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Leule erhalte, die nùtzliche Kennlnisse und ailerhand teclinische Kiinste 

 daselbst verbreiteten'). 



Um dem Handel der nicht zur privilegirlen Gesellschaft gehorigen 

 Englander in Narwa Einhalt zu tliun, schicklen die Directoren im Herbst 

 1567 Lawrence Ma ni ey daliin; die Konigin gab ihni ein kurzes Schrei- 



') So schrieb er unterm 13. Juli 1567: «Qiioinrnus aulem navigalionem m Mos- 

 coviam perniiltere possimiis, videt nos Serenitas Vestra grarissimis non solum nostris 

 privatis, sed etiara religionis et reipublicae tolius christianae rationibus prohiberi. 

 Instruitur enim hostis, ut diximus, commeatn, inslriiHur, quod magis est, armis in 

 illa Barbaria inusilatis, instruitur, quod quidem maxime ducendem esse existrmamus, 

 artificibus ipsis, ita, ut etiamsi ad illum nihil praeterea importetur, tamen opéra arti- 

 ficum ipsorum, qui illi, vigente ejusmodi navigatione, libère summittuntur, facile 

 omnia simul et fabricentur in ipsa illius barbara ditione, quae usus ipsi belli re- 

 quirit, et quae uti bactenus ipsi ignota fuerunt». Am 3. Marz 1568 schrieb er: 

 «Cum enim hac navigatione recens admodum instituta, bostem non modo regni nosfri 

 temporarium sed etiam omnium nationum liberarum baereditarium, Moscum, magno- 

 pere instrui et armari videamus, non solum armis, telis, commeatu, quae, etsi magna, 

 sunt, tamen facilius profecto prohiberi possent, sed etiam aliis multo majoribus rébus, 

 quae neque satis ullo rousilio provideri, et bostem ipsum magis etiam juvare pos- 

 sunt, artificibus inquam ipsis, qui arma, qui tela, qui caetera ejusmodi in illa Bar- 

 baria nec visa nec audita hosti fabricare non cessant:, ac praeterea quod maxime 

 attendendum est, cognitione omnium, etiam secrelissimorum consiliorum' nostrorum, 

 quibus illi paulo post, ad interitum, quod absit, omnium nostrorum abutatur, speran- 

 dum profecto nobis esse non existimaraus, ut banc ejusmodi navigalionem liberam 

 esse paliamur». - Hakluy t bat eiuen Brief vonSigismund aus dieser Zeit gedruckt, 

 aber denselben irrig vom Jahr 1559 datirt. Hier steht: «We know the Moscowite 

 dayly to grow migbtier by the increase of such things as be brougbt to the Narve, 

 while not onely wares but also weapons beeretofore unknowen to bim, and artificers 

 and arts be brought unto him: by meane whereof he maketh himself strong to 

 vanquish ail others. We seemed hitherto to vanquish him onely in this, that he was 

 rude of arts, and ignorant of policies. M so be that this navigation to the Narve con- 

 tinue, what shall be unknowen to him? The Moscowite, with those things that be 

 brought to the Narve, and made more perfect in warlike affaires with engines of 

 warre and shippes, will slay or make bound ail that shall withstand him: which 

 God défend». 



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