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THE LEVANT COMPANY 49
that various English commodities were taken
to foreign markets and English shipping
thereby increased. And if the trade was to
be continued, there must be an Ambassador
and Consuls in the Levant, which meant great
expenditure. Hence, what with the new tax
at home, and the ill-treatment of English
traders at the hands of the Venetians,23
unless relief were granted them, they would
be forced to leave the trade.
Something was done. They were dis-
charged of a debt of £5,00°,24 which they
owed to the King, upon their bonds to pay
the impositions which had been fixed.25
But still the traders were dissatisfied.
23 Cf. S. P. D. James I. vol. 6, No. 60.
The ill-treatment of the English at the hands of the
Venetians was a constant theme of complaint, and the
English traders sought to make it quite clear how much
worse off they were, by compiling tables of expenditure.
For one or two such calculations, see Appendix VIII,
No. 5, page 262.
24 S. P. D. James I. vol. 20, No. 25.
25 S. P. D. James I. Docquets, No. 7, under date
November 10, 1604. The extent of the debt is not
given here, but it is quite clear from S. P. D. James I.
vol. 20, No. 25, also from vol. 10, No. 27. Later on
it appears that the king asked for a repayment of this
remission. Cf. S. P. D. James I. vol. 20, No. 25.
that various English commodities were taken
to foreign markets and English shipping
thereby increased. And if the trade was to
be continued, there must be an Ambassador
and Consuls in the Levant, which meant great
expenditure. Hence, what with the new tax
at home, and the ill-treatment of English
traders at the hands of the Venetians,23
unless relief were granted them, they would
be forced to leave the trade.
Something was done. They were dis-
charged of a debt of £5,00°,24 which they
owed to the King, upon their bonds to pay
the impositions which had been fixed.25
But still the traders were dissatisfied.
23 Cf. S. P. D. James I. vol. 6, No. 60.
The ill-treatment of the English at the hands of the
Venetians was a constant theme of complaint, and the
English traders sought to make it quite clear how much
worse off they were, by compiling tables of expenditure.
For one or two such calculations, see Appendix VIII,
No. 5, page 262.
24 S. P. D. James I. vol. 20, No. 25.
25 S. P. D. James I. Docquets, No. 7, under date
November 10, 1604. The extent of the debt is not
given here, but it is quite clear from S. P. D. James I.
vol. 20, No. 25, also from vol. 10, No. 27. Later on
it appears that the king asked for a repayment of this
remission. Cf. S. P. D. James I. vol. 20, No. 25.