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authoritie from any molestation whatsoever : and that 

 no man shall hinder them by laying violent hand upon 

 them, and shall not give occasion that they may be 

 grieved in any sort by the favour and assistance of God. 

 And we charge and command our officers of our havens 

 and fortresses, and all such as beare any authoritie in 

 these our dominions, and likewise all the common people, 

 that in no wise they do molest them, in such sort that 

 they be no way offended or wronged. And this our 

 commandement shall remaine inviolable, being registred 

 in the middest of the moneth of Rabel in the yeere 

 996. 



The date of this letter agreeth with the 20. of March 

 1587. which I Abdel Rahman el Catan, interpretour 

 for his Majestie, have translated and turned out of 

 the Arabian into Spanish word for word as is con- 

 tained therein : and in witnesse thereof have sub- 

 scribed my name as aforesaid. 



Abdel Rahman el Catan. 



A letter of 

 Mully Hamet 

 to the Erie of 

 Leicester. 



En nombre de Dios el piadoso piadador. 



Oracion de Dios sobre nuestro Sen nor y Propheta 

 Mahumet, y los allegados a el. 



L siervo de Dios, y muy guerrero, y 

 ensalsado por la gracia de Dios, Myra 

 Momanyn, hijo de Myra Momanyn, 

 nieto de Myra Momanyn, el Jarif, el 

 Hazeny, que Dios sustenga sus reynos, 

 y enhalse sus mandados, para el Sennor 

 muy affamado y muy illustre, muy esti- 

 mado, el Conde de Leycester, despues de dar las loores 

 [II. ii. 119.] devidas a Dios, y las oraciones, y saludes devidas a le 

 Propheta Mahumet. Servira esta por os hazer saber que 

 llego a qui a nuestra real Corte vuestra carta, y enten- 

 dimos lo que en ella se contiene. Y vuestro Ambaxador, 

 que aqui esta en nuestra corte me dio a entender la 

 causa de la tardanca de los rehenes hasta agora : el qual 



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