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introduction.
XV
" I comitt yor honnor to Code's most mercifull protection this
2ith of October 1599.
" Yor honnors most dewtifull
" Ever to comand,
" Henry Lello."
Addressed—
"To the right HonbIe Sir Robert Cecill, knight, principal
secrrie t0 j-]ie Queen's most Ex1 Magtle and Her Highnes'
honorable privie Counseill."
§ 2.—Of the Dallam Family.
Such was the state of affairs in Constantinople
when Master Thomas Dallam, whose diary we here
produce, went to present a complicated organ, which
he had made, as a gift from Queen Elizabeth to
Sultan Mahomed III. His MS. diary was written
just after the publication of Richard Hakluyt's
volumes of travels, or else it would in all probability
have been included in them. From the foregoing
remarks it will easily be seen why so handsome a
gift was sent out with so much trouble ; the Queen
was anxious for the Sultan's friendship and allegi-
ance against her Catholic enemies. To further the
interests of the infantile Levant Company such a
Present would be exceedingly useful, and, in choosing
Dallam as the bearer of this present, Queen Eliza-
beth evidently selected, as subsequent events showed,
the most skilled man in his craft that she could.
Some interesting notes with regard to this present
may be gathered from the State Papers, Jan. 1596.
For some time there had been a discussion about
sending a present to the new Sultan of Turkey.
XV
" I comitt yor honnor to Code's most mercifull protection this
2ith of October 1599.
" Yor honnors most dewtifull
" Ever to comand,
" Henry Lello."
Addressed—
"To the right HonbIe Sir Robert Cecill, knight, principal
secrrie t0 j-]ie Queen's most Ex1 Magtle and Her Highnes'
honorable privie Counseill."
§ 2.—Of the Dallam Family.
Such was the state of affairs in Constantinople
when Master Thomas Dallam, whose diary we here
produce, went to present a complicated organ, which
he had made, as a gift from Queen Elizabeth to
Sultan Mahomed III. His MS. diary was written
just after the publication of Richard Hakluyt's
volumes of travels, or else it would in all probability
have been included in them. From the foregoing
remarks it will easily be seen why so handsome a
gift was sent out with so much trouble ; the Queen
was anxious for the Sultan's friendship and allegi-
ance against her Catholic enemies. To further the
interests of the infantile Levant Company such a
Present would be exceedingly useful, and, in choosing
Dallam as the bearer of this present, Queen Eliza-
beth evidently selected, as subsequent events showed,
the most skilled man in his craft that she could.
Some interesting notes with regard to this present
may be gathered from the State Papers, Jan. 1596.
For some time there had been a discussion about
sending a present to the new Sultan of Turkey.