Hereunto adding my insufficiency and inability for such honourable Employment, being subject to many Infirmities and Diseases of Body.
To this he replied, Cannot you read and write English?
Servile Labour the King requireth not of you.

I answered, When I came ashore I was but young, and that which then I knew, now I had forgot for want of practice, having had neither ink nor paper ever since I came ashore.

I urged moreover, That it was contrary to the Custome and Practice of all Kings and Princes upon the Earth to keep and detain men that came into their Countreys upon such peaceable accounts as we did; much less to compel them to serve them beyond their power and ability.
[He is sent to another great Officer.] At my first coming before him he looked very pleasingly, and spake with a smiling countenance to me: but now his smiles were turned into frowns, and his pleasing looks into bended brows, and in rough Language, he bad me be gone and tell my tale to the Adigar.

Which immediatly I did; but he being busie did not much regard me, and I was glad of it, that I might absent the Court.

But I durst not go out of the City.