In 1553 the Edward Bonaventure set sail from England with two other ships to search for a Northeast Passage to Asia. Eventually the ship made it to the White Sea and the captain of the ship, Richard Chancellor, reached Moscow where he met Tsar Ivan IV, ‘the Terrible’, at the Kremlin. In 1554 the ship returned to England but was ‘robbed by Flemings’, according to Richard Hakluyt. The discovery of a case file in the archives of the Great Council of Malines, the supreme court of the Netherlands in the sixteenth century, concerning the robbing of the Edward Bonaventure on its return voyage offers a new perspective on the spectacular first English expedition which resulted in the discovery of the North Cape and Anglo-Russian trade connections and diplomatic relations. Besides offering new knowledge on England’s pioneering voyage of 1553, this article explores possibilities and limitations of case files for historical research and offers a revealing example of political pressure on legal decision-making and shows that legal institutions were not necessarily the puppets of their rulers.

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重新考虑英国寻找通往亚洲的东北航道：“佛兰德”渔民如何在 1554 年的回程中将爱德华·博纳文图尔置于危险之中

1553 年，爱德华·博纳文图尔号与另外两艘船从英格兰启航，寻找通往亚洲的东北航道。最终，这艘船驶向了白海，船长理查德·钱斯勒 (Richard Chancellor) 抵达莫斯科，在那里他会见了克里姆林宫的“雷帝”沙皇伊凡四世。1554 年，这艘船返回英国，但“被弗莱明斯抢劫”，根据理查德·哈克卢特的说法。在 16 世纪荷兰最高法院马林大议会档案中发现的关于爱德华·博纳文图尔号在返航途中被盗的案件档案，为了解这一壮观的第一次英国远征提供了一个新的视角。发现了北开普省和英俄贸易联系和外交关系。除了提供有关 1553 年英格兰开创性航行的新知识外，