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THE LEVANT COMPANY 149
the Governor to ask 19 the Company that they
should take some course against “ the exorbi-
tant height and excess that their factors abroad
do live in for apparel and otherwise.” Perhaps
one excuse for this was that some of them at
any rate were very young.20
20 Cf. Min. October 3, 1638, where a letter from the
consul at Aleppo was mentioned, in which he asked the
company to send no factors to Aleppo “ till they were
of the age of twenty-two or upwards, and had attained
to some settledness in judgment and manners.”
the Governor to ask 19 the Company that they
should take some course against “ the exorbi-
tant height and excess that their factors abroad
do live in for apparel and otherwise.” Perhaps
one excuse for this was that some of them at
any rate were very young.20
20 Cf. Min. October 3, 1638, where a letter from the
consul at Aleppo was mentioned, in which he asked the
company to send no factors to Aleppo “ till they were
of the age of twenty-two or upwards, and had attained
to some settledness in judgment and manners.”