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l S5Z- therCommerce with them, ’till he kneVthe Will of his Prince.

The Governour, having dispatched aMessenger to Court, fed Chanceller upwith the Hopes of having a Licencevery speedily to traffick with him, with-out making him sensible of the greatDistance, which he afterwards found tobe near fifteen Hundred Miles. HisPatience being, at Length, tired, he re-solved to undertake the Journey himself,without waiting any longer for An-swer. By the Way, he met with theMessenger, with a gracious Invitation to

him, and his Company* to come toCourt, and an Offer of defraying theirCharges ; Upon which he continued hisJourney to Muscow , the Capital City ofthis great Empire, and the Residenceof it’s Prince. Here I shall leave him,and give a farther Account of his Ne- Chani . e} ,gociation and Return, in the next Reign; the iuloObserving only, in general, that he d'fiovered awas the first Person, who discovered Psjstge tothe Passage to Archangel , in Muscovy* xc ange 'add fettled a Trade between England ,and that Country.

CHAP. XXV.

Nav al Expeditions and FransaBions of the English, with other Occur *rences, during the Reign of Hfueen Mary I,

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I T was the fifth Day after the Deathof King Edward V L the three firstof which it was concealed, beforeany Successor was proclaimed. On thejs?lœdy tenth of July, the Lady Jane Grey was,by Order of the Council, proclaimedff een Tat Qii een of England, &c. at London. The°fld°n ; Princess Mary, the late King’s eldesthndy\t he Sister, assuming the same Title, as wellQt ^ouvicn’ i n R'ght of her Birth, as her Father’s' Will, was proclaimed atNorivich.

The Duke of Northumberland, Jane’sUncle, having ordered Six Men of Warto cruise on the Coast os Suffolk, to pre-vent the Princess Mary's Escape, if shelhould attempt it, or to be ready uponany other extraordinary Occasion, theseShips were driven, by Stress of Weather,into Yarmouth Harbour, at the sameTime that there was a Levy of Forcesii an °f the^ h ere , for that Princess’s service. Theeet > Seamen and Soldiers,being prevailed up-

on, partly by Threats, and partly byPromises, delivered up their Ships toSir Henry Jernegam, one of her Com-manders, which gave a fortunate Turnto her Affairs.

About the same Time, Sir Edward

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Hjry_ r to Hasi/gs, with four Thousand Men,which he had raised, went over to herSide likewise, and proclaimed her atBuckingham. These were soon follow-ed by a great Number of the Nobility,and, on the nineteenth, the Council like-wise forsook their new-made Queen,June, and proclaimed Mary at London ;at u P on which the former willingly laiddown her Dignity, and, on the first of

OBober, Mary was crowned. The tenth J 554>of July, of the Year following, Philip,

Prince of Spain, arrived at Southampton,with a Fleet of one Hundred and sixtySaiL and, on the five and twentieth,

Queen Marry was married to him, at QueenWinchester. The same Day the new-married Couple were proclaimed King lip e/Spain,and Queen of England, France, &c.

And the twelfth of August they madetheir Publick Entry into London.

The same Year, Mr. John Lock un-dertook a Voyage to Guinea, with three ya g e t0 G u i-Ships ; And, trading along that Coast, nea.brought away a considerable Quantity y^, 0 ^*of Gold and Ivory, but proceeded no v 0 i. ; u p oi>farther. Vol. V. p.

We left Captain Richard Chanceller, I4 ^‘ ^the foregoing Year, at Muscow, where, ChanceUer'xafter about twelveDays Stay,he was car- Negotiationstied to the Emperour, to Audience, and tn Muscow °"received in a most gracious and sumptu-ous Manner. He presented King Ed-ward's Letters Missive, and some Pre-sents, in his Name, which were kindlyreceived. When 1 the Audience was atan End, Captain Chanceller, being sup-posed to represent thePerson of theKingof England, had the Honour of the Em-perour’s Table, together with those whowere with him, and was placed oppo-site to His Majesty. After this, he held .several Conferences with the chief Menof the Court, and having settled a Trade And Return/between England and Muscovy, return-ed to Archangel, where his whole Com-pany wintered, and from thence came inSafety to England . Before his Depar^

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