APPENDIX.

clxxv

faremo proccdcre contro li delinquent! non solo alle penedi ribellione, e disubbidienza, ma ancora alia restituzionede’ denari, ed interessi ed altre arbitrarie. In cujns rcifidem etc. Datum Melittc, 15 Septembris, Anni 1568.

Num. CCXXII.

Too long!

Num. CCXXIII.

Too long ! Besides, my MS. has been lost, by no fault ofmine.

Num. CCXXIY.

Ex Cod. Dipl. Geros., ii., Num. ccl.

“ There is no Gocl, hut God, and Mahomet is the Pro-phet of God ”

Like a heading in large Vermillion letters.

After which comes the seal, round which are thesewords inscribed,—

“ Letter of the King Shah-Abbas, Slave of God, King ofHis Kingdom of Persia .” And finally, is written ingold, “To the Venerable Highness of the G. Master.”

. . . . . For which thing we have

destined for our Ambassador, Count Don Robert Sherlei,a person of great valour and judgment, in whom we haveparticular confidence, for his great fidelity to that mighty