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 compass of these 1600 yeeres . it, that no Englishmen shouldbe molested or made slaves in any part of hisDominions, obtained by the aforesaid Roberts. N the Name of the pitifull and the The samemercifull God, &c. The servant of the EnSltsh-supreme God, the conqueror in his cause,the successor advanced by God, theEmperour of the Moores, the sonne ofthe Emperour of the Moores, the Jariffe,the Haceny, w
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 compass of these 1600 yeeres . it, that no Englishmen shouldbe molested or made slaves in any part of hisDominions, obtained by the aforesaid Roberts. N the Name of the pitifull and the The samemercifull God, &c. The servant of the EnSltsh-supreme God, the conqueror in his cause,the successor advanced by God, theEmperour of the Moores, the sonne ofthe Emperour of the Moores, the Jariffe,the Haceny, whose honour God longincrease and advance his estate. This our princely com-mandement is delivered into the hands of the Englishmarchants, which remaine in the protection of our statelypalaces : to the ende that all men which shall see thisipresent writing, may understand that our princelyjcounsaile wil defend them by the favor of God, fromany thing that may impeach or hurt them in what sortjsoever they shalbe wronged : and that, which way soeverthey shall travaile, no man shall take them captives inllthese our kingdomes, ports, and places which belongunto us, which also may protect and defend them by our 429. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES authoritie from any molestation whatsoever: and thatno man shall hinder them by laying violent hand uponthem, and shall not give occasion that they may belgrieved in any sort by the favour and assistance of we charge and command our officers of our havens!and fortresses, and all such as beare any authoritie inthese our dominions, and likewise all the common people,}that in no wise they do molest them, in such sort that!they be no way offended or wronged. And this ourcommandement shall remaine inviolable, being registredjin the middest of the moneth of Rabel in the yeere996. The date of this letter agreeth with the 20. of March1587. which I Abdel Rahman el Catan, interpretour!for his Majestie, have translated and turned out ofthe Arabia
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