A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1579- 



grace we reigne, hath planted in us this goodnesse of 

 nature, that wee detest and abhorre the least suspition 

 of ingratitude, and hath taught us not to suffer our selves 

 to bee overmatched with the good demerits of other 

 Princes. And therefore at this time wee doe extende our 

 good minde unto your highnesse, by well conceiving, 

 and publishing also abroad, how much we repute our 

 selfe bound in an everlasting remembrance for this good 

 pleasure to our Subjects, meaning to yeelde a much more 

 large and plentifull testification of our thankefulnesse, 

 when time convenient shall fall out, and the same shall 

 bee looked for at our handes. 



But whereas that graunt which was given to a fewe 

 of our Subjects, and at their onely request without any 

 intercession of ours, standeth in as free a libertie of 

 comming and going to and from all the lands and 

 kingdoms subject to your Majestie, both by land & 

 sea with marchandizes, as ever was granted to any of 

 your Imperiall highnesse confederates, as namely to the 

 French, the Polonians, the Venetians, as also to the 

 subjects of the king of the Romanes, wee desire of your 

 highnesse that the commendation of such singular 

 courtesie may not bee so narrowly restrained to two or 

 three men onely, but may be inlarged to all our subjects 

 in generall, that thereby your highnesse goodnesse may 

 appeare the more notable, by reason of the graunting of 

 the same to a greater number of persons. The bestowing 

 of which so singular a benefit your highnesse shall so 

 much the lesse repent you of, by howe much the more 

 fit and necessary for the use of man those commodities 

 are, wherewith our kingdomes doe abound, and the 

 kingdomes of other princes doe want, so y^ there is no 

 nation that can be without them, but are glad to come by 

 them, although by very long and difficult travels : and 

 when they have them, they sell them much deerer to 

 others, because every man seeketh to make profite by 

 his labour : so that lin the getting of them there is profit, 

 but in the buying of them from others there is losse. 



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