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*5/0. " For those Ships which we now have" here will be soon dispatched from" hence ; Because we have not Goods,“ to load above the Half of them. The" Reason of which is, that we have," this'Winter, (by Your Majesty’s Or-" dors) been kept from trafficking, to“ the Company's great .Loss. But Hop-" ing Your Majesty will hereafter have" Consideration thereof, and that we" may have free Liberty to traffick, in" all Parts of Your Majesty’s Domini-“ ons, according to the Privilege given“ unto us, we pray for Your Majesty’s" Health, with prosperous Success to“ the Pleasure of Gon. From Narve," the fifteenth of July, Anno, 1570.

Tour Majejlv's mojl humbleand Obedient Servants.

Christopher Hodsdon.

William Burrough.

Notwithstanding the Differences4 fy which at this Time reigned between^ys 4^** 'England, and Spain, Philip being aboutSp^ria tg to marry his Niece, Ann of Auflria,n> Daughter of the Emperour Maximilian,

Queen Elizabeth was so polite to send aFleet, under the Command of CharlesHoward, accompanied by several Per'sons of Quality, to convoy her fromZealand to Spain.

^ 57 i. In the Year 1571. some new Diffe-rences arising in Muscovy, the Queen4 A 528 font Mr. Anthony Jenkinfon , who hadk{Ab a ]f y made three Voyages before into RuJJia,as her Ambassadour thither, where hewas very favourably received, (f ) Butdid not, however, obtain all the Ad-vantages which were promised.

^% Teat y The Englijh having, ever since the<0*0. Year I §52. carried on an advantageous^^de for Gold, with the Negroes on3 ‘ Ir adc. " the Coast of Guinea , wherein they had

nQ chlL (f) See a particular Account of this Ambassy,written by Jenkinfon himself, in Harris , and inHnckluyt , P. I- p. 402. & seq. To which latter

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been often disturbed by the Portuguese, 1572*

who laid Claim to that Country, as thefirst Discoverers of it; at last all Diffe-rence between the two Nations wereadjusted, by a Treaty concluded thisYear. The Year following a Treaty, A s eat yor League, was concluded, and signed,on the eleventh of April, at Blois, be-tween France and England.

How long it was reasonable to be- Mezerai.lieve this Peace would last, was easy Thuanus,to be seen, by what happened soon af-terwards, I mean the Massacre of St.Bartholomew's, in which Admiral Cha-tillon, and all the Huguenots , who hadbeen decoyed to Court, under Pretenceof the Nuptials of the King of Navarre ,with the Princess Margaret, the Kingof France's Sister , were inhumanelybutchered, to the Number of ThreeThousand, according to Father Daniel,but, according to others, Ten Thou-sand. The French gloried so much inthis horrid Fact, that there were Me-dals struck in Memory of it, of whichfee a Print in Father Daniel.

Notwithstanding this Treaty, T French'the Queen was in a continual Mistrust Fleet fo-ot France. She suspected- some. Plotwas formed against her, and her Un- Bourdeaux.easiness was en creased by the News, Tind. mmthat a large French Fleet was stationed , on apin 'for some Time, between Rochel andBourdeaux. In the mean Time, thePrince of Orange being entered the Camden.Netherlands, at the Head of an Army Succours sentraised in Germany, Queen Elizabeth t0 u ing 'sent him some Succours, under theCommand of Thomas Morgan and SirHumphry Gilbert. This Year, theQueen, likewise, ordered new Fortifi-cations to be built, at Portsmouth, andher Navy to be encreased.

is added, a brief Account of all the Countriesto which Jenkinfon travelled from 15.46, till hiiieturn from this Ambassy, 1572.

during the Reign of §tyeen Elizabeth,

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