A LETTER TO JOHN TIPTON a.d. 



1584. 



in them, hath the grand Signior now delivered us free, . 

 Wil. Moore, and Rob. Rawlings, & further promised 

 the rest in like case, wheresoever they be, & that here- 

 after no violence shalbe shewed, considering ours be 

 merchants ships which go peaceably in their voiage, & 

 were ignorant of the orders of Algier, neither knew afar 

 off, whether they were friends or the Christians gallies 

 in league against us, of whom they most doubted, who 

 not suffring our ships to come into these parts, wil 

 make prize of the goods & captive the men, so as they 

 are not to let them come nigh them : & since ours 

 have not done contrary to the articles of the same 

 privilege, wherein is no order for Algier prescribed us, 

 as both by the originall now sent us, & also by the 

 copy now sent you from London you may perceive, 

 they according to right are as abovesaid to be set free, 

 and their goods restored, which if it be not there 

 accomplished as the grand Signior hath now commanded 

 & most faithfully promised, neither yet in case of their 

 denial, those offenders punished here, and our injuries 

 redressed, we are to demand our Congie, & command 

 our merchants her majesties subjects, to end their traffike 

 here, which in our countrey commodities is prooved 

 & found by the grand Signior to be so beneficial to his 

 countries as we are assured so well thereof, as also for 

 the honor which his ancestors never had of friendship 

 w^ so mighty a prince as is her majesty, he wil not but 

 maintaine ye faith promised her, & the intercourse in due 

 force. And where you say y* the grand Signor his 

 letters, in the behalf of the French, were no more accepted 

 there, then of a mean man, nor tooke no place, that is 

 not material to us, our letters are after another sort much 

 more effectuall. For our case & theirs be found far 

 different, in y* they be not onely now out of favour with 

 him, but also the commodities which they bring hither, as 

 suger, paper, bracelets, ropes of bast almonds, &c. all 

 which may be here wel spared, & we contrarily so wel 

 esteemed, as he never denied us any thing since our 



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