THE SECOND LEVANT CHARTER a.d. 



1592. 

 and Paul Banning, and sundry other marchants of our 

 said Citie of London, have likewise at their great costes 

 and charges, builded and furnished diverse good and 

 serviceable shippes and therewith to their like costs and 

 charges have traded and frequented, and from time to 

 time doe trade and frequent and traffike by sea with 

 the commodities of our Realme to Venice, Zante, Candie, 

 and Zephalonia and other the dominions of the Segniorie 

 and State of Venice, and thereby have made and main- 

 teyned, and doe make and continually maintaine divers 

 good shippes with mariners skilfull and fitte and necessarie 

 for our service : and doe vent out of our Realme into 

 those partes diverse commodities of our Realme, and 

 returne hither into our sayde Realme many good and 

 necessarie commodities for the common wealth thereof: 

 All which traffike, as well inward as outward untill it 

 hath beene otherwise brought to passe by the sayde 

 endevours, costs, and charges of our sayde subjects, 

 was in effect by our subjectes wholy discontinued. 



Knowe yee, that hereupon we greatly tendring the 

 wealth of our people and the encouragement of them 

 and other our loving subjects in their good enterprises 

 for the advancement of lawfull traffike to the benefite 

 of our common wealth, have of our speciall grace, certaine 

 knowledge, and meere motion given and graunted, and 

 by these presents for us, our heyres, and successours, doe 

 give and graunt unto our sayd trustie and welbeloved 

 subjectes Edwarde Osborne Knight, George Barne Knight, 

 George Bonde knight, Richard Martine knight, John 

 Harte knight, John Hawkins knight, William Massam, 

 John Spencer, Richard Saltonstall, Nicholas Mosley Alder- 

 men of our sayde Citie of London, William Hareborne, 

 Edwarde Barton, William Borrough Esquires, Richard 

 Staper, Thomas Cordall, Henrie Parvis, Thomas Laurence, 

 Edwarde Holmeden, William Garraway, Robert Dowe, 

 Paul Banning, Roger Clarke, Henrie Anderson, Robert 

 Offley, Philip Grimes, Andrewe Banning, James Staper, 

 Robert Sadler, Leonarde Power, George Salter, Nicholas 



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