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APPENDICES
Appendix 1
A. Queen Elizabeth’s Letter to the Grand Signor (1584)
Elizabeth, by the Grace of the most high God, onely Maker of Heaven and
Earth, of England, France and Ireland Queene, and of the Christian Faith,
against all the Idolaters and false Professors of the Name of Christ dwelling
among the Christians, most invincible and puissant Defender; to the most
valiant and invincible Prince Sultan Murad Can, the most mightie Ruler of the
Kingdome of Musulman, and of the East Empire, the onely and highest
Monarch above all, Health and many happie and fortunate Yeeres, and great
Aboundance of the best Things.
Most noble and puissant Emperor: About two Yeeres now passed, We wrote
unto your Imperial Majestie, that our well-beloved Servant, William
Hareborne, a Man of great Reputation and Honour, might be received under
your high Authoritie, for Our Ambassadour in Constantinople, and other Places
under the Obedience of your Empire of Musulman: And also, that the
Englishmen, being Our Subjects, might exercise Entercourse and Merchandize
in all those Provinces, no less freely then the French, Polonium, Venetians,
Germanes, and other your Confederates, which travel through diverse of the
East Parts; endeavouring that, by mutual Traffike, the East may be joined and
knit to the West.
Which Priviledges, when as your most puissant Majestie, by your Letters and
under your Dispensation, most liberally and favourably granted to our Subjects
of England, we could no lesse doe, but in that respect give You as great
Thankes as our Heart could conceave; trusting that it will come to passe, that
this Order of Traffike, so well ordained, will bring with it selfe most great
Profits and Commodities to both Sides as well to the Parties subject to your
Empire, as to the Provinces of our Kingdome.
Which thing, that it may be done in plaine and effectuall manner, whereas
some of our Subjects of late, at Tripolis in Barbarie, and at Argier, were by the
Inhabitants of those Places (being perhaps ignorant of your Pleasure) evill
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