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Show Cuin an e TarTaryY ---- 3 that it was impoflible, forthis time (‘at leaft without vaft Bribes) becaufe thof Reguli of Canton had corrupted the great Mandorines, and opened all the door HiF mifdemeanour Was dccrcc. (hould rep ‘} i R Hi } A 2 S Y it I :{ ‘ti } ‘y! ' A Confidering the weightinefs of the matter, and the liberty which your Lordfhips gave us in your Letters, to undertake for any fum of Money that we foun neceflary to effet this bufinefs, with our engagement that the City of Macco thould make good the payment, we promifed him the whole fum : and uporfth rehearfed conditions, before the Petition thould be delivered (according to thi 3 i k 1e § L R Countrey Cufiom) this Mafter of Requeft would fee the whole fum of Mone ready, and alfo receive fome certain Tayes before hand, as a pledge and earneft o the whole ; which being impoflible for usto do, he even excafed himfelf as th former had done, and fo forfook us , but we infifted, and inftead of ready Mone which we wanted,produced two rich vefts which the Emperour had beftowed upo \ wa 4 ) | ; |1 i ‘ Bl ‘ l us, and we had carefully preferved them by us, but never worn'becaufe-it wasth Emperours gift to us, and that they were unfutable to our Povertyand Religiou . i ] ‘ |"* ‘ W 1 i ptomes of a great fatisfaction 5 and really great was our content, becaufe we no {eemed to have laid a fure foundation for that work we fo earneftly defired t A NK 9 i S i | 1 RL 1 him to decline our bufinefs," alledging nor onl receive or wear them, but alfo that it wasuaworVefts which had been prefented by the Emperour fome other perfon for our bufinefs, which en fuc fo pe an we an thi i No er Fin l lit hi B S e et R e o e A L 1 k J time USR e tc wr fo efe Chi tho o ion ofi dif th wit wonderthat is acquainte ' R i | il .lfi fini(b. "When lo this fame Mandorine, we know not by what means came to dilcover,or at leaft to fufpe&,the Veft to have been the Emperours gift unto us, whic 4 fix hundre ‘Habit : thefe he accepted for 150 Tayesof the fum agreed on, with all the Sym ‘Tayes more, he would be bound they fhould be granted , and in cafe they wer man we therefore left, and applyed our felves to another, who plainly told us that if we would give him two hundred Tayes,he would plight his Faith to delive our Petition with whatever Articles we fhould infere, only he would not eblig was an Argument {ufficienc fo chat he was not fo barbarous t thy inws to offer to commit th and therefore we might go loo terms hie would not touch wit i to Pekin g = gers 1O Cour I »d Memoria 1 | H derefore { ST cto arle onl g, they wer ly receptio g, of Seprew h they accor ed with th rce with th ' T atteqpt, an | 1 T )' , slory of God i drees, thatI fhould thruft my felf into {o much difficulty and danger for chem ; thi noty he would repay the whole eight hundred Tayes Now I have receive great reward from him, in whofe name the Petition runs no-injury from the Hollanders to be avenged of, nor any gratuity from thofe Pa give hi A ‘ilbrdfbips peo our King ou {ame office with mé, do exhibit, proceeds always from thefe two reafons; eithe that we may avenge our {elves of our Enemies, or that we are hired to it by fom - {elf the Emperour fhould approve them; but if we woul T ricvousand mtc;l'uhm, and ma St he powerfy) i(‘fi?f\tmo 55 and of 3 fuy S \Fne mentioned, thus to excufe himfelf 5 Sir, if thofe Padrees who are ftrangers beignorant, yet you who are Natives, muft be acquainted with the manner of doin bufinelsin this Court, to wit, that whofe Petitions either I, or any otherinth only meddl " many year of the whole Empire, and particularly with the exorbitancies of Mandorines he at our firft Addrefs readily undertook the bufinefs, and feemed to promife him{elf an bappy iffue of it; hereupon we delivered him ¢ertain Heads to fram a Petition, of which he accepted ; butafew days being paft, when we though he had made fome progrelsin the bufinefs, he comesto that Chriftian before an of no contemptible condition and authority, we firft compaffed to {peak wit one of thele Mandorines, which the Chinefe call Colli, and we may ftile the Mafte 52) ndwi fo much) did iavite, yea, compel usto an undertaking, the accomplifhment o which feemed impoflible ro all Men By the medtation of a certain Chrifti the Emperour withth i Notwichitanding all this, zeal to the Publick good, the progrefs of Chriftianity the love of our Countrey, and efpecially of this noble City (to which we allo of Requefts, whole office i1s to acquain ! of the Court unto them |