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PIRATES, INTERLOPERS AND FACTORS
All these regulations had the great object in
view, expressed or unexpressed, of safe-
guarding the interests of members of the
company and of maintaining their sole rights
in the Levant trade. No doubt they proved
useful to a large extent. Yet the company
had trouble from three sources which was a
constant cause of irritation. There were
the “ interlopers ”—people who were not
members of the company, yet attempted to
enjoy advantages which only members of the
company might have. There were secondly,
pirates, and last of all, there were the factors
of members of the company resident in all
centres of trade in the Levant.
We have already mentioned examples of
interloping,1 which were attempts at nothing
less than smuggling. But these were not the
1 See above, p. 109 ff
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PIRATES, INTERLOPERS AND FACTORS
All these regulations had the great object in
view, expressed or unexpressed, of safe-
guarding the interests of members of the
company and of maintaining their sole rights
in the Levant trade. No doubt they proved
useful to a large extent. Yet the company
had trouble from three sources which was a
constant cause of irritation. There were
the “ interlopers ”—people who were not
members of the company, yet attempted to
enjoy advantages which only members of the
company might have. There were secondly,
pirates, and last of all, there were the factors
of members of the company resident in all
centres of trade in the Levant.
We have already mentioned examples of
interloping,1 which were attempts at nothing
less than smuggling. But these were not the
1 See above, p. 109 ff
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