Transcribed from the 1893 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY * * * * * THE DISCOVERY OF MUSCOVY. FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF RICHARD HAKLUYT. WITH _The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan from King_ _Alfred’s Orosius_. [Picture: Decorative graphic] CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED: _LONDON_, _PARIS & MELBOURNE_. 1893. INTRODUCTION. THE first relations between England and Russia were established in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, in the manner here set forth, by the expedition undertaken by Sir Hugh Willoughby and completed by Richard Chanceler or Chancellor, captain of the _Edward Bonaventure_. Chanceler went on after Willoughby and the crew of his ship, _The Admiral_, with the crew of another vessel in the expedition, had been parted from Chanceler in a storm in the North Sea, and Willoughby’s men were all frozen to death. A few men belonging to the other ship were believed to have found their way back to England. The story of Chanceler’s voyage and the following endeavours to open Muscovy to English trade is here given, as it was told in Hakluyt’s collection of “The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries made by the English Nation,” the folio published in 1589.