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

i88 THE EARLY HISTORY OF
pformed and kept under the paines and
penalties therein to be conteyned soe as the
same statutes lawes constitucons orders and
ordinances forfeytures and penalties be not
contrarie or repugnant to the lawes and
statutes of this Realme nor contrarie
repugnant or derogatorie to anie treatise
leagues capitulacions or covenants betwene
us our heires or successors and anye other
Prince or Potentate made or to be made
nor tending to the hinderance of the trade
and traffique of anie of the same companie
behaving hym or themselves duelie and
orderlie as becometh good marchants of the
said companie without anie fraudulent or
disordered attemptes or practices. And also
wee will and by these presents for us our
heires and successors wee doe graunte to the
said Governor and companie of marchants of
England trading into the levant seas and
theire successors that the said Governor or
his Deputie or Deputies and assistants afore-
said or the more parte of them for the tyme
being togeather with the consent of the greater
parte of the companye assembled at a generall
courte may and shall have full and whole