THE PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA 



A Passeport of the Earle of Leicester for Thomas 

 Forster gentleman travaihng to Constantinople. 



Obertus Comes Leicestriae, baro de Den- 

 bigh, ordinum Garterii & Sancti Mich- 

 aelis eques auratus, Serenissimse Reginas 

 Angliae a Secretioribus consiliis, & magis- 

 ter equorum, dux & capitaneus generalis 

 exercitus ejusdem Regiae majestatis in 

 Belgio, & gubernator generalis Hol- 

 landiae, Zelandiae, & provinciarum unitarum & associa- 

 tarum, omnibus ad quos praesentes literas pervenerint, 

 salutem. Cum lator praesentium Thomas Forster nobilis 

 Anglus necessariis de causis hinc Constantinopolim pro- 

 fecturus sit, & inde ad nos quanta potest celeritate 

 reversurus : petimus ab omnibus & singulis Regibus, 

 principibus, nobilibus, magistratibus, & aliis, mandent 

 & permittant dicto Thomae cum duobus famulis liberum 

 transitum per eorum ditiones & territoria sine deten- 

 tione aut impedimento injusto, & provideri sibi de 

 necessariis justum precium reddenti, ac aliter conveni- 

 enter & humaniter tractari, ut occasiones ejus eundi & 

 redeundi requirent : Sicut nos Majestates, Serenitates, 

 Celsitudines, & dominationes vestrae paratos invenietis, ut 

 vestratibus in similibus casibus gratum similiter faciamus. 

 Datum in castris nostris Duisburgi, decimo die Septem- 

 bris, anno 1586. stylo veteri. 



A description of the yeerely voyage or pilgrimage 

 of the Mahumitans, Turkes and Moores unto 

 Mecca in Arabia. 



Lexandria the most ancient citie in Africa situated 

 by the seaside containeth seven miles in circuite, 

 and is environed with two walles one neere to 



A.D. 



c. 1580. 



the other with high towers, but the walles within be 

 farre higher then those without, with a great ditch 

 round about the same : yet is not this Citie very 



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