ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1407. 



the arrival of our ambassadors untill the first day of the 

 moneth of November last expired, that there might bee 

 by way of friendly conference a remedie provided in 

 regard of certaine injuries pretended to be offered, by 

 both our subjects one against another, for the publique 

 commoditie of both parts, we were determined to have 

 sent unto Dordract, at the foresaid daye, our welbeloved 

 and faithfull knight William Sturmy, and our welbeloved 

 clerke John Kington, upon our ambassage-affayres : hav- 

 ing as yet in our desires, for a peaceable ending of the 

 matter, (which, our foresayd ambassadors, by reason of 

 the shortnes of time, or the finding out of some other 

 remedie and happy conclusion of all and singular the 

 foresaid attempts concerning the principall busines, could 

 by no meanes at that instant attaine unto) that upon some 

 other more convenient day (to the end your ambassadors 

 might not returne home altogether frustrate of their 

 expectation) there might be, after the wonted friendly 

 maner, a conference & agreement with your foresayd 

 ambassadors, even as by other letters of ours directed 

 unto your sayd ambassadors the second day of the 

 moneth of November aforesayd wee have delivered our 

 mind unto them. But it fortuned not long before the 

 departure of your ambassadors into their owne countrey, 

 that no sufficient shipping could be found wherein our 

 sayd ambassadors might have secure and safe passage 

 unto Dordract, or Middleburgh, neither was it thought 

 that they should get any passage at all, till the ships at 

 Middleborough were returned into our kingdome, by 

 the force whereof they might be the more strongly 

 wafted over. And so by reason of the departure of 

 your ambassadours, all matters remaine in suspense till 

 such time as the sayd ambassadors shall againe meete 

 with ours to adde perfection unto the busines as yet 

 imperfect. Wherefore (our friend unfainedly beloved) 

 desiring from the bottome of our heart that the integritie 

 of love, which hath from auncient times taken place 

 betweene our & your subjects, may in time to come 



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