especially if it may appeare that it be not damageable vnto your royall
Maiestie, and that to your people it will bring some profite: of both which
things he not doubting, with more willing minde hath prepared himselfe for
his destinated voyage vnto vs well liked of. For by this meanes we
perceiue, that the profit which by the mutual trade on both sides, al the
princes our neighbors in the West do receiue, your Imperial maiestie and
those that be subiect vnder your dominion, to their great ioy and benefit
shal haue the same, which consisteth in the transporting outward of such
things whereof we haue plenty, and in bringing in such things as we stand
in need of. It cannot otherwise be, but that seeing that we are borne and
made to haue need one of another, and that wee are bound to aide one
another, but that your imperial Maiestie wil wel like of it, and by your
subiects with like indeuor wil be accepted. For the increase whereof, if
your imperial Maiestie shall adde the securitie of passage, with other
priuileges most necessary to vse the trade with your men, your maiestie
shall doe that which belongeth to a most honorable and liberal prince, and
deserue so much of vs, as by no continuance or length of time shalbe
forgotten. Which request of ours we do most instantly desire to be taken in
good part of your maiestie, and so great a benefit towards vs and our men,
we shall endeuor by diligence to requite when time shal serue thereunto.
The God Almighty long preserue your Imperial Maiestie.

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A letter of M. Iohn Newbery, written from Alepo, to M. Richard Hakluyt of
Oxford, the 28 of May, Anno 1583.

Right wellbeloued, and my assured good friend, I heartily commend me vnto
you, hoping of your good health, &c. After we set saile from Grauesend,
which was the 13. day of February last, wee remained vpon our coast vntill
the 11. day of March, and that day we set saile from Falmouth, and neuer
ankered till wee arriued in the road of Tripolie in Syria, which was the
last day of Aprill last past, where wee stayed 14. dayes: and the twentie
of this present we came hither to Alepo, and with Gods helpe, within fiue
or sixe dayes goe from hence towards the Indies. [Sidenote: Abilfada Ismael
his Cosmographie.] Since my comming to Tripolis I haue made very earnest
inquirie both there and here, for the booke of Cosmographie of Abilfada
Ismael, but by no meanes can heare of it. Some say that poss