A COMMANDMENT FOR ALEXANDRIA ad. 



1584. 

 you have not looked to it heretofore, now carefully looke 

 to it, & if it be according to their Arz or certificate 

 presented unto us, that the foresaid French Consull Vento 

 hath wrongfully taken into his power the goods of the 

 deceased English marchant under his scale, that then you 

 cause him to restore all the said goods and marchandise 

 sealed by him, and make good that which is thereof 

 wanting unto the English marchants : doe in this matter 

 according to justice, and credite this our scale. 



A commandement to the Bassa of Alexandria. 



THe Embassadour for the Queenes most excellent 

 Majesty of England by supplication certified us, 

 how that notwithstanding our privilege granted them 

 to make Consuls in al parts of our dominions to governe 

 their nation according to their owne custome & law, to 

 defend them against all wrongs and injuries whatsoever : 

 yet that the French Consull affirming to thee that art 

 Bassa, that they were under his banner, and that he 

 should governe them, and oversee their businesse, and 

 having got a new privilege, mentioning therein the 

 English men to be under his banner, did by all meanes 

 molest & trouble them, insomuch that their Consull 

 oppressed with many injuries fled away, and that thou 

 which art Beglerbie didst maintaine the French Consul 

 herein ; whereupon the Embassadour required our com- 

 mandement, that they might have justice for these 

 injuries : wherefore we command thee that having re- 

 ceived this our commandement, you examine diligently 

 that his privilege, and send the copie thereof hither, and 

 if it be found that the French Consull Vento hath by 

 subtiltie got the aforesaid privilege written, that you then 

 see him punished, and suffer not hereafter the French or 

 Venetian Consuls to intermeddle with their businesse. 

 Obey this our commaundement, and give credite to 

 the scale. 



[A commaundement 

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