THE LETTERS PATENTS FOR BARBARY ad. 



1585. 



The Letters patents or priviledges granted by 

 her Majestie to certaine Noble men and Mar- 

 chants of London, for a trade to Barbarie, in 

 the yeere 1585. 



Lizabeth by the grace of God Queene 

 of England, France, and Ireland, de- 

 fender of the faith, &c. to the Treasurer 

 & Barons of our Eschequer, and to al 

 Maiors, shirifs, constables, customers, 

 collectors of our customes and subsidies, 

 controllers, searchers, and keepers of our 

 havens and creekes, ports and passages, within this our 

 realme of England and the dominions of the same, and 

 to al our officers, ministers and subjects, and to all other 

 whosoever to whom it shall or may appertaine, and to 

 every of them greeting. Whereas it is made evidently 

 and apparantly knowen unto us, that of late yeeres our 

 right trustie and right welbeloved councellors, Ambrose 

 Erie of Warwike, and Robert Erie of Leicester, and also 

 our loving and naturall subjects, Thomas Starkie of our 

 citie of London Alderman, Jerard Gore the elder, and all 

 his sonnes, Thomas Gore the elder, Arthur Atie gentle- 

 man, Alexander Avenon, Richard Staper, William Jen- 

 nings, Arthur Dawbeney, William Sherington, Thomas 

 Bramlie, Anthony Garrard, Robert How, Henry Colthirst, 

 Edward Holmden, John Swinnerton, Robert Walkaden, 

 Simon Lawrence, Nicholas Stile, Oliver Stile, William 

 Bond, Henrie Farrington, John Tedcastle, Walter [11. il. 115.] 

 Williams, William Brune, John Suzan, John Newton, 

 Thomas Owen, Roger Afield, Robert Washborne, Reinold 

 Guy, Thomas Hitchcocke, George Lydiat, John Cart- 

 wright, Henry Paiton, John Boldroe, Robert Bowyer, 

 Anthonie Dassell, Augustine Lane, Robert Lion, and 

 Thomas Dod, all of London, Marchants now trading 

 into the Countrey of Barbary, in the parts of Africa, 

 under the government of Muly Hammet Sheriffe, Em- 



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