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July, but was too ill to carry on for a while. He stayed in Russia for about ten months and was well received and much respected. However apart from small items of gossip he brought little back from the expedition. Not only did the hoped trade fail to materialise, but Lee was refused payment for expenses and he was in financial difficulty for the rest of his life. In 1602 he attended the opening of the
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He was abroad in 1582, possibly in Russia and he was a volunteer against the
Spanish Armada in 1588. His first marriage to the widow of Sir Gerald Croker of Hook Norton led to prolonged legal proceedings over the inheritance of two manors. Through his second marriage he acquired a manor known as Dane
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Muscovy merchants were eager to develop trade. He was constable of Harlech castle by 1600. He was knighted on 1 June 1600 and set sail by mid-June as ambassador to Russia, with ten ships and nearly fifty men. He reached Archangel on 30
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Lee married firstly Lady Mary Croker, widow of Sir Gerald Croker of Hook Norton and daughter of John
Blundell of Finmere and Steeple Barton, Oxfordshire. He married secondly in 1589, Lady Alice Hales, widow of Sir James Hales (d.1589) of Dane John, Canterbury, and daughter of
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Russian books. While there he was robbed of two jewels worth 200 marks. He was ranger of Canterbury park by 1604. In 1604 he was elected MP for
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