The Public Record Office Museum

Date:
1908
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/49
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Public Record Office Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE K. 110. Letter from Amurath III. Sultan of Turkey, to Queen Elizabeth, ‘‘refulgent with splendour and glory, most sapient princess of the magnanimous followers of Jesus, most serene controller of all the affairs and business of the people and family of the Nazarenes, most grateful rain-cloud, sweetest fount of splendour and honour,” &e. Promising that Wiliam Harrabroun (Harborne), whom she has sent to the Porte with a most friendly letter, shall enjoy all such privileges there as have been granted to the French ambassador.—Dated at Constantinople at the end of Rabi II. in the year of Mohammed 991. Hndorsed ;—1583. Turkish. Monogram in gold. 111. Letter from Sidi Mohammed, Emperor of Morocco, to George III. Rex. ‘‘ Perfect peace and harmony now reign betweenus . . . . We have complied with your Governor of Gibraltar’s strong intercessions in favour of Consul Popham We desire you to send us an engineer, with ten workmen in marble, all clever in their profession.”—Dated in the year of the Hegira 1180 (September 1766). Arabic. Illuminated. 112. Letter from the Governor of the Red Sea to [Charles II.] ‘‘ the great monarch, the chief, the lofty, the distinguished, the head of the Nazarene peoples and the grandest of their imperial kings, monarch of the Angriz (Knglish).” Concerning Captain Joseph Hinemans and John Jones, who came to Mocha with merchandise and ‘‘ wishing for a further supply of coffee- berries.” The King’s letter has been communicated to the D
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