisher, 



captain of (1585) x. 98. 

 Princes, right government of, iv. 



281. 

 Principe Island, discovered by the 



Portuguese, viii. 127. 

 Pringle, Richard, voyage into Persia 



(1569) III. 136; at Shemakha, 137; 



bearer of Anthony Jenkinson 's 



letter (1572) 193. 

 Printing, Chinese, vi, 359. 

 Printing house, first, in Iceland 



(1568) IV. 59, 158. 

 Prior's Sound, discovered by Martin 



Frobisher (1576) vii. 208. 

 Priour, John, of King's Lynn, and 



Prussian pirates, 11. 70. 

 Prise, Edward, merchant in Russia, 



II. 291. 

 Prisena, Henry Austell at (1585) v. 



322. 

 Prison for galley slaves, near Alex- 

 andria (1577) V. 156, 260; Chris- 

 tians in the, 157. 

 Prisoners, English, in Spain (1596) 



IV. 266; English, of the Armada, 

 urged to serve the King of Spain, 

 by Morice Fitz-John (1591) vii. 50; 

 English sailors, in Terceira (1589) 



70 ; English, murdered by a Span- 

 iard (1590) 72; English, in Ter- 

 ceira (1591) 83; English hostages 

 in Mexico, and Anthony Godard 

 and his men (1568) ix. 422 ; An- 

 thony Godard and his men, in 

 Tescuco (1568) 421, 459; English 

 sailors at Havana (1570) 460; 

 condemned by the Inquisition of 

 Seville (1570) 463; English, in 

 Cumana, exchanged by Captain 

 Parker for his Spanish prisoners 

 (1596) X. 277; Russian, set at 

 liberty (1584) iii. 344; Spanish, 

 in England (1588) iv. 214 ff. 

 Prisons in China, description of, vi. 



Pristaves, Russian court officials, 

 III. 105. 



Privileges, granted to the Muscovy 

 Company by Ivan Vasiliwich, 

 Emperor of Russia (1555) 11. 

 297 ff., 315; by King of 

 Shirvan (1563) iii.^ 33, 39; 

 by the Shah of Persia, 56, 144; 

 granted by Shah of Persia (1567) 

 64; by Prince of Gilan, 61; by 

 Russian Emperor (1567) 92-97; by 

 Russian Emperor (1569) 108-118; 

 restricted to them in Russia, 97, 

 187, 189 ; obtained for, by Sir 

 Jerome Horsey, 347-353 ; withdrawn 

 by him (1572) 187 sq. ; obtained 

 by Giles Fletcher, 353-357; Eng- 

 lish trade increased by, 206 ; granted 

 to the first Levant Company, by 

 Murad Khan (1579) v. 169; to the 

 second Levant Company (1580) 

 178, 183 ; granted by Queen Eliza- 

 beth to Sir Edward Osborne and 

 Richard Staper for the Levant 

 Company (1581) 192 ; restricted 

 to the Levant Company, 197 ; 

 of the Levant Company liable 

 to be withdrawn for misdemean- 

 our (1581) 200; for English trade, 

 to be enforced by Edward Barton 

 (1584) 274 ; granted by Peter, Prince 

 of Moldavia (1588) vi. 59; granted 

 by Queen Elizabeth (1592) 73- 

 92 ; of the Levant trade, restricted 

 to the Levant Company (1592) 83 ; 

 87 ; of the Emperor of Morocco, 

 to the Barbary Campany (1577) 



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