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i ggy. where he remain’d that Night, and, inthe mean Time, a proper riding Habitwas prepared for him. The next Day,the Company of Merchants-Adventurers,in a Body, to the Number of one Hun-dred and forty Persons, with a greaterNumber of Servants, all in the lame u-niform Livery, conducted him towardsLondon. By the Way, he was met bythe Lord Viscount Mount ague, who wait-ed on him, with a Compliment from theQueen, being attended by Knights, E-squires, Gentlemen and others, to theNumber of three Hundred Hoisse. NeartheCity, four Merchants, richly appar-rel’d, presented him a stately Gelding,finely caparisoned, which he immediate-ffls Publics ly mounted. At Smithfield Bars, theEntry thto Lord Mayor, and Court of Aldermen,the City: j n their Robes, waited to receive him.

From whence he rode thro’ the City,between the Lord Viscount Montague,on the one Side, and the Lord-Mayor,on the other , preceeded by the Mer-chants, and followed by their Servants,to the Lodgings, which the Companyhad furnished, in a splendid Manner,in Fanchurch Street. At his Entranceinto hisApartment, were presented him,in the Name of the Queen, for his Ap-parel, a Piece of Cloth of Tissue, ano-ther of Cloth of Gold, another Piece ofCloth of Gold raised withCrimson Velvet,aPiece of Crimson and another ofPurpleVelvet, and two Pieces of Damask, oneCrimson and the other Purple j Allwhich he received with an apparentSatisfaction and grateful Acknowledg-ment.

King Philip returning soon after fromence. Flanders , on the five and twentieth ofMarch , the Ambassador had his Pub-lick Audience of the King and Queen,who received him in great Splendour, atWestminster, to and from which he wentby Water.

The three and twentieth of April,being the Festival of St. George, the So-lemnity of the Noble Order of the Gar-ter was celebrated, with great Magnifi-cence, to which the Rustian Ambassa-dour was invited; And his Negociations,with the Court of England, having been,before that Time, concluded, beforethe Ceremony, with which he expresseda more than ordinary Satisfaction, hehad his Audience of Leave of Their„ . .. Majesties. The nine and twentieth he

entertaine/i was nobly entertained by the S°ciety ofMerchants-Adventurers , at Drapers

Hall, where a Cup of Wine being

drunk to him, in the Name of the whole i stSociety, they entreated him, in a hand-some Manner, that he would give themLeave to defray all Charges, both forhis Perlbn and his Attendants, -from ^ his £the Time of his coming afhoar in Scot-J”^land, to his Departure from Grave fend. Merch^ 1 "On the third ox May, he having beforereceived the Queen’s Letters and Pre-sents, he embarked on Board the Prim-rose, one of the four Ships appointed toattend him to Muscovy.

W e come now to the fourth and last . - ^ ftVoyage to Rujstia, in this Queen’s Reign, y Jg e towhich was made, as I have already ob- Archang e 'served, with four Ships. These Shipswere commanded in chief by CaptainAnthony Jenkinson, who went in thePrimrose, with the Ambassadour, asAdmiral, the St. John Evangelist wentas Vice-Admiral, and the Ann and Tri-nity as Attendants. In Hackluyt, we HackMLhave Copies of the Instructions, given P- I- A ^by the Company, for the Officers of this ^ fa'Fleet, and their Letter to their Factorsin Rustia.

They departed from Gravesend, onthe twelfth of May ; But it was the se-venteenth of June before they got clearof England. The twelfth of July, theyarrived at the Road of S.Nicholas ,whereanchoring the thirteenth,theAmbassadorwent on Shoar. The Account of Jen-kinses Journy to Moscow, and his Re-ception there, differing very little fromwhat the Reader has already seen inChancellery Account, it would be super-fluous here; I shall, therefore, leavehim at that Court, and return to Eng-land.

King Philip, was returned to Eng- A.land, as we have seen above, and being ^ua^'now King of Spain, by the Resignation Godwinof his Father, had declared War againstFrance. Queen Mary, in Complaisanceto her Husband, declared War againstthat Kingdom, likewise, and sent theEarl of Pembroke, with seven (some sayeight) Thousand Men, into Picardy, to ^, eastist the King of Spain's Troops, who a 0 tWwere then besieging St. Quintin. The Spa« liarKing, followed them, himself, on theseventh of July, and obtained a very »/ssignal Victory over the French, whocame to the Relief of the Place, to Vwhich the English, in a great Measure, ^re-contributed ; as they did likewise to theReduction of the Town, being the fore-most in the Attack, when it was takenby Storm, a few Days afterwards. TheseAdvantages cost the English, however,

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