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THE EARLY HISTORY OF
of that year. That he was a skilful and
diplomatic agent we know from later events,2 7
and evidently his very first visit to Constan-
tinople was successful. He managed to
obtain from the Sultan a letter to Queen
Elizabeth28 couched in flattering terms,
offering to open up the Turkish dominions
to the English traders who had sent Harborne,
and asking that liberty might be granted to
Turkish traders to come to England. The
reply to this 29 suggests that the grant which
the Sultan had been pleased to make to one
or two Englishmen only should be extended
to all English traders,30 and that in return
Elizabeth would grant equal liberties to the
subjects of the Sultan. This letter was
carried to Constantinople, where Harborne
then was,31 by the good ship the Prudence
27 Cf. V. S. P. VIII. Introduction, p. 43.
28 Hakluyt V. p. 169 gives this letter in full. It is
dated March 15, 1579. Cf. also Appendix VIII. No. 1
(page 239).
29 Hakluyt V. p. 171. It is dated Oct. 20, 1579.
30 Cf. S. P. D. Eliz. vol. 151, No. 33.
31 Cf. Elizabeth’s letter as quoted by Hakluyt V. p.
172 : Guilielmo Harborno in Imperial! Celsitudins ves-
trae civitate Constantinopoli commorante. ” Mr. Horatio
Brown in his Introduction to vol. 8 of V. S. P. (p. 30)
THE EARLY HISTORY OF
of that year. That he was a skilful and
diplomatic agent we know from later events,2 7
and evidently his very first visit to Constan-
tinople was successful. He managed to
obtain from the Sultan a letter to Queen
Elizabeth28 couched in flattering terms,
offering to open up the Turkish dominions
to the English traders who had sent Harborne,
and asking that liberty might be granted to
Turkish traders to come to England. The
reply to this 29 suggests that the grant which
the Sultan had been pleased to make to one
or two Englishmen only should be extended
to all English traders,30 and that in return
Elizabeth would grant equal liberties to the
subjects of the Sultan. This letter was
carried to Constantinople, where Harborne
then was,31 by the good ship the Prudence
27 Cf. V. S. P. VIII. Introduction, p. 43.
28 Hakluyt V. p. 169 gives this letter in full. It is
dated March 15, 1579. Cf. also Appendix VIII. No. 1
(page 239).
29 Hakluyt V. p. 171. It is dated Oct. 20, 1579.
30 Cf. S. P. D. Eliz. vol. 151, No. 33.
31 Cf. Elizabeth’s letter as quoted by Hakluyt V. p.
172 : Guilielmo Harborno in Imperial! Celsitudins ves-
trae civitate Constantinopoli commorante. ” Mr. Horatio
Brown in his Introduction to vol. 8 of V. S. P. (p. 30)