THE LETTERS PATENTS FOR BARBARY a.d. 



1585. 



And for the better establishing, ordering and govern- 

 ing of the said Erles of Warwike and Leicester, Thomas 

 Starkie, &c. abovesaid, their factors, servants and assignes 

 in the trade aforesaid, we for us our heires and succes- 

 sors, doe by these presents give and graunt full licence 

 to the saide Thomas Starkie, Jerard Gore the elder, and 

 the rest aforesaide, and to every of them from time to 

 time, during the said terme of twelve yeres, at their 

 pleasures to assemble and meete together in any place or 

 places convenient within our citie of London, or else- 

 where, to consult of, and for the said trade, and with 

 the consent of the said Erie of Leicester, to make and 

 establish good and necessary orders and ordinances, for, 

 and touching the same, and al such orders and ordinances 

 so made, to put in ure and execute, and them or any 

 of them with the consent of the said Erie of Leicester, 

 to alter, change and make voyde, and if need be, to 

 make new, as at any time during the saide terme, they 

 or the most part of them then living and trading, shall 

 finde convenient. 



Provided alwayes, that the ordinances or any of them 

 bee not contrary or repugnant to the lawes, statutes or 

 customes of this our Realme of England. And to the 

 intent that they onely to whom the said libertie of 

 trafique is graunted by these our Letters patents, and 

 none other our Subjects whatsoever, without their special 

 consent and licence before had, should during the said 

 terme have trade or trafique for any maner of Marchan- 

 dizes, to, or from the said countrey of Barbary, or to, or 

 from any Citie, towne, place, port, harbor or creeke 

 within the said countrey of Barbary, to, or out of our 

 said Realmes and dominions, wee doe by these presents 

 straightly charge, commaund, and prohibite all and every 

 our Subjects whatsoever, other then only the said Erles 

 of Warwike and Leicester, Thomas Starkie, and the rest 

 abovesaid, and every of them by themselves, or by their 

 Factors or servants during the saide terme, to trade or 

 trafique, for or with any marchandize, to, or from the 



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