the onely cause, vpon letters that his brother wrote him from Aleppo.  God knoweth how we shall be delt withall in Goa, and therefore if you can procure our masters to send the king of Spaine his letters for our releasement, you should doe vs great good:  for they cannot with iustice put vs to death.  It may be that they will cut our throtes, or keepe vs long in prison:  Gods will be done.  All those commodities that I brought hither, had beene very well sold, if this trouble had not chanced.  You shall do well to send with all speed a messenger by land from Balsara to Aleppo, for to certifie of this mischance, although it cost thirtie or fortie crownes, for that we may be the sooner released, and I shalbe the better able to recouer this againe which is now like to be lost:  I pray you make my heartie commendations, &c. from out of the prison in Ormuz, this 21 of September, 1583.

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His second letter to the foresaid Master Iohn Eldred and William Shales.

The barke of the Iewes is arriued here two daies past, by whom I know you did write, but your letters are not like to come to my handes.  This bringer hath shewed me here very great courtesie, wherefore I pray you shew him what fauor you may.  About the middle of the next moneth I thinke we shall depart from hence, God be our guide.  I thinke Andrew will goe by land to Aleppo, wherein I pray you further him what you may:  but if he should not goe, then I pray you dispatch away a messenger with is much speede as possible you may.  I can say no more, but do for me as you would I should do for you in the like cause, and so with my very hearty commendations, &c.  From out of the prison in Ormuz, this 24 day of September, 1583.

Yours, Iohn Newberie.

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His third Letter to Maister Leonard Poore, written from Goa.

[Sidenote:  Michael Stropine an Italian accused our men to be spies.] My last I sent you was from Ormuz, whereby I certified you what had happened there vnto me, and the rest of my company, which was, that foure dayes after our arriuall there, we were all committed to prison, except one Italian which came with me from Aleppo, whom the Captaine never examined, onely demaunded what countryman he was, but I make account Michael Stropene, who accused vs, had informed the Captaine of him.  The first day we arriued there, this Stropene accused vs that we were spies sent from Don Antonio, besides diuers other lies:  nothwithstanding if we had beene of any other countrey then of England, we might freely haue traded with them.  And although we be Englishmen, I know no reason to the contrary, but that we may trade hither and thither as well as other nations, for all nations doe, and may come freely to Ormuz, as Frenchmen, Flemmings, Almains, Hungarians, Italians, Greekes, Armenians, Nazaranies, Turkes and Moores, Iewes and Gentiles, Persians, Moscouites, and there is no nation that they