nine-and-twentieth day of April the said merchants, assembling
themselves together in the house of the Drapers' Hall of London,
exhibited and gave unto the said ambassador a notable supper
garnished with music, interludes, and banquets, in the which a cup
of wine being drunk to him in the name and lieu of the whole
company, it was signified to him that the whole company, with most
liberal and friendly hearts, did frankly give to him and his all
manner of costs and charges and victuals, riding from Scotland to
London during his abode there, and until setting of sail aboard the
ship, requesting him to accept the same in good part, as a testimony
and witness of their good hearts, zeal, and tenderness towards him
and his country.

It is to be considered that of the Bona Speranza no word nor
knowledge was had at this present day, nor yet of the arrival of the
ships or goods from Scotland.

The third of May the ambassador departed from London to Gravesend,
accompanied with divers aldermen and merchants, who in good guard
set him aboard the noble ship the Primrose, admiral to the fleet,
where leave was taken on both sides and parts, after many
embracements and divers farewells, not without expressing of tears.

Memorandum, that the first day of May the councillors, videlicet the
Bishop of Ely and Sir William Peter, on behalf of the King's and
Queen's Majesties, repairing to the Lord Ambassador, did not only
deliver unto him their Highnesses' letters of recommendation under
the Great Seal of England to the Emperor, very tenderly and friendly
written, but also, on their Majesties' behalf, gave and delivered
certain notable presents to the Emperor's person, and also gifts for