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

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and companie of marchants of England trading
into the levant seas and theire successors
that they or the greater parte of them whereof
the said Governor or his Deputie for the tyme
being to be one from tyme to tyme and at all
tymes hereafter shall and may have aucthoritie
and power yearely and everie yeare uppon
the ffirst day of ffebruarie or at anie tyme
within ffowerteene dayes after that daye to
assemble and meete togeather in some con-
venient place within the cittie of london to
be appoynted from tyme to tyme by the said
Governor or in his absence by his Deputie
for the tyme being And that being soe
assembled yt shall and maye be lawfull to
and for the said Governor and companie of
marchants of England trading into the levant
seas for the tyme being or the greater parte
of them which then shall happen to be present
whereof the Governor or his Deputie for the
tyme being to be one to electe and nominate
one of the said companye which shall be
Governor of the said companye for one whole
yeare from thence nexte following and from
thence untill one other of the said companie
shall in due manner be chosen and sworne