ad THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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that behalfe : but not being as then by our ambassadours 

 condescended unto, because they durst not proceede 

 unto the same conclusion without our privitie, relation 

 thereof at length being by them made before us and 

 our counsel : we returned unto your honour an answere 

 in writing by our letters under our privie seale, of our 

 full purpose and intention (unto the which letters we 

 doe at this present referre our selves, as if they were 

 here againe expresly written) what we thought good 

 to have done in this behalfe : so that wee also might 

 by your friendly letters be certaynly informed of your 

 will and expresse consent, being likewise conformable 

 unto your foresayd intention. Nowe whereas since that 

 [I. 180.] time we have of late received the certaintie of the 

 matter by your letters written unto us from your castle 

 of Marienburgh, bearing date the 27. of September last 

 past, contayning in effect amongst other matters, that 

 you being mooved with a fervent zeale and speciall 

 affection (as you write) unto the royall crowne of our 

 realme, and having due regard and consideration of 

 our royall majestie, upon the advise of your honourable 

 brethren your counsellers, doe with a thankfull mind 

 accept, and by the tenour of the said letters of yours 

 totally approve the concord of a certaine satisfaction to 

 be performed with the payment of certaine summes of 

 money howsoever due unto your subjects as well of 

 Prussia as of Livonia, expressed in our former letters, 

 within the termes prefixed by our consent and limited 

 in our said letters, and also of other summes which 

 within one whole yeare immediatly following the feast 

 of Easter last past, by sufficient proofes on their part 

 to bee made before our chauncelour at our citie of 

 London, shall be found due unto them : conditionally, 

 that without inconvenience of delay and impediments, 

 the premisses be performed as they ought to be. And 

 that your selfe also will without fayle, upon the termes 

 appoynted for the said payments, procure satisfaction 

 to be made accordingly unto our endamaged subjects 



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