luteth the 

 grand Signlor. 



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The ship sa- first two volies of small shot, and then all the great 

 ordinance twise over, there being seven and twentie or 

 eight and twentie pieces in the ship. Which performed, 

 he appointed the Bustangi-Bassa or captaine of the 

 great and spacious garden or parke, to give our men 

 thankes, with request that some other day they would 

 shew him the like sporte when hee would have the 

 Sultana or Empresse a beholder thereof, which few 

 dayes after at the shippes going to the Custome-house 

 they performed. 



The grand Signiors salutation thus ended, the master 

 brought the ship to an anker at Rapamat neere the 

 ambassadors house, where hee likewise saluted him with 

 all his great ordinance once over, and where he landed 

 the Present, the deliverie whereof for a time was staied : 

 the cause of which staie it shall neither be dishonorable 

 for our nation, or that woorthie man the ambassador to 

 shew you. At the departure of Sinan Bassa the chiefe 

 Vizir, and our ambassadors great friend toward the 



The cause of warres of Hungarie there was another Bassa appointed 



staying the ' m j^g p] acej a churlish and harsh natured man, who 

 upon occasion of certaine Genouezes, escaping out of 

 the castles standing toward the Euxine Sea, nowe called 

 the blacke Sea, there imprisoned, apprehended and 

 threatened to execute one of our Englishmen called 

 John Field, for that hee was taken thereabouts, and 

 knowen not many dayes before to have brought a letter 

 to one of them : upon the sollicking of whose libertie 

 there fell a Jarre betweene the Bassa (being now chiefe 

 Vizir) and our ambassador, and in choler he gave her 

 majesties ambassador such words, as without sustaining 

 some great indignitie hee could not put up. Where- 

 upon after the arrivall of the Present, he made an 



An Arz to Arz, that is, a bill of Complaint to the grand Signior 

 against him, the maner in exhibiting whereof is thus 

 performed. 



The plaintifes expect the grand Signiors going abroad 

 from his pallace, either to Santa Sophia or to his 



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the grand 

 Signior, 



