TO THE 



RIGHT HONOURABLE 

 S r Thomas Davies, K r 



Lord Mayor of the City of L o n d o n. 



My Lord, 



T cannot be thought 

 that the Author of thefe 

 Travels had he not ve- 

 rily believd that there- 

 by he had eminently 

 ferv'd his King and 

 Country, would have 

 adventurd a Dedication to fo great a 

 Monarch as the King of Trance : Wherein 

 he prefumes to tell nim, that he was the 

 perfon that had brought him from the I//- 

 dies the faireft Jewels that at prefent adorn 

 his Crown^for which & feveral other fer- 

 vices done the Kingdom, His M ty honou- 

 • red him with theTitle of No Me. And indeed 

 it is not probable that a Potentate fo wife 

 and fo difcerning, had he not been con- 

 vinced of the merit and good fervice of 

 his Subjeâ:, would have receivd him with 

 that efteem, or have honoufd him with 



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