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THE LEVANT COMPANY 253
divers privileges are there granted to her
majesty’s subjects trading those parts for the
profitable vent of the commodities of this
realm, the increase of her majesty’s customs
and the navy of the same,
2. Her majesty [tendering]9 the wealth of
her people, for the better preservation of the
said trade and privileges, doth grant the whole
trade and traffic into and from this realm to
all the Turk’s dominions and into and from
the dominions of the Signiory of Venice to Sir
Richard Osborne, &etc. their children and
their apprentices.
3. They to be one body politic, by the name
of merchants of Levant, authorized to as-
semble themselves to choose a Governor and
six assistants yearly and to make laws for
their trade.
4. Liberty to trade with Turks, Jews, and
all other persons, to carry over all lawful
merchandize, paying her majesty’s custom
and to bring from those parts into this realm
all manner of commodities paying only her
majesty’s customs for the same.
5. That her majesty for the said her customs
9 It is difficult to make out this word in the MS.
divers privileges are there granted to her
majesty’s subjects trading those parts for the
profitable vent of the commodities of this
realm, the increase of her majesty’s customs
and the navy of the same,
2. Her majesty [tendering]9 the wealth of
her people, for the better preservation of the
said trade and privileges, doth grant the whole
trade and traffic into and from this realm to
all the Turk’s dominions and into and from
the dominions of the Signiory of Venice to Sir
Richard Osborne, &etc. their children and
their apprentices.
3. They to be one body politic, by the name
of merchants of Levant, authorized to as-
semble themselves to choose a Governor and
six assistants yearly and to make laws for
their trade.
4. Liberty to trade with Turks, Jews, and
all other persons, to carry over all lawful
merchandize, paying her majesty’s custom
and to bring from those parts into this realm
all manner of commodities paying only her
majesty’s customs for the same.
5. That her majesty for the said her customs
9 It is difficult to make out this word in the MS.