Editing Murad III (section)

===English pact===
Numerous envoys and letters were exchanged between [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]] and Sultan Murad III.<ref name=kupperman>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/jamestownproject00kupp |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/jamestownproject00kupp/page/39 39] |title=The Jamestown project |year=2007 |publisher=Harvard University Press |author=Karen Ordahl Kupperman |isbn=9780674024748 |author-link=Karen Ordahl Kupperman }}</ref>{{rp|39}} In one correspondence, Murad entertained the notion that Islam and [[Protestantism]] had "much more in common than either did with [[Roman Catholicism]], as both rejected the worship of idols", and argued for an alliance between England and the Ottoman Empire.<ref name=kupperman />{{rp|40}} To the dismay of Catholic Europe, England exported tin and lead (for cannon-casting) and ammunition to the Ottoman Empire, and Elizabeth seriously discussed joint military operations with Murad III during the outbreak of war with Spain in 1585, as [[Francis Walsingham]] was lobbying for a direct Ottoman military involvement against the common Spanish enemy.<ref name=kupperman />{{rp|41}}  This diplomacy would be continued under Murad's successor [[Mehmed III]], by both the sultan and [[Safiye Sultan (mother of Mehmed III)|Safiye Sultan]] alike.