from the Emperor of Russia, in the year of Christ 1556, and in the
third year of the reign of Queen Mary, serving for the third voyage
to Moscow.--Registered by Master John Incent, Protonotarie.


It is here recorded by writing and authentical testimony, partly for
memory of things done and partly for the verity to be known to
posterity in time to come, that whereas the Most High and Mighty
Ivan Vasivilich, Emperor of all Russia, Great Duke of Volidemer,
Muscovy and Novogrode, Emperor of Cassan and of Astrachan, Lord of
Piskie, and Great Duke of Smolenski, Tverski, Yowgoriski, Permiski,
Viatski, Boligarski, and Sibieriski, Emperor and Great Duke of many
others, as Novogrode in the Nether Countries, Charnogoski, Rizanski,
Volodski, Rezewski, Bielski, Rostoski, Yeraslavski, Bialazarski,
Woodarski, Opdorski, Condinski, and many other countries, and lord
over all those parts in the year of our Lord God ensuing, the
account of the Latin Church, 1556, sent by the sea from the Port of
St. Nicholas, in Russia, his Right honourable Ambassador, surnamed
Osepp Napea, his high officer in the town and country of Vologhda,
to the most famous and excellent Princes, Philip and Mary, by the
grace of God King and Queen of England, Spain, France, and Ireland,
Defenders of the Faith, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Burgundy,
Milan, and Brabant, counties of Hasburge, Flanders, and Tyrol, his
ambassador and orator, with certain letters tenderly conceived,
together with certain presents and gifts mentioned in the foot of
this memorial, as a manifest argument and token of a mutual amity
and friendship to be made and continued between their Majesties and
subjects respectively, for the commodity and benefit of both the
realms and people; which orator was the 20th day of July embarked
and shipped in and upon a good English ship named the Edward