A.D. 



1583. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



repaire thither with expedition, and attend upon this your 

 charge, which the Almighty grant you well to accomplish. 

 For the due execution whereof, we heerewith send you 

 the Grand Signiors Patent of privilege with ours, and 

 what els is needfull therefore, in so ample maner, as any 

 other Consull whosoever doeth or may enjoy the same. 

 In ayd whereof, according to my bounden duety to her 

 Majesty our most gracious Mistresse, I will be ready 

 alwayes to employ my selfe to the generall benefit of 

 her Majesties subjects, for your maintenance in all just 

 causes incident to the same. And thus eftsoones re- 

 quiring and commanding you as above sayd, to performe 

 my request, I bid you most heartily well to fare, and 

 desire God to blesse you. From my mansion Rapamat 

 nigh Pera this 25 of April 1583. 



Commission given by M. William Hareborne the 

 English Ambassadour, to Richard Forster, 

 authorising him Consul of the English nation 

 in the parts of Alepo, Damasco, Aman, Tripolis, 

 Jerusalem, &c. 



William Harborne, her Majesties Am- 

 bassadour, Ligier with the Grand Signior, 

 for the affaires of the Levant doe in her 

 Majesties name confirme and appoint 

 Richard Forster Gentleman, my Deputie 

 and Consull in the parts of Alepo, 

 Damasco, Aman, Tripolis, Jerusalem, and 



all other ports whatsoever in the provinces of Syria, 

 Palestina, and Jurie, to execute the office of Consull over 

 all our Nation her Majesties subjects, of what estate 

 or quality soever : giving him hereby full power to 

 defend, protect, and maintaine all such her Majesties 

 subjects as to him shall be obedient, in all honest and 

 just causes whatsoever : and in like case no lesse power 

 to imprison, punish, and correct any and all such as he 

 shall finde disobedient to him in the like causes, even in 



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