[311] See [Appendix XVI].
APPENDIX I
[Ellis Papers at the British Museum: Add. MSS. 28937, pp. 167-9.]
Instructions for our Trusty and wellbeloved Servant Sr John Finch Knt going in Quality of our Ambr. to reside at ye Court of ye Grand Seigr. Given at ye Court at Whitehall the ________ 1672.
1. You shall embarque your self upon ye ship designed to carry you, and dispose thereof according to ye instruc͡ons of our most Dear Brother the Duke of York, our High Admll. of England.
2. Being arriued at Constantinople you shall in ye first place informe your self from Mr Newman Secretary to ye late Ambr. Sr Daniel Haruy, and by him left in the care of our affaires, and of our subjects in that Court, in what state things now are, and by him and such others as are best able to informe you, to instruct your self in the manner of making your addresses with our credentialls to the Grand Seignior and the Grand Vizier according to the accustomed stiles used by those inuested with your character, remembering allways not to suffer it to be prejudiced or uiolated in any circumstance either by that Court, or any forreign Ministers residing there.
3. In your Addresses to ye Grand Seigr. and Vizier you shall expresse the Great Value wee haue for their persons, and satisfac͡on in the obseruance of ye peace & good correspondence these towards our Subjects in their Trade & Com͡erce, wch is so beneficiall to those parts aboue any other nac͡on, and particularly those made with Algiers, Tunis, Tripoly, which wee desire they would continue to protect & recom͡end, assuring them wee shall seuerely punish any of our subjects, that shall in any degree uiolate the same; or if in your passage, or upon the place you shall learne any infringemts. haue been made on either side, you shall as occasion shall furnish you with matter for it, frame excuses or complaints.
4. In all ye time of yr Residence there you must be carefull to maintain a good correspondence with all ye Ambrs. and Agents of Christian Princes, especially those yt shall be in a nearer degree of alliance and amity with us, But not forgetting it euen towards those that are lesse so: to protect their persons, and render your self usefull to them with all good offices, employing effectually likewise towards the good of all Christians in generall of what Degree, Quality, Sect, or opinion so euer they be, giuing the preference therein still to those of our own profession in Religion in procuring them Justice & Fauour in all things.