QUEEN ELIZABETHS LETTERS 



dayes after in the Expedition of London, and two more 

 in a Flemish flie-boat, and one in the Mary Edward also 

 of London, other two of our number died in the countrey 

 of the bloodie-fluxe : the one at our first imprisonment 

 at Marocco, whose name was George Hancock, and the 

 other at S. Cruz, whose name was Robert Swancon, whose 

 death was hastened by eating of rootes and other un- 

 naturall things to slake their raging hunger in our 

 travaile, and by our hard and cold lodging in the open 

 fields without tents. Thus of fiftie persons through the 

 rashnesse of an unskilfull Master ten onely survived of 

 us, and after a thousand miseries returned home poore, 

 sicke, and feeble into our countrey. 



Richard Johnson. Thomas Henmore. 



William Williams Carpenter. John Silvester. 



John Durham. Thomas Whiting. 



Abraham Rouse. William Church. 



John Matthewes. John Fox. 



AD. 



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The letters of the Queenes most excellent Majestic 

 sent by one Laurence Aldersey unto the Em- 

 perour of Aethiopia, 1597. 



Invictissimo potentissimoque Abassenorum regi, 

 magnoque utriusque Aethiopia? imperatori &c. 



Lizabetha dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & 

 Hiberniae regina, fidei defensor &c. summo 

 ac potentissimo iEthiopiae imperatori 

 salutem. Quod ab omnibus qui ubivis 

 terrarum ac gentium sunt regibus princi- 

 pibusque praestari par & aequum est, ut 

 quanquam maximo locorum intervallo 



dissiti, & moribus ac legibus discrepantes, communem 

 tamen generis humani societatem tueri & conservare, 

 mutuaque ut occasio ferret, charitatis & benevolentiae 

 ofiicia velint exercere : in eo nos de vestra fide atque 

 humanitate spem certissimam concipientes, huic subito 

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