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

252 THE EARLY HISTORY OF
for better supporting the great charge of her
majesty’s ambassador in Constantinople which
otherwise (of our selves) cannot be, we . . .
humbly crave of your honour to become our
good mediator to her majesty to grant the
same by letters patents, in such form and
order mentioned in the annexed articles to us
the undernamed of both companies, for other-
wise the time of her agents’ residence long
since expired, if he be not confirmed ambassa-
dor or else some other sent for him with the
accustomed presents according to order of that
Court, the intercourse cannot longer be con-
tinued, and we your humble suppliants shall
duly pray for your honour etc.
The Merchants trading Turkey and Venice.
B
Articles of the merchants trading Turkey
and Venice to be incorporated into one body
by the name of Merchants of Levant.8
i. That where Sir Edward Osborne, William
Harbrown, Richard Staper and divers other
merchants of London have made open the
trade into all the Turk’s dominions, whereby
8 S. P. D. Eli?, vol. 151, No. 34. These articles
have been slightly summarized.