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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 welt 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 Cliancelor, 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 Greekeand divers languages.” “These foresaide 
ships, being fully furnished with their pinnisses and boates, 
uel-appointed with all manner of artillerie, departed from 
Ratclifle and haled unto Deptford the 10th day of May, 
1553.” 
Then follows the diary of Sir Hugh Willoughby, 
beginning with May 11th, 1553, with their departure from 
Deptford. 
A few extracts from it may he permitted. 
“ The 11th day, about two of the cloeke, we departed 
from Deptford, passing by Greenwich, saluting the King’s 
majesty then being there ; shooting off our ordnances, and 
so haled to Blackwall, and there remained until the 17th 
