WILLIAM HAREBORNE'S AMBASSAGE ad. 



1583. 



of the realme, and winne you perpetuall fame, and 

 the prayer of the poore, which is more woorth then 

 all the golde of Peru and of all the West Indies. 



The voyage of the Susan of London to Con- 

 stantinople, wherein the worshipfull M. 

 William Harborne was sent first Ambassadour 

 unto Sultan Murad Can, the great Turke, 

 with whom he continued as her Majesties 

 Ligier almost sixe yeeres. 



He 14 of November 1582, we departed 

 from Blackewall, bound for the Citie 

 of Constantinople, in the tall shippe 

 called the Susan of London : the 

 Master whereof was Richard Parsons, 

 a very excellent and skilfull man in 

 his facultie. But by occasion of contrary 

 weather we spent two moneths before we could recover 

 the Kowes in the Isle of Wight. Where the 14 of [II. i. 166.] 

 January following we tooke in the worshipfull M. J^^^^^y ^^^ 

 William Hareborne her Majesties Ambassadour to the >^^^^^^''^^- 

 Turke, and his company, and sailed thence to Yarmouth 

 in the foresayd Isle of Wight. The 19 we put from 

 Wight. The 26 we did see Cavo de Sant Vincente. C. Vincente, 

 The same day we were thwart of Cavo Santa Maria. C. Santa 

 The 27 we passed by Tariffa, and Gibraltar. The 28 ^^^'']^' 

 in the morning we passed by Velez Malaga : and that y\ 

 night were thwart of Cavo de Gates. The 29 at night Malaga. 

 we had sight of Cavo de Palos. The 30 in the C. de Gates, 

 morning we did see the high land of Denia, in the ^" ^f ^^^^' 

 kingdome of Valentia, and that night we had sight of ^^^^" 

 the Hand Formentera. The 31 in the morning ap- Formentera, 

 peared the Hand of Cabrera. The first of February Cabrera. 

 we put into a Port in Mallorca, called Porto de Sant February the 

 Pedro : where they would have evill intreated us for A-^^- 

 comming into the Harbour : we thought we might ^ ^^^^* 

 have bene as bolde there as in other places of Christen- 



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