THE KING OF TARNATA, TO THE KING OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, FRANCE AND IRELAND, &C.

Hearing of the good report of your Maiestie, by the comming of the great captain Francis Drake, in the time of my father, which was about some 30. yeeres past: by the which captaine, my predecessor did send a ring vnto the Queene of England, as a token of remembrance betweene vs: which if the aforesaide Drake had beene liuing, hee could haue informed your Maiestie of the great loue and friendship of either side: he in the behalfe of the Queene: my father for him and his successors. Since which time of the departure of the aforesaid captaine, we haue dayly expected his returne, my father liuing many yeeres after and dayly expecting his returne, and I after the death of my father haue liued in the same hope, till I was father of eleuen children: in which time I haue beene informed that the English were men of so bad disposition that they came not as peaceable merchants, but to dispossesse them of their countrey: which by the comming of the bearer hereof wee haue found to the contrarie, which greatly we reioyce at.