QUEEN ELIZABETH'S REPLY ad 



1579. 

 But this profite will be increased to the subjects of your 

 highnesse by this free accesse of a few of our subjects 

 to your dominions, as also the losse and burden wilbe 

 eased, by the permission of generall accesse to all our 

 people. And furthermore we will graunt as equall and 

 as free a libertie to the subjects of your highnesse with us 

 for the use of traffique, when they wil, and as often as 

 they wil, to come, and go to and from us and our 

 kingdomes. Which libertie wee promise to your high- 

 nesse shalbe as ample, and as large as any was ever given 

 or granted to your subjects by the aforesaide princes your 

 confederats, as namely the king of the Romanes, of 

 France, of Poland, and the common wealth of Venice. 

 In which matter, if your most invincible Imperiall high- 

 nesse shall vouchsafe to incline to our reasonable request, 

 and shall give order upon these our letters, that wee may 

 have knowledge how the same is accepted of you, and 

 whether it wilbe granted, with sufficient securitie for our 

 subjects to go, and returne safe and secure from all 

 violences and injuries of your people, we on the other 

 side wil give order, that those commodities which 

 Almighty God hath bestowed upon our kingdomes 

 (which are in deed so excellent, that by reason of them 

 all princes are drawen to enter, and confirme leagues of 

 amitie and good neighborhood with us, by that meanes 

 to enjoy these so great blessings of God, which we have, 

 and they can in no case want) our subjects shall bring 

 them so abundantly and plentifully to the kingdomes 

 and dominions of your highnesse, that both the former 

 inconveniences of necessitie, and losse, shall most 

 sufficiently be taken away. 



Moreover the signification and assurance of your 

 highnesse great affection to us and our nation, doeth 

 cause us also to intreat and use mediation on the behalfe 

 of certaine of our subjects, who are deteined as slaves 

 and captives in your Gallies, for whom we crave, that 

 forasmuch as they are fallen into that misery, not by any 

 offence of theirs, by bearing of armes against your high- 

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