A.D. 



1583. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



His second Letter to the foresaid Master John 

 Eldred and William Shales. 



He barke of the Jewes is arrived here 

 two daies past, by whom I know you 

 did write, but your letters are not like 

 to come to my handes. This bringer 

 hath shewed me here very great cour- 

 tesie, wherfore I pray you shew him 

 what favor you may. About the middle 

 of the next moneth I thinke we shall depart from hence, 

 God be our guide. I thinke Andrew will goe by land 

 to Aleppo, wherein I pray you further him what you 

 may ; but if he should not goe, then I pray you 

 dispatch away a messenger with as much speede as pos- 

 sible you may. I can say no more, but do for me as 

 you would I should do for you in the like cause, and 

 so with my very hearty commendations, &c. From out 

 of the prison in Ormuz, this 24 day of September, 



1583- 



Yours, John Newberie. 



His third Letter to Maister Leonard Poore, 

 v^ritten from Goa. 



Michael Stro- 

 pene a?i 

 Italian accused 

 our men to 

 be spies. 



Y last I sent you was from Ormuz, 

 wherby I certified you what had hap- 

 pened there unto me, and the rest of 

 my company, which was, that foure 

 dayes after our arrivall there, we were 

 all committed to prison, except one 

 Italian which came with me from 

 Aleppo, whom the Captaine never examined, onely 

 demaunded what countryman he was, but I make 

 account Michael Stropene, who accused us, had informed 

 the Captaine of him. The first day we arrived there, 

 this Stropene accused us that we were spies sent from 

 Don Antonio, besides divers other lies : notwithstanding 



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