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

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2. And for the supporting by us (as above-
said) of all charges to any such am-
bassador or agent incident, it may
please her majesty to rent us the
customs of our goods, in and out, for
the same trade of Turkey only, at some
reasonable rate for these seven years.
3. Otherwise, that for such goods as we
shall bring into this realm out of
Turkey, that if we transport and send
any part out of this realm again, to be
sold in any other country, that then
for the same we may have the customs
which we paid inwards returned and
allowed to us again, for that thereby
her majesty loseth nothing, the same
growing of such things as cometh in
more than the realm needeth, which
now is not brought in at all.
Otherwise, that it may please her majesty
to defer the payment of her customs
for the said trade, in and out, into the
end of the aforesaid seven years.
This amity begun (we suppose) is likely
always to continue, her majesty sending over
at the change of every Grand Signior a present
as aforesaid.