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

THE LEVANT COMPANY 171

yeares or upwardes within the signiories
and Domynions aforesaid whither those
yeares of imployment be whollye within
their apprentishipps or partelie within theire
apprentishippes and partlye after theire ap-
prentishippes ended and whether those yeares
of imployment be jointly togeather or at
severall tymes amounting to three yeares or
upwardes shall from tyme to tyme at all tymes
hereafter after theire severall apprentice-
shippes fullye ended and wholly imployed
in the service of theire masters uppon pre-
senting of theire and everie or anie of theire
name or names unto the said Governor and
company of marchants and uppon payment
of the some Twentie shillings onely for
the freedome of eache and everie such sonne
or apprentice unto such officer or other pson
as by the said Governor and company for
the tyme being shall be appoynted for the
Receipte thereof shall and may be admytted
and become free of the said companie and
corporacion of Governor and company of
marchants of England trading into the levant
seas. And towching such apprentices of all
and everie pson or psons as are or shall be