A.D. 

 1527. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



He meaneth 

 the Emperor 



a marvellous great number of people, hee could not be 

 overthrowen. Wherefore he most humbly besought the 

 king as S. Georges knight, and defender of the faith, 

 to assist the king his master in that godly warre and 

 vertuous purpose. 



To this oration the king by the mouth of Sir Thomas 

 Moore answered ; that much hee lamented the losse that 

 happened in Hungarie, and if it were not for the warres 

 which were betweene the two great princes, he thought 

 that the Turke would not have enterprised that acte : 

 kinz ^ ^^^^ wherefore he with all his studie would take paine, first, 

 to set an unitie and peace throughout all Christendome, 

 and after that, both with money and men he would be 

 readie to helpe toward that glorious warre, as much as 

 any other prince in Christendome. After this done, the 

 ambassadours were well cherished, and divers times 

 resorted to the court, and had great cheere and good 

 rewards, and so the third day of May next following, 

 they tooke their leave & departed homeward. 



The antiquitie of the trade w^ith English ships 

 into the Levant. 



N the yeeres of our Lord, 151 1. 15 12. 

 &c. till the yeere 1534. divers tall ships 

 of London, namely. The Christopher 

 Campion, wherein was Factor one Roger 

 Whitcome; the Mary George, wherein 

 was Factor William Gresham ; the great 

 Mary Grace, the Owner whereof, was 

 William Gunson, and the master one John Hely; the 

 Trinitie Fitz-williams, whereof was master Laurence 

 Arkey ; the Mathew of London, whereof was master 

 William Capling, with certaine other ships of South- 

 ampton and Bristow, had an ordinarie and usuall trade 

 to Sicilia, Candie, Chio, and somewhiles to Cyprus, as 

 also to Tripolis and Barutti in Syria. The commodities 

 which they caried thither were fine Kersies of divers 

 colours, course Kersies, white Westerne dozens. Cottons, 



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