Which I
Receive, Not As From A Stranger, But As From Your Majesty, Whom I Esteem
As Myself, Desiring The
Continuance of friendship with your highness:
And that it may consist with your good pleasure to send your subjects to
Any part or port of my dominions, where they shall be most heartily
welcome, applauding much their worthiness in the admirable knowledge of
navigation, as having with much facility discovered a country so remote,
not being amazed by the distance of so mighty a gulf, nor the greatness
of such infinite clouds and storms, from prosecuting the honourable
enterprises of discovery and merchandising, in which they shall find me
to encourage them as they desire. By your said subject, I return to your
majesty a small token of my love, desiring you to accept the same as
from one who much rejoices in your friendship. And, whereas your
majesty's subjects have desired certain privileges for trade and the
settlement of a factory in my dominions, I have not only granted what
they desired, but have confirmed the same to them under my broad seal,
for the better establishment thereof. Given from my castle of Surunga,
this fourth day of the ninth month, in the eighteenth year of our reign,
according to our computation; resting your majesty's friend, the highest
commander in the kingdom of Japan.
Subscribed
Minna Muttono[24]. Yei. Ye. Yeas.
[Footnote 24: In the copy of the privileges, Purchas gives this name
Mottono while the editor of Astley's Collection has altered it to
Monttono.
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