QUEEN ELIZABETH'S LETTER 



deliverance aforesaide : and also for her honourable privie 

 Counsell, and I especiall for the prosperitie and good 

 estate of the house of the late deceased, the right honour- 

 able the Earle of Bedford, whose honour I must confesse, 

 most diligently at the suite of my father now departed, 

 traveiled herein : for the which I rest continually bounden 

 to him, whose soule I doubt not, but is already in the 

 heavens in joy, with the Almightie, unto which place he 

 vouchsafe to bring us all, that for our sinnes suffered 

 most vile and shameful death upon the Crosse, there to 

 live perpetually world without ende, Amen. 



The Queenes letters to the Turke 1584. for the 

 restitution of the shippe called the Jesus, and 

 the English captives detained in Tripolie in 

 Barbaric, and for certaine other prisoners in 



Argier. 



LIZABETHA, Dei ter maximi & unici 

 coeli terraeque conditoris gratia, Anglic, 

 Franciae, & Hibernias Regina, fidei 

 Christianas contra omnes omnium inter 

 Christianos degentium, Christique nomen 

 falso profitentium idololatrias, invictissima 

 & potentissima defensatrix : augustissimo, 

 invictissimoque principi, Zultan Murad Can, Musulmanici 

 regni dominatori potentissimo, imperiique Orientis 

 Monarchae, supra omnes soli & supremo salutem, & 

 multos cum summa rerum optimarum affluentia foelices 

 & fortunatos annos. 



Augustissime & potentissime Imperator, biennio jam 

 peracto, ad Cssaream vestram Majestatem scripsimus, ut 

 dilectus noster famulus Guilielmus Harebornus, vir orna- 

 tissimus pro legato nostro Constantinopoli, aliisque 

 Musulmanici imperii ditionibus, sublimi vestra autho- 

 ritate reciperetur : simul etiam Angli subditi nostri 

 commercium & mercaturam, in omnibus illis provinciis 

 exerceant, non minus libere, quam Galli, Poloni, Veneti, 



311 



A.D. 

 1584. 



