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Original Letters Illustrative of English History, 1; Including Numerous Royal Letters From Autographs
Original Letters Illustrative of English History 1 Including Numerous Royal Letters From Autographs Author:Henry Ellis General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1846 Original Publisher: Richard Bentley Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free tri... more »al access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER CCCCIX. Edmund Hogan to Queen Elizabeth, announcing his Arrival and first Negotiations at Morocco. [ms. Cotton. Nero. B. xi. 297. Orig. Ma Ye it please your Majestie to be advertised that after your Highnes Xettres beeinge derecktid unto the Kinge of Barbere, with your Majesties Commission signid, delyverid unto me, I preparid myselfe for theese partis, imbarking at Portesmothe, the vj daye of Maye, and the ... of the same monthe aryved on this coste of Barbere, at a porte of the Kinges cawlid Saphia. I remanid a boorde shipp in the Rode, and wrott lettres to Marocus, wheare the Kinge keepes his Coorte. At the ende of v. dayes, the Kinge beinge informyd of my arivall, sente sartayne captaynes with soldiers and Englishe marchauntes to me for to saphecundit me upp to his Coorte, declaringe that he greatley rejoysed at the Letter from your Majestie. So as the first of June I cam to his Citty of Marocus, and upon the third by his order mett me all the Christean marchauntes; and neere to the Citty, some of his souldiors; whome declarid it was the Kings pleasur to honnor your Majestie all he coolde devise, and thearfore I thoughte it good I shoolde cum to his presence. So to his pallace I was broughte, and to the presence of the Kinge settinge in his chare of estate, and his Cownsallors, beeinge as well Moores as Christeans, standinge abowte hym. I dutifulley delyverid your MatiM lettres and declarid ray message in Spanishe, which allbeit he well undarstoode, and cawsid one to make relation what I said in the Arrabik lan...« less