rocks on shore, where she broke and split in pieces; in such sort as
the grand pilot, using all carefulness for the safety of the body of
the ambassador and his train, taking the boat of the said ship,
trusting to attain the shore and so to save and preserve the body,
and seven of the company or attendants of the said ambassador, the
same boat by rigorous waves of the seas was by dark night
overwhelmed and drowned, wherein perished, not only the body of the
said grand pilot, with seven Russians, but also divers of the
mariners of the said ship; the noble personage of the said
ambassador, with a few others (by God's preservation and special
favour), only with much difficulty saved. In which shipwreck, not
only the said ship was broken, but also the whole mass and body of
the goods laden in her was, by the rude and ravenous people of the
country thereunto adjoining, rifled, spoiled, and carried away, to
the manifest loss and utter destruction of all the lading of the
said ship, and together with the ship, apparel, ordnance, and
furniture, belonging to the company, in value of 1,000 pounds of
all, which was not restored towards the costs and charges to the sum
of 500 li. sterling.

As soon as by letters addressed to the said company, and in London
delivered the 6th of December last past, it was to them certainly
known of the loss of their pilot, men, goods, and ship, the same
merchants with all celerity and expedition obtained, not only the
Queen's Majesty's most gracious and favourable letters to the Lady
Dowager and Lords of the Council of Scotland for the gentle
comfortment and entertainment of the said ambassador, his train and
company, with preservation and restitution of his goods, as in such
miserable cases to Christian pity, princely honour, and mere justice
appertaineth, but also addressed two gentlemen of good learning,