A.D. 



1588. 



The letters of 

 the Prince of 

 Moldavia to 

 the Queene. 

 Letters of the 

 Chanceler of 

 Poland to the 

 Queene. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The returne of Master William Harborne from 

 Constantinople over land to London, 1588. 



Departed from Constantinople with 30. 

 persons of my suit and family the 3. of 

 August. Passing through the Countries 

 of Thracia, now called Romania the 

 great, Valachia & Moldavia, where ariv- 

 ing the 5. of September I was according 

 to the Grand Signior his commandement 



very courteously interteined by Peter his positive prince, 

 a Greeke by profession, with whom was concluded that 

 her Majesties subjects there trafiquing should pay but 

 three upon the hundreth, which as well his owne Subjects 

 as all other nations answere : whose letters to her Majes- 

 tie be extant. Whence I proceeded into Poland, where 

 the high Chanceler sent for mee the 27. of the same 

 moneth. And after most honorable intertainment 

 imparted with me in secret maner the late passed and 

 present occurrents of that kingdome, & also he writ to 

 her Majestic 



Thence 1 hasted unto Elbing, where the 12. of October 

 I was most friendly welcomed by the Senate of that 

 City, whom I finde and judge to be faithfully devoted 

 to her Majesties service, whose letters likewise unto the 

 same were presented me. No lesse at Dantzik the 27. 

 of that moneth I was courteously received by one of the 

 Buroughmasters accompanied with two others of the 

 Senate, & a Civil doctor their Secretarie. After going 

 through the land of Pomer I rested one day at Stetin, 

 where, for that ye duke was absent, nothing ensued. At 

 Rostoke I passed through the Citie without any stay, and 

 at Wismar received like friendly greeting as in the other 

 places : but at Lubeck, for that I came late and departed 

 early in the morning, I was not visited. At Hamburg 

 the 19. of November, and at Stoad the ninth of Decem- 

 ber in like maner I was saluted by a Boroughmaster and 

 the Secretarie, and in all these places they presented mee 



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