DIRECTIONS TO RICHARD FORSTER ad. 



1583. 

 such order as 1 my selfe might doe by vertue of her 

 Majesties Commission given me the 26 of November 

 1582, the copie whereof I have annexed to this present 

 under her Majesties Seale delivered me to that use. 

 Straightly charging and commanding all her Majesties 

 subjects in those parts, as they will avoid her Highnesse 

 displeasure and their owne harmes, to honour his 

 authoritie, and have due respect unto the same, aiding 

 and assisting him there with their persons and goods in 

 any cause requisit to her Majesties good service, and 

 commoditie of her dominions. In witnesse whereof I 

 have confirmed and sealed these presents at Rapamat my 

 mansion house by Pera over against Constantinople, the 

 20 of June 1583. 



A letter of directions of the English Ambassadour 

 to M. Richard Forster, appointed the first 

 English Consul! at Tripolis in Syria. 



Ousin Forster, these few words are for 

 your remembrance when it shall please 

 the Almighty to send you safe arrivall 

 in Tripolis of Syria. When it shall please 

 God to send you thither, you are to 

 certifie our Nation at Tripolis of the 

 certaine day of your landing, to the end 

 they both may have their house in a readinesse, and 

 also meet you personally at your entrance to accompany 

 you, being your selfe apparelled in the best maner. The 

 next, second, or third day, after your comming, give it 

 out that you be crazed and not well disposed, by meanes 

 of your travell at Sea, during which time, you and those 

 there are most wisely to determine in what maner you 

 are to present your selfe to the Beglerbi, Cadi, and 

 other officers : who every of them are to be presented 

 according to the order accustomed of others formerly 

 in like office : which after the note of John Blanke, late 

 Vice-consuU of Tripolis for the French, delivered you 



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