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in sure places, until such time as he might conveniently 

 by his messengers propound and exhibit all and singular 

 the premisses unto your highnes. And forasmuch as 

 the foresaid Master general and our Order do know 

 no just occasion, wherby they have deserved your 

 majesties indignation, but are firmely and most un- 

 doubtedly perswaded, to finde all curtesie, favour, and 

 friendship at your Highnesse, according to your 

 wonted clemencie : the said Master generall therefore 

 fl. 150.] maketh no doubt, that al the above written damages 

 & molestations, being in such sort, against God and 

 justice, offred unto his subjects by yours, be altogether 

 unknown unto your magnificence, & committed against 

 your mind : wherfore presently upon the foresaid arrest 

 of your marchants goods, he dispatched his messengers 

 unto your roial majesty. Wherof one deceased by the 

 way, namely in the territory of Holland : & the 

 other remained sick in those parts for a long season : 

 & so that ambassage took none effect. Wherfore the 

 said master general was desirous to send us now ye 

 second time also unto your Highnes. We do make 

 our humble sute therfore, in the name & behalf of 

 our Master and Order aforesaid, unto your kingly 

 supremacy, that, having God and justice before your 

 eies, and also the dutifull and obsequious demeanor ot 

 the said master, and order towards you, you would 

 vouchsafe to extend your gracious clemency, for the 

 redresse of the premisses : wherby the foresaid losses 

 may be restored and repaied unto our subjects. All 

 which notwithstanding, that it would please you of 

 your wisedome & providence to procure so absolute a 

 remedy, by meanes whereof, in time to come, such 

 dealings and inconveniences may be avoided on both 

 parts, & finally that your marchants may quietly be 

 possessed of their goods arrested in Prussia, and our 

 marchants may be admitted unto the possession of 

 their commodities attached in England, to convert & 

 apply them unto such uses, as to themselves shal seem 



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