Elizabeth I

“ So that your Highnesse shall by very well served, and Spaniards, our enemies, who only, and none else of these regions, have frequented those your and the other kingdomes of the East, not suffering that the other nations should doe it; pretending themselves to be monarchs and absolute lords of all these kingdomes and provinces as their owne conquest and inheritance, as appeareth by their loftie title in their writings ”

“ ELIZABETH, by the grace of God, Queene of England, France, and Ireland, Defendresse of the Christian Faith ang Religion. To his great and mightie King of Achem, &c. in the Island of Sumatra, our living brothet. ”