AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1584. 



foedus faciant, ita ut nunquam hujusmodi querela hue 

 veniat, quia quicquid acciderit, a te expostulabimus. 

 Negligentiam postponito, & insigni Caesareo fidem ad- 

 hibeto. 



S' 



A commaundement for Egypt. 



Cito quod orator Reginae Angliae in porta mea existens 

 libellum supplicem ad portam nostram mittens signi- 

 ficavit, quod cum ex ^gypto Consul eorum abesset, 

 Consul illic Gallicus existens, Vento nuncupatus, quamvis 

 ante haec tempora ne manus in Anglos mitteret mandatum 

 nostrum fuerit datum, Angli sub vexillo & tutela nostra 

 sunt inquiens, mandatum Caesareum vili existimans, non 

 cessavit perturbare Anglos. Quare scito quod Reginae 

 Angliae privilegium nostrum est datum. Juxta illud 

 privilegium Anglis nulla ratione Consul Gallicus Con- 

 sulatum agat, neve manus immittat, mandatum nostrum 

 postulavit ejus legatus. Quare mando, ut contra privi- 

 legium nostrum Consul Gallicus Anglis injuriam non 

 inferat, neve Consulatum agat. Judici ^gypti literae 

 nostrae sunt datae : banc ob causam mando tibi quoque, 

 ut juxta illud mandatum nostrum, contra privilegium 

 nostrum Anglis Galium Consulatum agere nunquam 

 patiare. Sic scito, & insigni meo fidem adhibeto. 



[II. i. 183.] A commaundement of the Grand Signior to the 

 Cadie or Judge of Alexandria. 



THe Embassadour for the Queenes most excellent 

 Majestic of England certified us howe that at the 

 death of one of their marchants in Alexandria called 

 Edward Chamberlaine, the French Consul Vento sealing 

 up his fondego and chamber, tooke under his scale al 

 his goods and marchandise into his power, and required 

 our commandement that all the goods might be restored 

 againe according to justice unto the Englishmen : where- 

 fore we commaund you that having received this our 

 commandement, you assemble those of the one part and 

 of the other together, and if it be not passed five yeeres, if 



