A COMMANDMENT FOR ALGIERS 



speedy returne, and for that which may be recovered, 

 make over the same either to Richard Rowed for 

 Patrasso in Morea, or otherwise hither to John Bate 

 in the surest maner you may, if the registring of that 

 your privilege and these commandements will not suffer 

 you in person to returne with the same. From my 

 Mansion Rapamat in Pera this 24. of June 1584. 



The commaundement obtained of the Grand 

 Signior by her Majesties ambassador M. Will. 

 Hareborne, for the quiet passing of her sub- 

 jects to and from his dominions, sent in 

 An. 1584. to the Viceroyes of Algier, Tunis 

 & Tripolis in Barbary. 



To our Beglerbeg of Algier. 



E certifie thee by this our commandement, 

 that the right honorable Will. Hareborne 

 ambassador to the Queenes majestie of 

 England hath signified unto us, that the 

 ships of that countrey in their comming 

 and returning to and from our Empire, 

 on the one part of the Seas have the 

 Spaniards, Florentines, Sicilians and Malteses, on the 

 other part our countreis committed to your charge : 

 which abovesaid Christians will not quietly suffer their 

 egresse and regresse, into, and out of our dominions, but 

 doe take and make the men captives, and forfeit the [II. 

 shippes and goods, as the last yeere the Malteses did one, 

 which they tooke at Gerbi, and to that end do continually 

 lie in wait for them to their destruction, whereupon they 

 are constrained to stand to their defence at any such time 

 as they might meet with them. Wherefore considering 

 by this means they must stand upon their guard, when 

 they shall see any gallie afarre off, whereby if meeting 

 with any of your gallies and not knowing them, in their 

 defence they do shoot at them, and yet after when they 

 doe certainly know them, do not shoote any more, but 



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A.D. 

 1584. 



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