A.D. 



^579- 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



nesse, or in behaving of themselves contrary to honestie, 

 and to the law of nations, they may be delivered from 

 their bondage, and restored to libertie, for their service 

 towardes us, according to their duetie : which thing 

 shall yeeld much more abundant cause to us of com- 

 mending your clemencie, and of beseeching that God 

 (who onely is above all things, and all men, and is a 

 most severe revenger of all idolatrie, and is jelous of 

 his honour against the false gods of the nations) to 

 adorne your most invincible Imperiall highnesse with 

 all the blessings of those gifts, which onely and 

 deservedly are accounted most worthy of asking. 



Given at our palace of Greenwich, neere to our 

 Citie of London, the five and twentieth day of October, 

 in the yeere of Jesus Christ our Saviour one thousand, 

 five hundreth, seventie and nine, and of our reigne 

 the one and twentieth. 



[II. i. 141.] The charter of the privileges granted to the 

 English, & the league of the great Turke 

 with the Queenes Majestie in respect of 

 trafRque, dated in June 1580. 



Mmensa & maxima ex potestate poten- 

 tissimi, terribilibiisque verbis & nun- 

 quam finienda innumerabilive dementia 

 & ineffabili auxilio sanctissimi & pura 

 mente colendissimi tremendissimique 

 universitatum creatoris, princeps tem- 

 porum praesentium, unicus modernas 



aetatis monarcha, totius orbis terrarum potentibus sceptra 

 dividere potens, dementias, gratiaeque divinas umbra, 

 regnorum provinciarumve, & urbium civitatumve dis- 

 tributor permultarum : Nos sacratissimus Caesar Muzul- 

 manicus, Mecchae, id est domus divinae, Medinae, 

 gloriosissimae & beatissimas Jerusalem, Aegypti fer- 

 tilissimas, Jemen & Zovan, Eden & Canan, Sami 

 paciferae & Hebes, Jabza & Pazra, Zeruzub & Hale- 



178 



