A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1553- 



by them, or the sayd Ministers and Officers whatsoever 

 they be, the sayd Anthony Jenkinson, or his factor, or 

 his servaunts, or deputies, or his merchandise, to pay 

 any kind of consullage, or other right whatsoever, or to 

 intermeddle or hinder his affaires, and not to molest nor 

 trouble him any maner of way, because our will and 

 pleasure is, that he shall not pay in all our Countreys, 

 any other then our ordinarie custome. And in case any 

 man hinder and impeach him, above, and besides these 

 our present letters, wee charge you most expresly to 

 defend and assist him agaynst the sayd Consuls, and if 

 they will not obey our present commandement, that you 

 advertise us thereof, that we may take such order for the 

 same, that others may take example thereby. Moreover, 

 we commaund all our Captaines of our Gallies, and their 

 Lieutenants, be they Foistes or other Vessels, that when 

 they shall finde the sayd Jenkinson, or his factor, his 

 ship or ships, with his servaunts and merchandise, that 

 they hurt him not neither in body nor goods, but that 

 rather they assist and defend him agaynst all such as 

 seeke to doe him wrong, and that they ayde and helpe 

 him with vitailes, according to his want, and that whoso- 

 ever shall see these presents, obey the same, as they will 

 avoyd the penaltie in doing the contrary. Made in 

 Aleppo of Syria, the yeere 961. of our holy prophet 

 Mahomet, and in the yeere of Jesus, 1553. signed with 

 the scepter and signet of the grand Signior, with his owne 

 proper hand. 



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