Bonaventura, belonging to the Governor, Consuls, and company of
English merchants, Richard Chanceler being grand pilot, and John
Buckland master of the said ship, in which was laden, at the
adventure of the aforesaid ambassador and merchants, at several
accounts, goods and merchandise, viz., in wax, train oil, tallow,
furs, felts, yarn, and such-like, to the sum of 20,000 li. sterling,
together with sixteen Russians, attendant upon the person of the
said ambassador--over and above ten other Russians shipped within
the said Bay of St. Nicholas in one other good ship, to the said
company also belonging, called the Bona Speranza, with goods of the
said orators and merchants to the value of 6,000 li. sterling as by
the invoices and letters of lading of the said several ships
(whereunto relation is to be had) particularly appeareth; which good
ships, coming in good order into the seas, and traversing the same
in their journey towards the coast of England, were by contrary
winds and extreme tempest of weather severed the one from the other;
that is to say, the said Bona Speranza, with two other English
ships, also appertaining to the said company, the one surnamed the
Philip and Mary, the other the Confidentia, were driven on the coast
of Norway into Drenton Water, where the said Confidentia was seen to
perish on a rock, and the other, videlicet the Bona Speranza, with
her whole company, being to the number of four-and-twenty persons,
seemed to winter there, whereof no certainty at this present day is
known. The third, videlicet the Philip and Mary, arrived in the
Thames nigh London the eighteenth day of April, in the year of our
Lord 1557. The Edward Bonaventura, traversing the seas for months,
finally, the tenth day of November, of the aforesaid year of our
Lord 1556, arrived within the Scottish coast in a bay named
Pettislego, where, by outrageous tempests and extreme storms, the
said ship, being beaten from her ground tackles, was driven upon the