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

igo THE EARLY HISTORY OF

graunte to the said Governor and companie
of marchants of England trading into the
levant seas and theire successors [that]12
yf anie of the said companie or other pson
or psons which shall use the trade of marchan-
dize into the said Domynions of Turkey the
Signiorie of Venice and other places of traf-
hque within the levant seas or anie parte
thereof shall refuse to paie or shall not paie
the said somes of money soe assessed or to
be assessed or sett uppon theire marchandize
or shippes as aforesaid or shall offend or doe
against the advancement of the said trade
and traffique and the comon proffitt of the
priviledges or liberties of the said companie
in and by these presents to the said Governor
and companie graunted or contrairie to anie
article clause or graunte herein contayned
or againste anie statute acte or ordinances
by the said Governor or his Deputie or Depu-
ties or Assistants aforesaid or the greater
parte of them in manner and forme aforesaid
made or hereafter to be made or shall refuse
to paye the said some or somes of money
12 The word is so faint in the MS. that it can scarcely
be read. I take it to be “ that.”