THE LETTERS PATENTS FOR BARBARY a.d. 



1585. 



terrupted in this their said trade, we do by these presents 

 for us, our heires and successours, straightly prohibite 

 and forbid all maner of person or persons, as well 

 strangers of what nation or countrey soever, as our owne 

 Subjects, other then onely the said Erles, Thomas Star- 

 kie, &c. and every of them as aforesaid, that they nor 

 any of them from hencefoorth during the said terme of 

 12. yeeres, do or shall bring, or cause to be brought 

 into this our Realme of England, or to any the domi- 

 nions thereof, any maner of marchandizes whatsoever 

 growing, or being made within the said Countrey of 

 Barbary, or within any the dominions thereof, unlesse it 

 be by and with the licence, consent and agreement of 

 the said Erles, Thomas Starkie, &c. or with the consent 

 and licence of the more part of them then living, first 

 had and obtained, so alwayes y l the sayd Erie of Leices- 

 ter (if hee be living) be one, under the paine that every 

 one that shall offend or doe against this our present 

 prohibition here last above mentioned in these presents, 

 shall forfeite and lose all and singular the said marchan- 

 dizes to be landed in any our realmes and dominions, 

 contrary to the tenor and true meaning of this our pro- 

 hibition in that behalfe provided : the one moitie of all 

 and every which said forfaitures whatsoever mentioned 

 or specified in these our present Letters patents, shalbe 

 to us our heires & successors : And the other moity of 

 al and every the said forfaitures, we doe by these pre- 

 sents of our certaine knowledge and meere motion, 

 clearely and wholy for us, our heires and successors, 

 give and graunt unto the said Erles, Thomas Starkie, 

 &c. And these our Letters patents, upon the onely 

 sight thereof, without any further warrant, shal bee suffi- 

 cient authoritie to our Treasurer of England for the 

 time being, to our Barons of the Exchequer, and to all 

 other our officers that shall have to deale in this behalfe, 

 to make full allowance unto the said Erles, Thomas 

 Starkie, &c. their deputies or assignes of the one moitie 

 of all and singular the goods, marchandizes and things 



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