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TO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF RUSSIA AND SIBERIA. 23
fupper they have declared the expofition of the Gofpel that day : but how they wreft and
twine the Scripture, and that together by report it is wonderful. As for whoredom and
drunkennefs there be none fuch living ; and for extortion they be the moft abominable
under the fun. Now judge of their holinefs. ‘They have twice as much land as the
duke himfelf hath : but yet he is reafonable even with them, as thus: when they take
bribes of any of the poor and fimple, he hath it by an order; when the abbot of any
of their houfes dieth, then the duke hath all his goods, moveable and immoveabie :
fo that the fucceflor buyeth all at the duke’s hands: and by this mean they be the
beft fermers the duke hath. ‘Thus with their religion I make an end, trulting here-
after to know it better.
To the right worfhipful and my fingular good
uncle, Mafter Chriftopher Vrothingham,
give thefe.
Sir, read and correct;
For great is the defect.
The teftimony of M. Richard Eden, in his Decades, concerning the book following :
And whereas, (faith he), I have before made mention how Mofcovy was in our time
difcovered by Richard Chancelor, in his voyage toward Cathay, by the direction and
information of M. Sebaftian Cabota, who long before had this fecret in his mind; I
fhall not need here to defcribe that voyage, forafmuch as the fame is largely and faith-
fully written in the Latin tongue by that learned young man Clement Adams, fchool-
ma(ter to the queen’s henfhmen, as he received it at the mouth of the faid Richard
Chancelor.
The new navigation and difcovery of the kingdom of Mofcovia, by the north-eaft, in the
year 1553: enterprifed by Sir Hugh Willoughbie, knight, and performed by Richard
Chancelor, pilot major of the voyage: written in Latin by Clement Adams.
AT what time our merchants perceived the commodities and wares of England to be’
in {mall requeft with the countries and people about us, and near unto us, and that
thofe merchandifes which ftrangers in the tine and memory of our ancelftors did ear-
neftly feck and defire, were now neglected, and the price thereof abated, although by
us carried to their own ports, and all foreign merchandifes in great account, and their
prices wonderfully raifed: certain grave ciuzens of London, and men of great wildom,
and careful for the good of their country, began to think with themfelves, how this
mifchief might be remedied. Neither was a remedy (as it then appeared) wanting to
their defires, for the avoiding of fo great an inconvenience: for feeing that the wealth
of the Spaniards and Portingales, by the difcovery and fearch of new trades and coun-
tries, was marvelloufly increafed, fuppofing the fame to be a courfe and mean for
them alfo to obtain the like, they thereupon refolved upon a new and {trange naviga-
tion. And whereas at the fame time one Sebaftian Cabota, a man in thole days very
renowned, happened to be in London, they began firft of all to deal and confult dili-
gently with him, and after much fpeech and conference together, it was at laft con-
cluded that three fhips fhould be prepared and furnifhed out, for the fearch and dif-
covery of the northern part of the world, to open a way and paflage to our men. for
travel to new and unknown kingdoms,
: ° And:
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