A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1582. 



[II. i, 159.] Mustafaracarum ordinem Caesarea vestra Majestas recipere 

 dignetur. Si in his aliisque omnibus honestis causis hie 

 noster agens subditique nostri Imperatoriae vestrae sub- 

 limitatis aequanimitatem senserint, florebit inter has gentes 

 nobile commercium, & nos omnibus officiis huic vestrae 

 Majestatis favori & benevolentiae (si ulla ratione rebus 

 vestris commodare poterimus) respondere libentissime 

 semper paratae erimus. Deus optimus maximus mundi 

 opifex, &c. 



The same in English. 



ELizabeth by the grace of the most mightie God and 

 only creator of heaven and earth, of England, 

 France, and Ireland Queene, the most invincible and 

 most mighty defender of the Christian faith against all 

 kind of idolatries of all that live among the Christians 

 and falsly professe the name of Christ, unto the most 

 Imperiall and most invincible prince. Sultan Murad Can, 

 the most mighty ruler of the kingdom of Turkic, sole 

 above all, and most soveraigne Monarch of the East 

 Empire, greeting. 



Whereas at our request your Imperiall Majestic in the 

 yeere of our Saviour Jesus 1580. hath entered into a 

 league of peace with us, whereunto was united a most 

 large & bountiful grant of certaine privileges, by benefite 

 whereof our subjects may with all securitie most safely 

 and freely travel! by Sea and land into all and singular 

 parts of your MusulmanHke Empire, and in the same 

 exercising the trade of merchandise, may traffique, dwell, 

 remaine, depart from thence, and returne thither at their 

 pleasure, and in all places be maintained and defended 

 from all damage of bodies and goods, by such as are in 

 authoritie under your Imperiall Majestic : we thankfully 

 and gratefully receiving the benefite of so great a 

 privilege, as much as in us lieth doe approove and con- 

 firme the same, promising in the worde of a Prince, that 

 wee will keepe the said league perfect and inviolable, and 

 will cause our subjects so to use the grant of the 



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