Mr Thomas Coriat to his friends in England sendeth greeting from Agra the capitall city of the dominion of the great Mogoll in the Easterne India, the last of October, 1616. Thy trauels and thy glory to ennamell, with fame we mount thee on the lofty cammell; ... .

The English of it is this.

LOrd aProtector of the world all haile to you▪ I am a poore Traueller and world seer, which am come hither from a farre country, namely England, which auncient Historians thought to haue been scituated in the farthest bounds of the West, and which is the Queene of all the Ilands in the world. The cause of my comming hither is for foure respects. First to see the blessed face of your Maiesty, whose wonderfull fame hath resounded ouer all Europe & the Mahometan Countries. Whē I heard of the fame of your Maiesty, I hastened hi∣ther with speed and trauelled very cherefully to see your glorious Court. Secondly, to see your Maies∣ties Elephants, which kind of beasts I haue not seen in any other country. Thirdly, to see your famous Riuer Ganges, which is the Captaine of all the Ri∣euer of the world. The fourth is this, to intreat your Maiesty that you would vouchsafe to grant mee your gracious Passe that I may trauell into the Country of Tartaria to the Citty of Samarcand, to visit the blessed Sepulcher of the Lord of the Cor∣ners (this is a title that is giuen to Tamberlaine in this Country in that Persian language, and wheras they call him the Lord of the Corners, by that they meane that he was Lord of the corners of the world, that is, the highest and supreme Monarch of the Vni∣uerse): whose fame by reason of his warres and vic∣tories,

is published ouer the whole world: perhaps he is not altogether so famous in his own Country of Tartaria, as in England. Moreouer, I haue a great desire to see the blessed Toombe of the Lord of the Corners for this cause; for that when I was at Con∣stantinople, I saw a notable old building in a pleasant garden neer the said City, where the Christian Em∣peror that was called Emanuell made a sumptuous great Banquet to the Lord of the Corners, after he had taken Sultan Batazet in a great battell that was fought neere the City of Bursia, where the Lord of the Corners bound Sultan Batazet in fetters of Gold, and put him in a cage of Iron. These 4 causes mo∣ued me to come out of my natiue Country thus farre, hauing trauelled a foote through Turky and Persia, so farre haue I traced the world into this Country, that my pilgrimage hath accomplished three thousand miles, wherin I haue sustained much labour and toile, the like wherof no mortall man in this World did euer performe to see the blessed face of your Maiesty since the first day that you were inaugurated in your glorious Monarchall throne.

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  This is the ordinary ti∣tle that is giuen him by all strangers