48 MEMOIR OF 



Francis, our naturalist, and two daughters : 

 Letitia, married to Sir Thomas Wendy of 

 Haslingfield in Cambridgeshire, Knight of the 

 Bath ; and Catherine, married to Clement Win- 

 stanley, Esq. 



coveting to draw nigh your ships, which, if they shall 

 find be not well watched or warded, they will assault, 

 desirous of the bodies of men, which they covet for meate ; 

 if you resist them, they dive, and so will flee, and, there- 

 fore, diligent watch is to be kept in some islands both 

 night and day." 



Twelve counsellors were appointed for the voyage, by 

 whom " every measure which might be deemed expedient, 

 .was to be considered and determined agreeably to instruc- 

 tions." There is also a Latin and English copy of the 

 " letters missive which the right noble Prince Edward the 

 Sixth sent to the kings, princes, and the potentates in- 

 habiting the north-east parts of the world, towards the 

 mighty empire of Cathay : at such time as Sir Hugh de 

 Willoughby, Knt. and Richard Chancelor, with their 

 company, attempted their voyage thither in the yeere of 

 Christ, 1553, and the seventh and last yeere of his raigne." 



A note is added, stating that these letters missive were 

 written in Greeke and divers languages." "These foresaide 

 ships, being fully furnished with their pinnisses and boates, 

 uel-appointed with all manner of artillerie, departed from 

 Ratcliffe and haled unto Deptford the 10th day of May, 

 1553." 



Then follows the diary of Sir Hugh Willoughby, 

 beginning with May llth, 1553, with their departure from 

 Deptford. 



A few extracts from it may be permitted. 



' The llth day, about two of the clocke, we departed 

 from Deptford, passing by Greenwich, saluting the Kin^s 

 majesty then being there ; shooting off our ordnances, ana 

 flu haled to Blackwall, and there replied until tne i 7th 



