3. Item, four living sables with chains and collars. 4. Item, thirty Lausannes large and beautiful. 5. Item, six large and great skins, very rich and rare, worn only by the Emperor for worthiness. 6. Item, a large and fair white Jerfawcon, for the wild swan, crane, goose, and other great fowls. Together with a drum of silver, the hoops gilt, used for a lure to call the said hawk. * * * * * _Gifts sent to the Emperor of Russia by the King and Queen’s Majesties of England_. 1. First, two rich pieces of cloth of tissue. 2. Item, one fine piece of scarlet. 3. Item, one fine violet in grain. 4. Item, one fine azure cloth. 5. Item, a notable pair of brigandines, with a murrian covered with crimson velvet and gilt nails. 6. Item, a male and female lions. * * * * * _Gifts given to the Ambassador at his Departure_, _over and above such as were delivered unto him at his first Arrival_. 1. First, a chain of gold of one hundred pound. 2. Item, a large basin and ewer, silver and gilt. 3. Item, a pair of pottle pots gilt. 4. Item, a pair of flagons gilt. THE VOYAGE. _Wherein_ OSEPP NAPEA, _the Muscovite Ambassador_, _returned home into his Country_, _with his Entertainment at his Arrival at Colmogro_; _and a large description of the Manners of the Country_. THE 12th of May, in the year of our Lord 1567, there departed from Gravesend four good ships, well appointed for merchants, which were presently bound into the Bay of St. Nicholas in Russia, with which ships were transported or carried home one Osepp Gregoriwich Napea, who was sent messenger from the Emperor and Great Duke of Muscovy. The four ships were these whose names follow, viz. The _Primrose_, Admiral. The _John Evangelist_, Vice-Admiral. The _Anne_, and the _Trinity_, Attendants. The 13th of July, the aforesaid four ships came to an anchor in the Bay of St. Nicholas, before an Abbey called the Abbey of St. Nicholas, whereas the said messenger, Osepp Gregoriwich Napea, went ashore, and as many Englishmen as came to serve the Emperor, remained with him at the Abbey, for the space of six days, until he had gotten all his things ashore, and laden the same in barques to go up the river Dwina, unto Vologhda, which is by water 1,000 verstes, and every verste is about three-quarters of an English mile.