TO SIR ROBERT CECIL 



Mahumetan, when hee hath advauntage and is in his 

 choler. 



Lastly, I have here put downe at large the happie 

 renuing and much increasing of our interrupted trade in 

 all the Levant, accomplished by the great charges and 

 speciall industrie of the worshipfull and worthy Citizens, 

 Sir Edward Osborne Knight, M. Richard Staper, and M. 

 William Hareborne, together with the league for traffike 

 onely betweene her Majestie and the Grand Signior, with 

 the great privileges, immunities, and favours obteyned of 

 his imperiall Highnesse in that behalfe, the admissions 

 and residencies of our Ambassadours in his stately 

 Porch, and the great good and Christian offices which her 

 Sacred Majestie by her extraordinary favour in that Court 

 hath done for the king and kingdome of Poland, and 

 other Christian Princes : the traffike of our Nation in all 

 the chiefe Havens of Africa and Egypt : the searching and 

 haunting the very bottome of the Mediterran Sea to the 

 ports of Tripoli and Alexandretta, of the Archipelagus, by 

 the Turkes now called The white sea, even to the walles 

 of Constantinople : the voyages over land and by river 

 through Aleppo, Birrha, Babylon and Balsara, and downe 

 the Persian gulfe to Ormuz, and thence by the Ocean sea 

 to Goa, and againe over-land to Bisnagar, Cambaia, Orixa, 

 Bengala, Aracan, Pegu, Malacca, Siam, the langomes, 

 Quicheu, and even to the Frontiers of the Empire of 

 China : the former performed diverse times by sundry of 

 our nation, and the last great voyage by M. Ralph Fitch, 

 who with M. John Newbery and two other consorts 

 departed from London with her Majesties letters written 

 effectually in their favour to the kings of Cambaia and 

 China in the yere 1583, who in the yeere 1591. like 

 another Paulus Venetus returned home to the place of his 

 departure, with ample relation of his wonderfull travailes, 

 which he presented in writing to my Lord your father of 

 honourable memorie. 



Now here if any man shall take exception against this 

 our new trade with Turkes and misbeleevers, he shall 



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