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

262 THE EARLY HISTORY OF

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The ill-treatment of the English merchants
at the hands of the Venetians was a great
point for the former, and they sought to make
it quite clear how much worse off the English
trader was than the Venetian, by giving con-
crete examples. Thus, here is “a declara-
tion19 of the difference of the custom and
impost between Venetians and Englishmen,
as well for Kersies and tin as for currants.

Englishman buys
here 100 pair of
Kersies @ £4 a
pair ....
Customs here .

£410

So the Englishman is better
oss than the stranger to
the extent of £11.

Stranger buys here
100 pair of Ker-
sies @ £4 a pair
He pays double
customs
He may pay in
packing and such
other duties as
the Englishman
may not

£
=400
= 20

1

£421

19 S. P. D. James I. vol. 6, No. 67.