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APPENDIX VIII
MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS
I 1
§ i. It may please your honours [to be]2
advertized that William Harbronne being in
Constantinople in 1578 procured of the Grand
Signior for Mr. Edward Osborne, of London,
aiderman Richard Stapers, merchant, and
himself (at our great charge) a peculiar license
of free travel into all places of his dominions,
as by the same appeareth, which by the said
Grand Signior his letters signified to her
majesty, and he desired the same might be
general to all other her subjects, and by the
like letters required Mustafa Beg his chief
1 In Turkey Papers, Bundle I. There is no date.
But the Sultan’s charter is mentioned. This was
granted in 1580, and Harborne’s commission as ambassa-
dor was dated 1582. The document falls between these
two dates.
2 There is a piece here torn away. I suggest “ to
be ” as the words missing.
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MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS
I 1
§ i. It may please your honours [to be]2
advertized that William Harbronne being in
Constantinople in 1578 procured of the Grand
Signior for Mr. Edward Osborne, of London,
aiderman Richard Stapers, merchant, and
himself (at our great charge) a peculiar license
of free travel into all places of his dominions,
as by the same appeareth, which by the said
Grand Signior his letters signified to her
majesty, and he desired the same might be
general to all other her subjects, and by the
like letters required Mustafa Beg his chief
1 In Turkey Papers, Bundle I. There is no date.
But the Sultan’s charter is mentioned. This was
granted in 1580, and Harborne’s commission as ambassa-
dor was dated 1582. The document falls between these
two dates.
2 There is a piece here torn away. I suggest “ to
be ” as the words missing.
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