QUEEN ELIZABETH S LETTERS ad. 



amicitiae & commercii propagationem, subditis vestris 

 omnibus & singulis, si serenissimae Majestati vestrae ita 

 visum fuerit, plenam & integram in ditionis nostrae 

 quascunque regiones veniendi, commorandi, negotiandi, 

 & revertendi, potestatem per prassentes has literas 

 nostras libentissime concedimus. Quae omnia & singula 

 regii nostri sigilli appositione communiri fecimus. Deus 

 opt. max. coeli & terrae conditor, regiam Majestatem 

 vestram diutissime servet incolumem. Datae in Palatio 

 nostro Grenovici xj. mensis Julii Anno Christi 1596. 

 annoque nostri regni xxxviij. 



The same in English. 



ELizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England, 

 France, and Ireland, the most mightie defendresse 

 of the true & christian faith against all that falsely 

 professe the name of Christ ^c. To the most high 

 and soveraigne Prince the most puissant Governour of 

 the great kingdome of China, the chiefest Emxperour 

 in those parts of Asia and of the Hands adjoyning, and 

 the great monarke of the orientall regions of the world ; 

 wisheth health, and many joyfull and happy yeeres, with 

 all plenty and abundance of things most acceptable. 

 Whereas our honest and faithfull subjects which bring 

 these letters unto your Highnesse, Richard Allot & 

 Thomas Bromefield, marchants of our citie of London 

 in our foresaid kingdome of England, have made most 

 earnest suit unto us, that we would commend their 

 desires and endevours of sayling to the regions of 

 your Empire for traffiques sake : whereas also the fame 

 of your kingdome so strongly and prudently governed, 

 being dispersed and published over the face of the whole 

 earth, hath invited these our subjects not onely to visite 

 your Highnesse dominions, but also to permit themselves 

 to be ruled and governed by the lawes and constitutions 

 of your kingdome during the time of their aboad in 

 those partes of the world, as it becommeth marchants, 

 who for exchange of marchandize are desirous to travell 



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