AMBASSAGE OF HENRY ROBERTS a.d. 



1587. 

 con orden, de que sean offendidos en ninguna manera ; 

 y esto sera necessariamente : Que es escrita en los medios 

 dias de Rabel, segundo anno de nueve cientos, y noventa 

 y seys. 



Concorda el dia d'esta carta con veynte dias de Marco 

 del anno de mil y quiniento y ochenta y siete, lo 

 qual yo Abdel Rahman el Catan, interprete per su 

 Magestad saque, y romance de verbo ad verbum, 

 como en el se contiene, y en Fee dello firmo de 

 my nombre, fecho ut supra. 



Abdel Rahman el Catan. 



This is a copy well and truely translated of an 

 edict of Muley Hamet king of Fez and 

 Emperour of Marocco, whose tenor is as fol- 

 loweth : to wit, that no Englishmen should 

 be molested or made slaves in any part of his 

 Dominions, obtained by the aforesaid M. 

 Henry Roberts. 



N the Name of the pitifull and the The same in 

 mercifull God, &c. The servant of the En & lish - 

 supreme God, the conqueror in his cause, 

 the successor advanced by God, the 

 Emperour of the Moores, the sonne of 

 the Emperour of the Moores, the Jariffe, 

 the Haceny, whose honour God long 



increase and advance his estate. This our princely com- 

 mandement is delivered into the hands of the English 

 marchants, which remaine in the protection of our stately 

 palaces : to the ende that all men which shall see this 

 present writing, may understand that our princely 

 counsaile wil defend them by the favor of God, from 

 any thing that may impeach or hurt them in what sort 

 soever they shalbe wronged : and that, which way soever 

 they shall travaile, no man shall take them captives in 

 these our kingdomes, ports, and places which belong 

 unto us, which also may protect and defend them by our 



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