ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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brotherly kindnesse, and an eternall league by them to 

 be observed : it will not (we hope) seeme unpleasant unto 

 your highnesse, when you shall have intelligence of our 

 loving letters sent so huge a distance over sea and land, 

 even from the farthest realme of England unto you 

 in Aethiopia. On the other side our selves shall take 

 great solace and delight, when as by the relation of our 

 owne subjects, the renowme of your name shall be 

 brought unto us from the fountains of Nilus, and from 

 those regions which are situate under the Southerne 

 Tropike. May it please you therefore of your princely 

 clemencie to vouchsafe so much favour on this our 

 subject, that he may, under the safeguard and protection 

 of your name, enter into your highnesse dominions, and 

 there remaine safe and free from danger. Which favour 

 and courtesie wee doe likewise most earnestly request 

 at the hands of other princes, through whose Seigniories 

 our said subject is to passe ; and we shall esteeme it 

 as done unto our selfe and for our honours sake. 



Neither do we require any greater favour in this 



behalfe, then we are upon the like occasion most ready 



to graunt unto the subjects of all princes and the 



people of all Nations, traveiling into our dominions. 



Given at London the fift day of November, 



in the thirtie and ninth yeere of 



our reigne : and in the 



yeare of our Lorde 



1597- 



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