QUEEN ELIZABETH'S LETTER a.d. 



1584. 

 Empire the onely and highest Monarch above all, 

 health, and many happy and fortunate yeres, with great 

 aboundance of the best things. 



Most noble and puissant Emperour, about two yeeres 

 nowe passed, wee wrote unto your Imperiall Majestie, 

 that our welbeloved servant, William Hareborne, a man 

 of great reputation and honour, might be received under 

 your high authoritie, for our Ambassadour in Constanti- 

 nople, and other places, under the obedience of your 

 Empire of Musulman : And also that the Englishmen, 

 being our Subjects, might exercise entercourse and 

 marchandize in all those Provinces, no lesse freely then 

 the French, Polonians, Venetians, Germanes, and other 

 your confederats, which traveile through divers of the 

 East parts : endevouring that by mutuall trafique, the 

 East may be joyned and knit to the West. 



Which privileges, when as your most puissant Majestie, 

 by your letters and under your dispensation most liberally 

 and favourably granted to our Subjects of England, wee 

 could no lesse doe, but in that respect give you as great 

 thankes, as our heart could conceive, trusting that it 

 wil come to passe, that this order of trafique, so well 

 ordeined, will bring with it selfe most great profits and 

 commodities to both sides, as well to the parties subject 

 to your Empire, as to the Provinces of our kingdome. 

 Which thing that it may be done in plaine and effectuall 

 maner, whereas some of our Subjects of late at Tripolis in 

 Barbarie, and at Argier, were by the inhabitants of those 

 places (being perhaps ignorant of your pleasure) evill 

 intreated and grievously vexed, wee doe friendly and 

 lovingly desire your Imperiall Majestie, that you will 

 understand their causes by our Ambassadour, and after- 

 ward give commaundement to the Lieutenants and Presi- 

 dents of those Provinces, that our people may henceforth 

 freely, without any violence, or injurie, traveile, and do 

 their businesse in those places. 



And we againe with all endevour, shall studie to 

 performe all those things, which we shall in any wise 



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