KING EDWARD VI.'S LETTER ad. 



1553- 

 and al other, to whom there is any power on the earth, 



to permit unto these our servants free passage by your 

 regions and dominions : for they shall not touch any 

 thing of yours unwilling unto you. Consider you that 

 they also are men. If therefore they shall stand in 

 neede of any thing, we desire you of all humanitie, 

 and for the nobilitie which is in you, to ayde and helpe 

 them with such things as they lacke, receiving againe 

 of them such things as they shall bee able to give you 

 in recompense. Shew your selves so towards them, as 

 you would that we and our subjects should shewe our- 

 selves towards your servants, if at any time they shall 

 passe by our regions. 



Thus doing, we promise you by the God of all things 

 that are contained in heaven, earth, and the Sea, and 

 by the life and tranquillitie of our kingdomes, that we 

 will with like humanitie accept your servants, if at any 

 time they shall come to our kingdomes, where they 

 shall as friendly and gently bee entertained, as if they 

 were borne in our Dominions, that wee may hereby 

 recompence the favour and benignitie which you have 

 shewed to our men. Thus after we have desired you 

 Kings and princes, &c. with all humanity and favour, 

 to entertaine our welbeloved servants, we will pray our 

 Almighty God, to graunt you long life, and peace, which 

 never shall have ende. Written in London, which is the 

 chiefe Citie of our kingdome, in the yeere from the 

 creation of the world, 5515. in the moneth of liar, liar. 1 would 



the fourteenth day of the moneth, and seventh yeere of reade Matr > 



J that is, in the 



our reigne. Sarven lan- 



This letter was written also in Greeke, and divers gwge, mixt of 



other languages. T f rkish . and 



° Aegyptian, 



Februarie, in- 

 terpreted by 

 them the 

 moneth to set 

 ships to the 



[The sea - 

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