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THE EARLY HISTORY OF
conduct and gave him permission to trade
in Turkey on an equal footing with the
French and the Venetians 22 that is to say,
he was to pay the ordinary toll and no other.
But the case of Jenkinson was apparently
an isolated one, for we hear of no other
English merchants till 1575 or thereabouts.
Indeed, Hakluyt asserts23 that after 1550
the Levant trade declined, was “ in manner
quite forgotten ” until Sir Edward Osborne
and Richard Staper made an attempt to
revive it.24
22 Mr. Williamson (“ The. Foreign Commerce of Eng-
land under the Tudors ” p. 58) says that Jenkinson
“ obtained leave to trade to the market of Aleppo upon
the same terms as those enjoyed by the French and
the Genoese.” There are two errors here. (1) The
privileges say that Jenkinson might trade “ wheresoever
it shall seem good unto him —anywhere in Turkey
therefore ; and (2) his liberties were to be such as were
enjoyed by the French and the Venetians—not the
Genoese. 23 V. p. 168.
24 The anonymous writer in the Account of Levant
Company (see above, p. 4, note 10) is not very sull on
the earlier history of the Company. Nor is Mr. Hewins
in his English Trade and Finance, chiefly in the Seven-
teenth Century, nor the writer of the article “ Turkey
Company ” in Mr. Palgrave’s Dictionary of Political
Economy. Both Mr. Hewins and the writer of the
article appear to have followed the author of the Ac-
count, etc.
THE EARLY HISTORY OF
conduct and gave him permission to trade
in Turkey on an equal footing with the
French and the Venetians 22 that is to say,
he was to pay the ordinary toll and no other.
But the case of Jenkinson was apparently
an isolated one, for we hear of no other
English merchants till 1575 or thereabouts.
Indeed, Hakluyt asserts23 that after 1550
the Levant trade declined, was “ in manner
quite forgotten ” until Sir Edward Osborne
and Richard Staper made an attempt to
revive it.24
22 Mr. Williamson (“ The. Foreign Commerce of Eng-
land under the Tudors ” p. 58) says that Jenkinson
“ obtained leave to trade to the market of Aleppo upon
the same terms as those enjoyed by the French and
the Genoese.” There are two errors here. (1) The
privileges say that Jenkinson might trade “ wheresoever
it shall seem good unto him —anywhere in Turkey
therefore ; and (2) his liberties were to be such as were
enjoyed by the French and the Venetians—not the
Genoese. 23 V. p. 168.
24 The anonymous writer in the Account of Levant
Company (see above, p. 4, note 10) is not very sull on
the earlier history of the Company. Nor is Mr. Hewins
in his English Trade and Finance, chiefly in the Seven-
teenth Century, nor the writer of the article “ Turkey
Company ” in Mr. Palgrave’s Dictionary of Political
Economy. Both Mr. Hewins and the writer of the
article appear to have followed the author of the Ac-
count, etc.