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THE LEVANT COMPANY
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ing. In 1590, in reviewing their five years’
activities the Company state 6 that they had
employed nineteen ships during the time
they had held their charter ; that these ships
had made twenty-seven voyages and had
employed 787 men in them ; while in customs
they had paid £11,359 6s.
[i.e. bring back] oils, Indigo, raw silk, spices, drugs,
currants, wines of Candia, cotton wool and yarn, gro-
grams, chamblotte, carpets, allum, caules, aniseed,
brimstone and divers other things.”
Cf. also S. P. D. Eliz. vol. 233, No. 13 : “ The com-
modities we carry thither are kerseys of all sorts,
coloured cloths of all sorts and colours, tin in bars,
wrought pewter, black cony skins. The commodities we
return are all kinds of spices, as Indigo blues, raw silk,
allum, apothecary drugs of all kinds, cotton wool and
yarn, cotton cloth—blue and white ; galls, currants,
oils, grograynes, chamblette, anniseed, white soap, worm
seed, goat skins, carpets, quilts and divers other things.”
[Grogram or grograyn was a kind of coarse stuff
made of silk and mohair. Chamblette was a stuff mixed
with camel’s hair.]
Cf. also two entries in V. S. P. vol. 8. No. 267 (March
29, 1585) gives an extract from the Report of the Vene-
tian ambassador in Constantinople : “ Four days ago
an English ship arrived with a cargo of cloth, tin and
other goods. The Turks were glad, for the city is
almost without cloth for clothing.” V. S. P. vol. 8. No.
329 (March 17,1586) : “ Some days ago an English ship
entered this port ; she has a little cloth and tin.”
6 S. P. D. Elizabeth, vol. 233, No. 13.
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ing. In 1590, in reviewing their five years’
activities the Company state 6 that they had
employed nineteen ships during the time
they had held their charter ; that these ships
had made twenty-seven voyages and had
employed 787 men in them ; while in customs
they had paid £11,359 6s.
[i.e. bring back] oils, Indigo, raw silk, spices, drugs,
currants, wines of Candia, cotton wool and yarn, gro-
grams, chamblotte, carpets, allum, caules, aniseed,
brimstone and divers other things.”
Cf. also S. P. D. Eliz. vol. 233, No. 13 : “ The com-
modities we carry thither are kerseys of all sorts,
coloured cloths of all sorts and colours, tin in bars,
wrought pewter, black cony skins. The commodities we
return are all kinds of spices, as Indigo blues, raw silk,
allum, apothecary drugs of all kinds, cotton wool and
yarn, cotton cloth—blue and white ; galls, currants,
oils, grograynes, chamblette, anniseed, white soap, worm
seed, goat skins, carpets, quilts and divers other things.”
[Grogram or grograyn was a kind of coarse stuff
made of silk and mohair. Chamblette was a stuff mixed
with camel’s hair.]
Cf. also two entries in V. S. P. vol. 8. No. 267 (March
29, 1585) gives an extract from the Report of the Vene-
tian ambassador in Constantinople : “ Four days ago
an English ship arrived with a cargo of cloth, tin and
other goods. The Turks were glad, for the city is
almost without cloth for clothing.” V. S. P. vol. 8. No.
329 (March 17,1586) : “ Some days ago an English ship
entered this port ; she has a little cloth and tin.”
6 S. P. D. Elizabeth, vol. 233, No. 13.