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Tartars, and you wished me also that I should not feare to write long letters, I haue done as your maiestie inioined me: yet with feare and reuerence, because I want wordes and eloquence sufficient to write vnto so great a maiestie.
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Here first did I see worshippers of idoles, concerning whom, bee it knowen vnto your maiestie, that there be many sects of them in the East countries.
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Of him be giuen al benefices, and spiritual promocions, which prerogatiue the Pope hath giuen, to the maiestie of kinges.
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Nexte vnto the kinges maiestie, the communaltie bare the swaye.
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The matrons make for themselues most beautiful carts, which I am not able to describe vnto your maiestie but by pictures onlie: for I would right willingly haue painted all things for you, had my skill bin ought in that art.
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And the housebande men beside this rente, yelde vnto the Kynges maiestie, a fiueth of their fruictes yerely.
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Concerning the situation whereof, your maiestie shall vnderstand more about the end of this Treatise: for I trauailed in my returne by the very same place.
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Ireland, which he yet holdeth, from whence within one yere he was sent for, and sent Generall of the English forces which her maiestie then lent to the Low countries, which he held til the erle of Leicesters going ouer.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Whose steps many hundreds following sithins haue made themselues men of good esteeme, and fit for the seruice of her sacrid maiestie.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Imperiall maiestie to know what he requested and desired that they might talke together, and how the great master had receiued his letter.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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