Epstein, Mordecai: The English Levant Company: its foundation and its history to 1640 (London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1908)

i68 THE EARLY HISTORY OF
and receave into their said companye and
to be free of the same all and everie such pson
and psns being subjects of us our heires and
successors as nowe are or hereafter shall be
meere marchants above thage of Twentie
and syxe yeares and not within his or theire
apprenticeshippe and which by the lawes
and statutes of this our realme maye law-
fullye use the trade of marchandize from or
into our realme of England Soe as such pson
or psons require to be made free of the said
companye before the feaste of the Anuncia-
cion of our blessed ladye saint mary the virgin
nexte ensuying the date of this our graunte
And shall offer and paye unto the said Gover-
nor and companie for the tyme being at the
tyme of his or theire admyttance the some
of Twentie and fyve poundes for his or theire
freedome in that behalfe and that they and
theire successors shall alsoe from tyme to
tyme admytt and receave into theire said
companye and to be free of the same all and
everye such pson and psons being subjects
of us our heires and successors as nowe be
or hereafter shall be meere marchants and
by the lawes and statutes of this realme may