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lord_n	earl_n	sir_n	suffolk_n	14,527	5	12.6588	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08258	The three English brothers Sir Thomas Sherley his trauels, vvith his three yeares imprisonment in Turkie: his inlargement by his Maiesties letters to the great Turke: and lastly, his safe returne into England this present yeare, 1607. Sir Anthony Sherley his embassage to the Christian princes. Master Robert Sherley his wars against the Turkes, with his marriage to the Emperour of Persia his neece.	Nixon, Anthony.	1607 (1607)	STC 18592; ESTC S110177	34,437	82

THE THREE ENGLISH BROTHERS Sir Thomas Sherley his Trauels vvith his three yeares imprisonment in Turkie his Inlargement by his Maiesties Letters to the great Turke and lastly his safe returne into England this present yeare 1607. Sir Anthony Sherley his Embassage to the Christian Princes Master Robert Sherley his wars against the Turkes with his marriage to the Emperour of Persia his Neece LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Iohn Hodgets in Paules Church yard 1607. TO THE RIGHT HOnourable Thomas Lord Howard Earle of Suffolke Lord Chamberlaine of his Maiesties houshould and one of his Highnes most honorable Priuie Councell WEaknes Right honorable hath need of helpe and supportance as wel in Politick as naturall bodies the like in studies labors of the mind Caesars commentaries needed no Apologie because his power was able to defend thē Nor his Triū verborū literae to the Roman Senate Veni vidi vici craue any other inlargement because his fame went stil before him to dilate his acts In priuate inferior studies that want countenance in themselues the extensiue power of greatnes and authoritie giues strength and encouragement to intensiue weaknesse when our indeauours though vnworthy of acceptation are suffered in their minoritie and insufficient age to grow vp and prosper in the defensiue bulwarke of protection against the stormes of enuious and calumnious tongues that by continuāce through vse and practise they may happely afterwards proue worthie of regard In the want therefore of mine own worth I haue presumed to shield my selfe vnder your worthines and finding cause to distrust mine own strēgth I haue aduentured to shrowd my selfe vnder your power Humbly desiring your Honour so farre to grace these my labours as to vouchsafe them a passage vnder your Patronage that therby though happily they haue nothing in them to deserue your priuate reading and account they may yet the better by your countenance finde admittance and respect to publique view For I must confesse they come much short as well of the worthynes of the Subiect that they treat of as also of your regard and estimation If therefore out of your generall respect to all your Lordshippe shall bee pleased to vouchsafe mee this particular fauour I shall hereafter admit all times and pretermit no occasions to manifest my dutie Euer remaining Your Honors in all seruice Anthony Nixon Sir Thomas Sherley his Trauailes together with his three yeares imprisonment in Turkie his Inlargement by his Maiesties Letters to the great Turke and lastly his safe returne into England this present yeare 1607. IT is a naturall qualitie both customarie commendable in all Countries to enlarge their fames by divulging the memorable Actes of such worthy personages whose Noble Spirits showne by their honourable attempts and atchieuements haue drawne other Nations into admiration of their valours and emulation of their vertues It were then a fault vnpardonable in vs of the English Nation whose acts and high attempts haue not giuen place to any people to burie in obliuion the vertues of those our country Men whose noble deedes deserue for euer to liue vpon the tongues of men with honorable mention Amongst whom the Three Heroes of our Time the hopefull issue of a happy father haue so glorified their names by their honourable Actes and hostile imployments against the common Enemie of Christendome that honour by them hath added to her glory and Enuy lost the sting of her Detraction And here am I drawne into a deepe meditation of the Minde of man how infinite it is in opinion and weening and vnquiet by Nature that where it is once set vpon the desire of honour nothing can stay or limite her aduentures But as the Clowds are harried by the windes from one part of the Hemispheare to the other so the Body is carried by the Minde euen through the world by land by sea with toyle and danger making it to suffer hunger watching and cold where at home it might slepe with peace and feed with plenty The manifestation wherof is knowne in the tedious Trauailes dangerous Aduentures of these three excellent spirits that hauing no other Motiues but the honourable desire and pursuit of Glorie which indeedeis the Spurre to euery noble minde haue iustly by their deserts obtained her both for themselues and for their Countrie whose fame and renown being by them made known me thinkes they were vnkindly vsed by vs to be made strangers here at home Hauing therefore receiued some particulars of their trauels and their Occurrents in them though I must confesse I am but lame as well in the instructions of their Aduentures as also in mine owne worth to display their worthinesse I haue neuertherlesse attempted though not to satisfie yet in some sort to make knowne to expectation which euer gapes after Nouelties their variable fortunes and honorable imploiments in strange Countries and vnder great Kings so farre as my knowledge of them and hability in my selfe will giue me leaue And first to begin with Sir Thomas Sherley the yonger who as hee was eldest by the Fortune of his birth so is he not inferiour to the rest in the commendable parts and honorable qualities of his minde though happily not so succesfull in his Trauels as his other brethren Hee began his last voyage in Anno 1602. who hauing long time kept the Seas vnprosperously and with vnequall fortune to his hopes and deseruings at length landed in Italie and was for a time highly respected in the Duke of Florence his Court where hee carried himselfe in that honourable port as became both a Souldier and a Courtier in all those commendable qualities that serue both for vse and ornament But to stay there long was no life for him the State beeing setled and no imployments forraine or domesticall fit for the leuell of his thoughts and purposes which ayming at a higher proiect grew soone weary of the pleasures of Italie Which the Duke perceiuing and knowing the wants that his long vayage by Sea had before bronght vpon him did honourably furnish him with such necessaries as for his purposed imployments did fully satisfie his longing expectation Beeing thus once more at Sea full of hope and courage he lay houering too and againe a long time vpon the Straites of Giblater in a cōtinuall expectation of some purchase or other to satisfie the desires both of himselfe and of his company In whom of late hee found a strange alteration both in their countenances and behauiours towards him sauouring of Discontent the dāgerous disturber of any setled state whether it was deriued from a despaire they had of the successe of the voyage or from a desire of returne to England I know not but afterwards it turned to a mutinous reuolt He first perswaded them with faire words of hope and comfort and afterwards for the time appeased them by applying himselfe in many things to their humors but as fire cannot be hidde whose smoke betraies it so this