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INTRODUCTION xxv11
In his Relation II. Mundy gives an account of his
journey overland from Constantinople to London. In this
story, he chronicles, in the form of a diary, the events of
each day and the various stages of the route from the 6th
May until the 18th September, 1620'.
Pindar's reason for travelling across Europe instead of
returning to England by sea is not known. It is possible
that he had instructions from the Levant Company to
enquire into the state of their trade in the inland cities
with a view to creating additional mercantile centres, as
he visited all the important places with which the Company
had established relations.
The ex-ambassador's cavalcade was such as befitted
his position. He left his house at Pera, accompanied by
his nephew, several members of the Levant Company, an
interpreter and seventeen servants of various nationalities.
The ambassador and the merchants rode, and twelve
waggons carried the baggage and the servants. A guard
of twenty-one Janissaries was told off by the Grand
Signior as a protection during the first stages of the
journey. Six Frenchmen, who had accompanied Monsieur
de Cesy, Louis XIII.'s ambassador, to Constantinople,
joined Pindar's party with thirty-one carts for " themselves
and their Lumberment2." The cavalcade thus consisted of
fifty-six persons, and it was further augmented at the
outset by the resident merchants of Galata, twelve in
number1, who escorted Pindar from his house at Pera to
1 He probably kept a rough record of events and put it into shape
on the return voyage from India in 1634, when he wrote the account
of his early travels comprised in Relation I.
' See p. 44.
3 Since the text of Relation II. was printed, information has come
to light regarding Messrs Hunt, Guilliams and Lowe. (See note 2 on
P- 44, and notes 2 and 3 on p. 45.) In 1623, Henry Hunt, "late
apprentice of Mr Roger Harvey, having been employed in the Com-
pany's privileges for three years bevond the seas and upwards," was
admitted to the freedom of the Levant Company. In February, 1624,
Abell Guilliams, "Apprentice to John Williams haveing served three
yeares and upwards in the priveledges and payed the usual fyne of xxr.
was admitted to the freedom of the Company. On the 6th July, 1626,
In his Relation II. Mundy gives an account of his
journey overland from Constantinople to London. In this
story, he chronicles, in the form of a diary, the events of
each day and the various stages of the route from the 6th
May until the 18th September, 1620'.
Pindar's reason for travelling across Europe instead of
returning to England by sea is not known. It is possible
that he had instructions from the Levant Company to
enquire into the state of their trade in the inland cities
with a view to creating additional mercantile centres, as
he visited all the important places with which the Company
had established relations.
The ex-ambassador's cavalcade was such as befitted
his position. He left his house at Pera, accompanied by
his nephew, several members of the Levant Company, an
interpreter and seventeen servants of various nationalities.
The ambassador and the merchants rode, and twelve
waggons carried the baggage and the servants. A guard
of twenty-one Janissaries was told off by the Grand
Signior as a protection during the first stages of the
journey. Six Frenchmen, who had accompanied Monsieur
de Cesy, Louis XIII.'s ambassador, to Constantinople,
joined Pindar's party with thirty-one carts for " themselves
and their Lumberment2." The cavalcade thus consisted of
fifty-six persons, and it was further augmented at the
outset by the resident merchants of Galata, twelve in
number1, who escorted Pindar from his house at Pera to
1 He probably kept a rough record of events and put it into shape
on the return voyage from India in 1634, when he wrote the account
of his early travels comprised in Relation I.
' See p. 44.
3 Since the text of Relation II. was printed, information has come
to light regarding Messrs Hunt, Guilliams and Lowe. (See note 2 on
P- 44, and notes 2 and 3 on p. 45.) In 1623, Henry Hunt, "late
apprentice of Mr Roger Harvey, having been employed in the Com-
pany's privileges for three years bevond the seas and upwards," was
admitted to the freedom of the Levant Company. In February, 1624,
Abell Guilliams, "Apprentice to John Williams haveing served three
yeares and upwards in the priveledges and payed the usual fyne of xxr.
was admitted to the freedom of the Company. On the 6th July, 1626,