A.D. 

 1584. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



require to passe peaceably on their voiage, which you 

 would deny, saying, the peace is broken because you have 

 shot at us, and so make prize of them contrary to our 

 privileges, and against reason : for the preventing of 

 which inconvenience the said ambassador hath required 

 this our commaundement. We therefore command thee, 

 that upon sight hereof thou doe not permit any such 

 matter in any sort whatsoever, but suffer the sayd 

 Englishmen to passe in peace according to the tenour 

 of our commandement given, without any disturbance or 

 let by any means upon the way, although that meeting 

 with thy gallies, and not knowing them afarre off, they 

 taking them for enemies should shoote at them, yet shall 

 you not suffer them to hurt them therfore, but quietly to 

 passe. Wherefore looke thou that they may have right, 

 according to our privilege given them, & finding any that 

 absenteth himself, & wil not obey this our commande- 

 ment, presently certify us to our porch, that we may give 

 order for his punishment, and with reverence give faith- 

 full credite to this our commandement, which having 

 read, thou shalt againe returne it unto them that present it. 

 From our palace in Constantinople, the i. of June, 1584. 



A letter of the honorable M. Wil. Hareborne 

 her majesties ambass. with the grand Signior 

 to M. Tipton, appointing him Consul of the 

 English in Algier, Tunis, & Tripolis of 

 Barbarie. 



Aster Tipton, I have received among 

 others, yours of the 10. of November 

 1584. by Soliman Sorda, certifying the 

 receipt of mine of the 24. of June 

 1584. with the 3. commandements, which 

 not being registred, let it now be done. 

 Where you write the force of the privi- 

 lege to be broken by our ships in shooting, & therfore 

 be lawfully taken, you are deceived, for of those taken 



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