A LETTER TO MUSTAPHA 



A.D. 

 1583. 



them harme. Wherefore if your honor do not get out [II. i. 174.] 

 two letters of the Grand Signior as aforesayd, & send 

 them hither with all speed by some one of your gentle- 

 men accompanied with a chaus of the Court, or some 

 other of the Grand Signiors servants, it is impossible that 

 our English ships can escape freely from these or the 

 Christians : for either they must of force go on the 

 Christian coast, and so fall into their hands, or els on 

 this coast, and fall into the kings of this towne, or 

 Tripolis, their hands, which if they should, will never be 

 recovered. And if your honor cannot obtaine this thing, 

 I beseech your honor in the behalfe of all the English 

 marchants (who sent me hither to follow such order as 

 your honor should give me) to certifie her Majesty, to 

 the end that they may be commanded to leave off 

 traffique, and not to lose their goods, and her poore 

 subjects the Mariners. And thus humbly taking my 

 leave, I desist from troubling your honor. From Algier 

 the tenth of February 1583. 



A letter of M. Harborne to Mustapha, challenging 

 him for his dishonest dealing in translating of 

 three of the Grand Signior his commande- 

 ments. 



Omine Mustapha, nescimus quid sibi velit, 

 cum nobis mandata ad finem utilem con- 

 cessa perperam reddas, qu« male scripta, 

 plus damni, quam utilitatis adferant : 

 quemadmodum constat ex tribus receptis 

 mandatis, in quibus summum aut prin- 

 cipal deest aut aufertur. In posterum 

 noli ita nobiscum agere. Ita enim ludibrio erimus 

 omnibus in nostrum & tuum dedecus. Cum nos mult- 

 arum actionum spem Turcice scriptarum in tua prudentia 

 reponimus, ita providere debes, ut non eveniant hujus- 

 modi mala. Quocirca deinceps cum mandatum aut 

 scriptum aliquod accipias, verbum ad verbum convertatur 



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