A.D. 



1582. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



using traffique in any place or part whatsoever, subject to 

 the governement of that Empire, to appoint the places 

 of their traffiques, in what Haven or Citie it shall please 

 him, and to prohibite them from all other places, and 

 wheresoever their traffiques are appointed to bee kept, 

 there to make and create Consuls or Governours, to 

 enact lawes and statutes, by the vertue and tenor whereof 

 all our foresayd subjects, and every one of them, shall 

 both publikely and privately use and behave themselves, 

 to correct and punish the breakers of those lawes : and 

 last of all, to doe and fulfill all and singular things what- 

 soever, which shall seeme requisite and convenient for 

 the honest and orderly government of our said subjects, 

 and of the maner of their traffique in those parts. Pro- 

 mising assuredly, and in the word of a Prince, that 

 whatsoever shall be done of our sayd Orator and Agent, 

 in all, or in any of the premisses, not repugnant and 

 contrary to our lawes, shall be accepted, ratified, and 

 confirmed by us. In witnesse whereof, we have caused 

 these our letters to be made patents, and our scale there- 

 unto to be appensed. Given at our Castle of Windsore, 

 the 20. day of November, in the yeere of Christ 1582. 

 and of our raigne the 24. 



The Queenes Letter to the great Turke 1582. 

 written in commendation of Master Hare- 

 borne, w^hen he v^as sent Ambassadour. 



LIZABETH &c. Augustissimo invic- 

 tissimoque principi, &c. Cum ad postu- 

 latum nostrum Cassarea vestra Majestas, 

 anno salvatoris nostri Jesu 1580. pacis 

 foedus nobiscum pepigerit, conjunctum 

 cum liberalissima privilegiorum quorun- 

 dam concessione, quorum beneficio sub- 

 diti nostri cum omni securitate tutissime liberrimeque ad 

 universas & singulas Musulmanici imperii vestri partes terra 

 marique proficisci, in iisque commercii exercendi gratia, 



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