A.D. 



1594- 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



to God, who prosper you in all your proceedings. From 

 Marocco the first of August 1594. 



Yours to command for ever Laurence Madoc. 



Of these two rich cities and kingdomes of Tombuto 

 and Gago Leo Africanus writeth at large in the beginning 

 of his seventh booke of the description of Africa, which 

 worthy worke is to be annexed into the end of this 

 second volume. 



A briefe extract of a patent granted to M. Thomas 

 Gregory of Tanton, and others, for traffique 

 betweene the river of Nonnia and the rivers 

 of Madrabumba and Sierra Leona on the coast 

 of Guinea, in the yeere 1592. 



N May the 34 yeere of our gracious 

 soveraigne Queene Elizabeth, a patent 

 of special! licence was granted to Thomas 

 Gregory of Tanton in the county of 

 Somerset, and to Thomas Pope, and 

 certaine other marchants to traffique into 

 Guinea from the Northermost part of 

 the river of Nonnia to the Southermost parts of the 

 rivers of Madrabumba and Sierra Leona, and to other 

 parts aswell to the Southeast as to the Northwest, for 

 a certaine number of leagues therein specified which 

 amount to an hundred or thereabout. Which patent 

 was granted for the terme of ten yeeres : as appeareth at 

 large in the sayd patent recorded in the Rolles in her 

 Majesties Chancery. 



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