THE SECOND LEVANT CHARTER ad. 



1592. 



wardes that the sayd marchandizes have within the time 

 limited answered their due custome, subsidie, pondage 

 and other duties for the same inwards. 



And furthermore we of our ample and aboundant 

 grace, meere motion, and certaine knowledge have 

 graunted, and by these presents for us our heyres and 

 successours doe graunt unto the said Governours and 

 companie of marchantes of the Levant, that they and 

 such onely as be and shall be of that companie, shall 

 for the sayd terme of twelve yeeres have, use, and enjoy 

 the whole and onely trade and traffike, and the whole 

 entire and onely libertie, use, and priviledge of trading 

 and traffiking, and using feate of marchandise by and 

 through the Levant seas otherwise called the Mediterran 

 seas into and from the sayd dominions of the Grand 

 Signor, and dominions of the state of Venice ; and by 

 and through the sayd Grand Signors dominions to and 

 from such other places in the East Indies discovered as 

 aforesayd. And that they the sayd Governour and com- 

 panie of marchants of the Levant and every particular 

 and severall person of that companie their and every 

 one of their servants, factors, and deputies shall have 

 full and free authoritie, libertie, facultie, licence, and 

 power to trade and trafficke by and through the sayd 

 Levant seas into and from all and every the sayd 

 dominions of the sayde Grand Signor, and the dominions [II. i. 299.] 

 of the state of Venice, and the sayde Indies, and into 

 and from all places where by occasion of the sayd trade 

 they shall happen to arrive or come, whither they be 

 Christians, Turkes, Gentiles, or others : And by and 

 through the sayd Levant seas into and from all other 

 seas, rivers, portes, regions, territories, dominions, coastes 

 and places with their ships, barkes, pinases and other 

 vessels, and with such mariners and men as they will 

 leade or have with them, or sende for the sayde trade 

 as they shall thinke good at their owne proper costes 

 and expenses. 



And for that the shippes sayling into the sayde 



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