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50 THE EARLY HISTORY OF
They reasserted26 that the trade could only
be carried on effectively when an ambassador
resided in Constantinople. Furthermore they
complained that the impositions made no
difference between Englishmen and foreigners,
so that it would be easy for the latter to drive
out the English from the trade. Especially
easy would this be for the Venetians, since the
English had to pay double impositions, once
here and once in Venice. And so the English
traders asked that strangers should be forced
to pay double impositions in England.
To all these points the King replied that
the trade was so extensive that it could
easily bear all taxation.27 As to making
distinctions between native and foreigner, it
was without a precedent. Besides, if a differ-
ence were made the Venetians would be the
26 Cf. S. P. D. James I. vol. io, No. 29.
27 Cf. S. P. D. James I. vol. 10, No. 34, where the
statement is made that if the merchants go on per-
sisting that they cannot maintain the ambassador and
consuls if the impost is continued, the king himself
should maintain them. “ By which course the main-
tenance of the ambassador shall be more honorable
in the king than it was in the merchants, all foreign
nations disgracing the ambassador in Turkey as a
stipendiary of the merchantsand maintained by them.”
They reasserted26 that the trade could only
be carried on effectively when an ambassador
resided in Constantinople. Furthermore they
complained that the impositions made no
difference between Englishmen and foreigners,
so that it would be easy for the latter to drive
out the English from the trade. Especially
easy would this be for the Venetians, since the
English had to pay double impositions, once
here and once in Venice. And so the English
traders asked that strangers should be forced
to pay double impositions in England.
To all these points the King replied that
the trade was so extensive that it could
easily bear all taxation.27 As to making
distinctions between native and foreigner, it
was without a precedent. Besides, if a differ-
ence were made the Venetians would be the
26 Cf. S. P. D. James I. vol. io, No. 29.
27 Cf. S. P. D. James I. vol. 10, No. 34, where the
statement is made that if the merchants go on per-
sisting that they cannot maintain the ambassador and
consuls if the impost is continued, the king himself
should maintain them. “ By which course the main-
tenance of the ambassador shall be more honorable
in the king than it was in the merchants, all foreign
nations disgracing the ambassador in Turkey as a
stipendiary of the merchantsand maintained by them.”