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A very briefe remembrance of a voyage made by M. Anthony Ienkinson, from London to Moscovia, sent from the Queenes Maiestie to the Emperour, in the yeere 1566

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The fourth day of May in the yeere aforesaid, I imbarked myselfe at Grauesend in the good ship called the Harry of London, and hauing had a prosperous voyage arriued at the bay of S. Nicholas in Russia the tenth day of July following, and immediately I sent in post to the Emperour to aduertise of my comming, and trauelling then thorow the country. I with my company came to the Mosco, where the Emperor kept his court, the 23. of August, and forthwith gaue the Secretarie to vnderstand of my arriuall, who aduertised the Emperors Maiesty of it; and the first day of September, being a solemne feast among the Russes, I came before the Emperours Maiesty, sitting in his seat of honour, and hauing kissed his hand, & done the Queenes Maiesties commendations, & deliuered her Graces letters and present, he bade me to dinner, which I accepted, and had much honor done vnto me both then & all the time of my abode in Russia.

***The fourth day of May in the yeere aforesaid, I imbarked myselfe at Grauesend in the good ship called the Harry of London, and hauing had a prosperous voyage arriued at the bay of S. Nicholas in Russia the tenth day of July following, and immediately I sent in post to the Emperour to aduertise of my comming, and trauelling then thorow the country.

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Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia
By Anthony Jenkinson and Other Englishmen
, pp. 189
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1886

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