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the Audience for the afternoone, would have me bring the 

 Ambassador by ten in the forenoon) we camie with three 

 Coaches, besides the Kings to Court, where conducting him 

 immediately up to the Princes Privy Chamber (for in absence 

 of his Highness was purposely hung for honour of the Am- 

 bassador) he was fetcht thence by the Earle of Anglesey 

 through the Privy Chamber, and the Withdrawing-Chamber ; 

 (where the Duke met him) into the King's Bedchamber ; 

 There having made his two first respects of Approach with his 

 Turbant on, (his whole habite being Persian) at the third, he 

 took it off, and laid it at the Kings feete, and made his 

 Speech of Entrance kneeling, till the King willing him to arise 

 and come, he did, and presenting his Letters of Credence 

 (written in the Persian Language, and un-understood for 

 want of an Interpreter no where then to be found in England :) 

 After this, having gratious words, and countenances from his 

 Majesty, he returned accompanied as he came to the Prince 

 his Lodgings, where Master Secretary Conway repairing to 

 him, intertained him an hour with discourse concerning the 

 Propositions of his Negociation, (which he had a little before 

 delivered to him, and the Duke in Writing,) and so returned 

 to Saxham." * 



In connection with this subject it only remains to 

 be said that two years after these events took place a 

 rival ambassador — one Nagdi Bey — landed in England, 

 who pronounced Sir Robert Shirley to be an impostor, 

 contending that he alone was properly accredited to 

 the English court. Curious complications then arose 

 between the rival ambassadors, the East India and 

 Turkey Companies, and their respective partisans. The 

 court officials and the ministers of state were sorely 

 puzzled what to believe. Shirley waited on Nagdi 

 Bey at his lodgings on Tower Hill, but, whether owing 

 to the proximity of his hotel to Billingsgate or other 



* " Philoxenis," p. 135. 



