. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres. o certaine newes of them sincethe moneth of February next after their de-parture) we do suppose, may be arrived uponsome part of the coast of China, and may therebe stayed by the said Emperour, or perhapsmay have some treacherie wrought againstthem by the Portugales of Macao, or theSpaniards of the Philippinas. TJLizabetha Dei gracia Angliae, Franciae,& Hiberniae Regina, verae
. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres. o certaine newes of them sincethe moneth of February next after their de-parture) we do suppose, may be arrived uponsome part of the coast of China, and may therebe stayed by the said Emperour, or perhapsmay have some treacherie wrought againstthem by the Portugales of Macao, or theSpaniards of the Philippinas. TJLizabetha Dei gracia Angliae, Franciae,& Hiberniae Regina, verae & christianaefidei contra omnes falso Christi nomenprofitentes invictissima propugnatrix&c. Altissimo, Serenissimoque Principi,potentissimo magni regni Chinas domi-natori, summo in illis Asiae partibusInsulisque adjacentibus imperatori, & magno in orienta-libus mundi regionibus Monarchae, salutem, multosquecum omni optimarum rerum copia & affluentia laetos& foelices annos. Cum honesti & fideles subditi nostri,qui has literas nostras ad serenitatem vestram perferunt,Richardus AUott & Thomas Bromefield, civitatis nostrasLondini in dicto nostro regno Angliae mercatores, im- XI 417 2D. AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 1596. pense a nobis efflagitaverint, ut eorum studia ad imperii[III. 853.] vestri regiones (commercii gracia) navigandi commen-daremus: Cumque regni vestri fortiter prudenterqueadministrati fama, per universam terrarum orbem dis-seminata & divulgata, subditos hos nostros invitaverit,non solum ut dominationis vestrae regiones invisant, sedut regni vestri legibus & institutis, dum in illis mundipartibus commorati fuerint, regendos se & moderandospermittant, prout mercatores decet, qui mercimoniorumcommutandorum causa ad tarn longe dissitas, nee adhucnostro orbi satis cognitas regiones, penetrare cupiunt,illud unum spectantes, ut mercimonia sua, mercimonior-umque quorundam, quibus ditionis nostras regiones abund-ant, exemplaria quaedam sive specimina, serenitatis vestraesubditor
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