Note 289 — Chapter XX · A LULL IN THE STORM

“The Humble Addresse of the Company” “to the King’s most Excelent Majestie and to the Lords of his most Honourable Privy Councill,” dated Oct. 27, 1680, Register (S.P. Levant Company, 145), p. 81. The same Register contains the Company’s and the King’s Instructions to Chandos, the latter dated Dec. 29; the former Jan. 28 (pp. 82-95); copies of the two sets of Credentials, dated Dec. 29 (pp. 95-101); also a supplementary letter from Charles to the Sultan, dated Jan. 24, (pp. 103-4) dealing exclusively with the Pasha of Tunis affair, and demanding “the said Pasha and his false witnesses to be brought to condigne punishment.” In his sterner Letter of Credence, Charles desires the Grand Signor “to make enquiry” into, “besides many other insupportable greivances,” the taking away “of those Imperiall Capitulations which are the onely security of their Trade” and “to doe Justice upon all such as shall be found culpable therein.”