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l nt l SS^' The same Year, Stephen Burroughs{ ^ ofYo Was ^ ent out » i n a Vessel, to dis-

hes i n cover the River Ob. He sailed in April,g° l - in Fol. and, in May, came upon the Coast of*y«gefo' S Norway ; Whence, continuing his Voy-zfcvcer 0 tig age, in July , he arrived at Nova Zem -

tt>er Oh. b/a, that is the New Land, where he re-ceived Directions how to shape hisCourse for the River Ob. He spent someTime in the Search of it; But, comingto the Streights of Wayg at z, found noPassage, and, the Summer-Seafon beingalmost spent, returned to Colmogro, inMuscovy , where he wintered, designingto prosecute his Voyage, the next Sum-mer ; But he was countermanded, andemployed to Sail to Wardhouse, in Searchof some Englijh Ships, which were mis-sing ; And so this was all the Event of theExpedition.

/? ac hluy t The Reader, may fee Journals of these

74, Voyages in Hackluyt, with farther Re-2 o°- marks on the first, by Richard Johnson,a Servant of Captain Chancellery. Ishall only observe from the former, that

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c, al being, on the seventeenth of July , ins'ons 0 f' the Latitude of sixty-nine Degrees, andeCon pa[s. ten Minutes, they found the Variationof the Compass to be three Degrees anda half, from the North to the West. Onthe seven and twentieth, being in theLatitude of seventy Degrees, and twoand forty Minutes, it was seven Degreesand a half, from the North to theWest:

And that, on the sixth of August , beingin the Latitude of seventy Degrees, andfive and twenty Minutes, they observedthe Variation to be eight Degrees, from. the North to the West, .

ty^ceiier This Year, likewise, Captain Ri-bs from chard Chanceller returned from his third ed. The Ship, with her whole Cargo,

in the Bay of St. Nicholas , together with jQapt.Chanceller, and sixteen Ruffian Ax.*tendants, on the twentieth of July^ onthe Ship Edward Bonaventure , loadedwith Wax, Train-Oyl, Tallow, Furs.,

Felts, Yarn, and such like, to the Va-lue of twenty Thousand Pound, and ac-companied by the Bona Speranza , theCorjidenza (probably the fame in whichSir Hugh [Villovghby, and his Companywere frozen to Death) and the Philipand Mary, three Ships likewise belong-ing to the Company.

During their Voyage, these Ships The Shipswere separated in a Storm, the latter separated inwere driven on the Coast of Norway , a ^ torm -where the Considenza perished on a Rock,the Bona Speranz;, was then supposedto have wintered there, but it afterwardsappeared she was lost likewise, and thePhilip and Mary arrived in the Thames,on the eighteenth of April, the Yearfollowing, having wintered in Norway.

The Edward-Bonaventure, after havingbeat the Seas for four Months, arrived,on the tenth of November , on the Coastof Scotland, in Pettiflego- Bay, where The Edwardshe parted from her Anchors, and, be- Bonave "*ing driven on the Rocks, split. Captain ^.- 0

Chanceller, being, in this Misfortune,intent upon nothing more than savingthe Life of the Ambassador, took him,with as many of his Attendants, as hecould, into the Boat; Which, (beingprobably overloaded) before they reach-ed the Shoar, overset; And it was withgreat Difficulty the Ambassador, witha very few of the Ruffians, were saved ;the Captain, with the Rest, and seve- And Capt ,

ral of xheEngliJh Mariners, being drown- Chanceller-- - - - - - - drowned*

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V oyage to Archangel, whence he broughtipff over an Ambassador from the Emperour ,or Czar of Muscovy, with rich Presentsto the Queen, and a courteous Invitati-on to her Subjects, to establish a Tradein those Parts. The Ship, in whichChanceller and the Ambassador were,

; Was cast away on the Coast of Scotland,

'htiac an d this worthyCommander,being obfe-

° Ur - quious to save the Ambassadour’s Life,

was unhappily drowned himself. Ofthis Voyage and Accident, I shall givethe Reader a short Account from Hack-r> luyt.

'Iji. z8 . The Person his Czanan Majesty5 ‘ made Choice of, for this Ambassy, toCarry his Letters and Presents to KingPhilip and Queen Mary, was Osep Na-pea, his chief Officer in the Town andCountry of Vologda. He embarked,

the Czar 's Presents, and the Ambassa-dor’s Baggage, were either lost in theSea, or plundered by the Inhabitants.

Upon the first Notice of this Misfor-tune, at London, the Company deputedtwo of their Body, to wait on the Am-bassador, who, after encountring a greatmany Difficulties, and being at a greatCharge, tho’ to no Purpose, to recoversome of his Goods and Effects, arrived ithe tenth of February, 1557. aC ^ er ~ Th e Ambaswick, and the seven and twentieth, with- re-in twelve Miles of London. He was freat State,.there received by fourscore Merchants, in London.*richly apparreli’d, and all having Chainsof Gold about their Necks; their Ser-vants, in great Numbers, being all foone uniform Livery; and well mounted,.

They conducted him to a Merchant’sHouse, within four Miles of London

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