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

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aucthoritie to doe and execute all thinges
which by the said Governor or his Deputie
and Assistants of the said companie for the
tyme being or the more parte of them to-
geather with the assent of the said companie
resident in London present at anie courte
or assembly shall be unto the said consull
or consulls and vice consulls and everie of
them in the said Signiorye Domynions and
places aforesaid for the tyme being prescribed
and appoynted according to the Statutes
actes and ordinances of the said companie
Soe as anie of the ordinances orders direccions
and constitucions soe to be prescribed be
not to the hinderance of the trade of anie of
the said companie behaving him or themselves
duelye and orderlye as becometh good mar-
chants of the said companye without anie
fraudulent or disorderly attempte or practize
And that it shall be lawfull for the said
Governor and companie and theire successors
the said consull or consulls or vice consulls
and everie of them to change and remove
at theire pleasure. And further we will and
for us our heires and successors by these
presents doe graunte unto the said Governor