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A
GENERAL COLLECTION
OF
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.
THE VOYAGES OF SIR HUGH WILLOUGHBY, RICHARD CHANCELOR AND
OTHERS, TO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF RUSSIA AND SIBERIA.
(From Haxtuyt’s Collection, Vol. I. p. 226.)
Turse interefting Voyages are introduced with a genealogy of the dukes of Mos-
covy, which being extraneous to the fubject, and often erroneous, fhall be here omitted.
But the inftructions of Sebaftian Cabot deferve prefervation, on account of their curi-
ofity, and the celebrity of the author, not to mention that the firft Englifh voyage of
difcovery deferves to be detailed with all its circumftances; and ina plan of this extent
the Gothic building may fometimes form an agreeable variety amid{t modern edifices.
Ordinances, inferudtions, and advertifements of and for the direction of the intended voyage
for Cathay, compiled, made, and delivered by the right wor/hipful M. Sebaftian Cabota,
efquire, governor of the my/ftery and company of the merchants adventurers for the difco-
very of regions, dominions, iflands, and places unknown, the 9th day of May, in the year
of our Lord God 1553, and in the 7th year of the reign of our moft dread fovereign lord,
Edward the Sixth, by the grace of God, king of England, France, and Ireland, defender
of the faith, and of the church of England and Ireland, in earth fupreme head.
Firft, the captain-general, with the pilot-major, the mafters, merchants, and other
officers, to be so knit and accorded in unity, love, conformity, and obedience in every
degree on all sides, that no diffention, variance, or contention may rife or fpring betwixt
them and the mariners of this company, to the damage or hindrance of the voyage ; for
that diffention (by many experiences) hath overthrown many notable intended, and
likely enterprifes and exploits.
2. Item, for as much as every perfon hath given an oath to be true, faithful, and
loyal fubjects, and liegemen to the king’s moft excellent majefty, his heirs and fuc-
ceflors, and for the obfervation of all laws and ftatutes, made for the prefervation of his
moft excellent majefty, and his crown imperial of his realms of England and era
VOL. I: B an
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