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APPENDIX.

Catholic king, who has more subjects than the stars ofthe Heavens .... so the above

Count will present you these, and assure you of our stablefrindship, connected with a strong claim. And we regretthat we are a long time without your letters. In all yourwants recur to us, and command us freely, for it willalways give us extreme pleasure and content. May theLord be with your Highness, Written in the kingdomof Persia, the month of September, in the year of thedeath of Mahomet, 1024.

Another Persian letter is assuring the G. Master thathe, (the King,) had given orders for the good treatment ofChristian slaves.

It is extremely fine, all golden, with many-coloureddecorations, and ends by declarations of great attachmentand reciprocal love :—

“ Write to us then, ask us frankly and clearly for everything you want, and let your letters always be candid, andfull of loyalty.

“ We end our present Imperial letter, written in themonth of Regeb, of the year 1108.” An annular seal atfoot, and it ends with,

“ There is but one God, truly King and evident!”Num. CCXXV.

Ex Cod. Dipl. Geros., ii., Num. cclxxvi. p. 289 .

Lettera del G. Maestro e Consiglio al Re di Francia.

Tonte ceste Religion se ressent grandement obligee a