[86] Hakluyt, vol. i. p. 246.

[87] Chancellor was drowned, according to Hakluyt, Nov. 7, 1556 (vol. ii. p. 286).

[88] Hakluyt, vol. i. pp. 286, 287.

[89] [Appendix No. 2.]

[90] Hakluyt, vol. i. p. 297.

[91] Barrow’s ‘Chronological History,’ &c., p. 36.

[92] Campbell’s ‘Lives of the Admirals.’

[93] Hakluyt, vol. i. p. 307.

[94] Among the first acts of Elizabeth, when she ascended the throne, was to address a letter on the subject of commercial intercourse “To the right mightie and right victorious Prince, the Great Sophie, Emperor of the Persians, Medes, &c., &c., and the people on this side and beyond the river of Tigris.”

[95] Treaties of Commerce, by Wheeler, ed. of 1601, p. 97.