James I. Naval Expeditions, &c of the English, Book III,

604. " may urge out of the very first Article" of the said Contract, which I have" caused to be written out for you," from an authentic Copy, to that Ef-“ sect ; This is all which I will fay un-“ to you about the Merchants Affairs,wherein the greatest Difficulty, which" I can apprehend, is, that you will" be troubled with false and corrupted" Witnesses, an ordinary Trade and“ Occupation among the Greeks and" Sicilians. Now for my own Purpo-“ ses, you shall understand, that I have" gotten Knowledge of the Practices ofce Parsons, the Jesuit, in the Kingdom“ of Naples, during the Time of his" being there, whence he is newly re-" turned to Rome ; These Practices do" partly consist in certain Devilish Re-" ports, which he hath there dissemina-tc ted against the Person of His Majesty,wherewith he hath, in some Sort," possessed the Vice-roy, by his Secre-tc tary, who hath great Power over his" Master, and partly in the Purchasing" of new Instruments to himself there,whereof their principal is one Wale“ an Irijh-man, whom he hath, by the({ Means of the said Secretary placed" in a Kind of Consulship over such" Engli/h Merchants as shall arrive in" that Port, after he had managed a" Marriage between the said Wale and" one Chancellor's Daughter, an Englijh(e Man there resident. Now for those" Reports, altho’ the Speech of so un-* e clean a Mouth, and Conscience can" no Way blemisti His Majesty's Ho-tf nour, yet there will be taken. somef ‘ Course hereafter to obviate such In-te conveniences, as might rife from it.

" But for the latter Point, touching" Wale, the Irijh-man, being a Thing“ that doth directly cross a Prerogative" of my Charge here, from whom on-" ly His Majesty will take Information“ of the Incumbrances and Grievances<c of his Subjects, and of all other Ac-" cidents, in all Harbours and States in" Italy, and hath, to that Purpose, ex-" pressed his Will unto the Merchants,tc his Subjects, at Pisa and Leghorn, and" by them to all other, as you fee in" the Copy which you carry with you,

" of my Lord Secretary 's Letters,datedte the twenty-third of January last ; Ifay this Subordination of the saidSe Wale at Naples , without my Consent,

" being a base and unsupportable In- 1604," trusion, you shall deal in it, as from" me, very roundly, calling together" such Englijh Merchants, as you shallts find there, and acquainting them,

" with His Majesty’s Will, out of the" aforesaid Copy of my Lord Secretary's" Letters, by the Virtue of which you" shall disauthorise and discredit the" said Wale, from dealing any farther" as Consul, or otherwise, for them.

“ This done, I would have you address" yourself there, to one Captain Nlek-" ander Hebrun, a Scotch Gentleman" (of whose Loyalty unto His Majesty" I have, as you shall tell him, very" especial Proof) desiring him to deli-" berate with you, upon Choice of" some other fit Person there, for the" Assistance of our Merchants, in such" Cases as require Intercession with the" Vice-roy, and for the Information of" me, from Time to Time, in their" Grievances. These Points you are to“ negociate in your Passage towards" MeJJtna, and presently upon it to ad-" vertise me, what you have done, and" how you find the said Wale to have" demeaned himself, that so, upon" the Advertisement, and farther Con-ce sideration of Circumstances, I may" write Letters, thither , either to" the Vice-roy himself, or any other,

" as you and the said Captain ffi'a 11 hold" fit, to meet you there against your" Return, which in your Absence'shall" be addressed to the said Captains" Hand. If you find the said Captain" so vacant, that he may undertake" the Causes of his Countrymen, you" shall fay that you had Charge to offertr it him, before any other. Lastly, infe ' the whole Course, I would have youobserve, as much as may be, the Na-sure of the Places by which you pass,

<r and all Occurrences, fob the Informa-" tion of me, and Your own Jhdg-“ ment.

jliid so Gon bless you.

We find in Purchas several Relationsof Voyages, in this and the followingYears, to Cherie-lHand-, But as theycontain little or nothing' more than anAccount of the Number of Morses andBears they killed, I shall, for Brevity’sfake, omit them-

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