522 A. D. 1555- 



tain, and obferve all the aforefaid privileges, &c. and for that purpofe 

 has put his fignet thereto. 



Another inetfecT^nal law was made [2, 3 Pbil. et Mor. c. 5.I for con- 

 fir-ning former ineflfedual ones of Henry VIIT and Edward VI, for 

 g ihering wc! kly relief for the aged and impotent poor of every parifh, 

 by the charitable devotion of the inhabitants, &c. and ordering that 

 a poor man licenced to beg fliould wear a badge on his bread and back 

 openlv *. 



151^6. — At this time the merchants of London had fadors fettled in 

 the Caviaries, as we learn from an account of a voyage by Thomfon an 

 Envlifhiiian. who in his pafluge from Cadiz to New Spain, found ihem 

 there. He relates, that when he was at Mexico, in the year 1556, there 

 were not above 1500 families of Spaniards in that great city ; but that 

 in the fuburbs there were computed to be at leafl: 300,000 Indian in- 

 habitants. 



Captain Stephen Burrough, in the Ruflia company's fervice, 

 failed northward towards Nova Zembla, in order to difcover the great 

 river Oby, in the Tartarian fea ; but he was unable to pafs the ftraits 

 of Wey;.,ats, becaufe of the huge quantities of ice, and therefor return- 

 ed unfuccefsful. 



The Rullia company fent out two (hips, which returned the fame 

 year with the two fhips which had been frozen up in Lapland in 1553, 

 (in one of which was Sir Hugh Willoughby's body.) They alfo 

 brought over an ambaflador from Ruflia to Queen Mary ; but he being 

 fliipwrecked on the coafl of Scotland, loft almoft all the fine prefents 

 he had brought for the king and queen : yet being on his return, he 

 received fundry rich prefents for the czar, and alio for himfelf. 



1557 The next year the company fent tour veflels to Ruflia. They 



carried home the czar's ambaflador, and with him Mr. Anthony Jenkin- 

 fon, who the next year made very ufeful difcoveries towards Ferfia, for 

 the benefit of the company's commerce. 



It was in this year (according to the Trcfent Jlate of England^ anm 

 1683, part !!!,/> 94.) that glalTes were firfl begun to be made in 

 England. The finer Tort was made in the place called Crutched-Friars 

 in London. Tht fine flint glafs (fays our author), little inferior to that 

 of V'enice, w;is firfl made in the Savoy-houfe in the Strand, London ; 

 but the firfl glais plates for looking-glafles and coach-windows were 

 made about tea years ago (1673) at Lambeth, by the encouragement 

 of the duke of Buckingham. England now excels all the world in 

 every branch of that beautiful manufidure. 



'* It WAS not t!ll about t'u's timt:, if Biflinp wlii'ch lias, I believe, ever fuice been the principal 

 Leflcy [W/?. Scot. p. 24.] was rightly iiiformed, ftation of their innutiierabk millions on the weft 

 that the herrings began to freqient Loch- Broom, tuaft of Scotland. M. 



