ABSTRACT
In 1621 Sir Thomas Roe succeeded Sir John Eyre 'in his Embassy to the Ottoman Porte', as the title of his published correspondence puts it.1 Thomas Smith describes Roe 'as a Gentleman of excellent parts, and of great honour and integrity, and one who served the interests of his Prince and country in Turkey with great courage and fidelity, and with an agreeable success; before whose times', he adds,
The Patriarch of Constantinople, Kyrillos Loukaris, had already" benefited from his acquaintance with Roe's predecessors, Through one of them, Sir Paul Pindar, he had corresponded with the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbot, who then, with the approval of King James I,
1 The Negotiations of Sir Thomas Roe in his Embassy to the Ottoman Parte (London, 1740). 2 Thomas Smith, An Account of the Greek Church (London, 1680), 252.
