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

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jects and others to trade from this realm into
and from any of the places granted as aforesaid
upon pain of her majesty’s high displeasure and
loss of their ships and goods as adventured,
and imprisonment for their contempt. The
half to her majesty and the other to the said
company, to be allowed them by virtue hereof.
10. A commandment to all customers not
to take entry or make any agreement for the
customs of any currants, wines of Candy, or
Greekish oils without consent of the said mer-
chants, and that the said merchants may have
Writ out of the Exchequer to the said custo-
mers to the same effect.
11. That the said merchants may make and
use a common seal and may wear in their
flags and ... in their ships her majesty’s
arms with the red cross and white over the

Thomas Cordall,
Edward Holmden,
William Garraway,
Paul Bayning,
Robert Sadler,

same.
The names of the merchants to be inserted
in the patent :—
Sir Edward Osborne,
Sir George Barn,
Mr. Richard Martin,
Mr. John Hart,
Mr. William Masham,