A LETTER TO JOHN TIPTON ad. 



1584. 

 Signiors & our patents for exercising the office of Consul 

 there, in Tripolis & Tunis : by vertue of which authoritie 

 you may without feare proceed as the office doeth 

 chalenge in defence of our privilege, to redresse all 

 injuries offi-ed our nation. Which if you cannot get 

 reformed there of ye Beglerbies upon your complaint, I 

 thereof advertised, shal doe it here, and to the uttermost 

 maintaine you in al rightful causes whatsoever, doubt you 

 not. And hereafter according to your advise, I wil and 

 do give our ships order not to fight with any gallies 

 of Alger, but to hoise out their skiffe and go aboord to 

 shew them their safeconduct, & to present the captain 

 with a garment, & you there in such like case are to take 

 order that they do not forceably take any thing from 

 them. Nothing doubting but the Viceroy (whose 

 friendship in her majesties behalfe I desire) will not 

 onely performe the same your just request, & according 

 to right, restore to libertie our men since the privilege 

 taken, but also cause those y^ tooke & sunke our ships to 

 answere the value, which I have set downe truly, and 

 rather with the least in the Inventorie translated into ^'^f -^'^^'^«- 

 Turkish, whereof the inclosed is the copy in English, ^V^ T 

 which I send to the end you may be the better informed goQ^^ sunke 

 of my demand by this our Chaus Mahomet, with whom and taken by 

 in all things you are to conferre of matters expedient, for tke gallies of 

 the honor of her majesties country, & the commoditie, ^^^' 

 and libertie of poore captives, which if the Viceroy do wel 

 consider, according to his wisedom, as the grand Signior 

 doeth thereof, he shal wel perceive it not onely a great 

 honour to his master as aforesaid, to continue this amitie 

 with her majestic, but chiefly to the whole estate of his 

 kingdom exceeding profitable, which by this means shall 

 be abundantly served with the chiefest commodities they 

 want, with many other things of more importance to the 

 grand Signior his contentation, not herein to be men- 

 tioned. For I know the Viceroies experienced wisdom 

 can wel consider thereof, in such sort as he wil not deny 

 to accomplish his masters commandement, & our earnest 



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