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

172 THE EARLY HISTORY OF
of the same companie or corporacon which
duering theire apprentishippe are not or
shall not be imployed in the said trade by
the space of three yeares or upwardes within
the signiories and Domynions aforesaid :
Our will and pleasure is that everie or anie
pson or psons nowe being or which hereafter
shall be of the said companye or Corporation
shall or maye once in everie seaven yeares
nexte ensuyng the date hereof make one
such his apprentice free of this company or
corporation albeit the same apprentice have
not bein imployed as aforesaid paying at
his admyssion to be free of the said companie
the some of Twentie shillings unto such
officer or other pson as by the said Governor
and companie for the tyme being shall be
appoynted for the receipte thereof as is afore-
said And whereas dyverse and sondrye
of our subjects have bein bounde apprentices
and have served theire full apprentishipp
with several psons which we are of the former
societie of the marchants of London trading
the levant seas and have bein imployed in
the said trade in the service of theire masters
by the space of three yeares or more and by