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Richard Hakluyt - Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, 10
Prouided alwayes, and our expresse will is notwithstanding the premisses that if our sayde subiects shall
at any time hereafter be recompensed of and for all such newe impostes and charges as they and euery of
them shall pay, and likewise be freely discharged of and from the payment of all manner of newe
imposte or taxe for any of their marchandise which they hereafter shall bring into or from any the
dominions of the sayde State or Segniorie of Venice, and from all bondes and other assurances by them
or any of them to be made for or in that behalfe, that then immediatly from and after such recompence
and discharge made as aforesayde our sayde prohibition and restraint in these presentes mentioned, shall
not be of any strength or force against the sayde Citie or State of Venice, or any the subiects thereof, but
for and during such time onely and in such case when hereafter the sayde State of Venice shall againe
beginne to taxe or leuie any manner of newe imposte within the sayde dominions vpon any the goods or
marchandizes of our sayde subiects heereafter to be brought into any the dominions of the said State or
Segniorie of Venice. Any thing in these our letters Patents contayned to the contrarie thereof in any wise
notwithstanding.
And further wee straightly charge and commaunde, and by these presentes prohibite all and singular
Customers and Collectors of our Customes, pondage, and subsidies, and all other Officers within our
porte and Citie of London and else where, to whom it shall appertaine and euery of them, That they or
any of them by themselues, their clarkes, or substitutes shall not receiue or take, or suffer to be receiued
or taken for vs in our name, or to our vse, or in the name, or vnto the vse of our heires or successors of
any person or persons, any summe or summes of money, or other consideration during the sayde terme of
twelue yeeres for any custome, pondage, taxe or subsidie of any corrants, raysins of Corinth, or wines of
Candie aforesayd saue onely of and in the name of the sayde Gouernour and companie of marchantes of
the Leuant, or of some of that companie without the consent of the sayde Gouernour and companie in
writing vnder their sayd common seale, first had and obteyned, and vnto them shewed for the testifying
their sayd consent. And for the better and more sure obseruation thereof wee will and graunt for vs, our
heires or successors by these presentes, that our Treasurour and Barons of the Exchequer for the time
being by force of these presentes, and the inrollment thereof in the sayde Court of our Exchequour, at all
and euery time and times during the sayde terme of twelue yeeres, at and vpon the request of the sayde
Gouernour and companie, their Attourney or Attourneys, Deputies or assignes, shall and may make and
direct vnder the seale of the sayde Court one or more sufficient writte or writtes close or patent, vnto
euery or any of the sayd Customers, or other Officers to whom it shall appertaine, commaunding them
and euery of them thereby, that neither they nor any of them at any time or times during the sayd space of
twelue yeeres shall take entrie of any corants, raisins of Corinth, or wines of Candia, or take or make any
agreement for any custome, pondage, or other subsidie for any of the sayd corants, raisins of Corinth, or
wines of Candie, with any person or persons whatsoeuer, other then with, or in the name and by the
priuitie of the sayd gouernour and company or some of the same company.
And further of our special grace, certaine knowledge, and meere motion we haue condescended and
graunted, and by these presents for vs our heires and successours doe condescend and graunt to the sayd
Gouernour and company of merchants of Leuant, that wee, our heires and successours, during the sayd
terme, will not graunt libertie, licence, or power to any person or persons whatsoeuer contrary to the
tenour of these our letters patents, to saile, passe, trade, or traffique by the sayd Leuant Sea, into, or from
the sayde dominions of the sayd Grand Signior or the dominions of the State of Venice or any of them,
contrary to the true meaning of these presents, without the consent of the sayd Gouernour and Companie
or the most part of them.
And whereas Henry Farrington and Henry Hewet haue not yet assented to bee incorporated into the sayd
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