The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04Hakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
ELIZABETHA &c. Literas vestrŠ, Maiestatis superiori anno 1567, decimo die
mensis Aprilis datas, vestri mercatores Stephanus Twerdico, et Pheodata
Pogorella, qui has nostras perferunt, nobis tradidere. Quos vestros
mercatores in omni suo apud nos et nostros obeundo negotio, ita tractari,
et libenti voluntate, et expresso nostro mandato curauimus, vt non solum
vestrŠ Maiestatis pro illis postulationi, sed eorundem etiam hominum
expectationi plenŔ satisfactum esse confidamus. Id quod e˛ fecimus
studiosi¨s, quod plane perspectum, probÚque cognitum habeamus, nostros
omnes, qui bona cum gratia nostra, nostrar˙mque literarum commendatione,
istuc, sub vestro imperio negotiaturi veniunt, pari, cum vestrŠ Maiestatis
fauore, tum vestrorum subditorum humanitate, vbiuis acceptos esse. QuŠ
nostra vtrobique, et muttuŠ inter nos amicitiŠ et gratŠ inter nostros
beneuolentiŠ officia, vt crebra et perpetua existant, nos admodum
postulamus. Quem animi nostri sensnm fusius hi vestri, et opportunius suo
sermone coram declarabunt: Quibus non dubitamus, quin vestra Maiestas
amplam fidem sit tributura. Deus &c. Grenouici nono die Maij 1567.
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The ambassage of the right worshipfulll Master Thomas Randolfe, Esquire, to
the Emperour of Russia, in the yeere 1568, briefly written by himselfe.
[Sidenote: In this voyage went Thomas Bannister, and Geofrey Ducket, for
their voyage into Persia.] The 22 day of Iune, in the yere of our Lord
1568, I went aboord the Harry, lying in the road at Harwich with my
company, being to the number of fortie persons or thereabout: of which the
one halfe were gentlemen, desirous to see the world.
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