English Translation

3 The Russian trade is also highly profitable. The merchants behind Willoughby's company had informed him of the experiences that had been made so far on voyages of discovery, up to the point where they had politely behaved towards him, to lure the strangers onto the ships and to make them drunk, to learn about them secrets, but not to make any sort of colonial people. The English export from Rufland consisted above all of ropes, wax, tran, the import to Russia from cloth, cotton and luxury goods. Among the goods supplied to Russia by the enclaves are above all numerous arms deliveries, which excite the unwillingness of Russia's enemies and lead to complaints to the English government. 3) Russia's neighbours had so far been anxious to let nothing into the Moscow Empire, which it could strengthen militarily. Queen Elizabeth of England declares in a solemn letter to all the princes under her king's word that all rumors of supplying Russia with war supplies are false, declares herself ready to reward anyone who names a spreader 4) such rumors, On Emperor Ferdinand's complaint about English arms supplies to Russia Elisabeth speaks to him on July 7, 1956l her sympathy from the occasion of the "terrible incidence of the cruel enemies", the Moskovites, to Livonia, and assures that the English did not support this enemy in any way, that they had never introduced any weapons to Russia, and that all their relations with the Russians in some programs were most pleasing: cloth to the 1) Ključevskij. Skazoniio inoetrancev : Moskcvskom gosudarstve, Petrograd 1918, p.274. 2) Kulišer, 117; Putešestvenniki, pp. 34-35 3) Stahlin, S.280; Tolstoy, ps.29.-33. 4) Ljubimenko, p, 130