A COMMANDMENT TO PATRAS ad. 



1584. 

 and unjustly molesting our nation, contrarie to the kings 

 commandement, which they disdainefully contemned, as 

 also that the said Mahomet restore and pay unto ours 

 thirtie for 300 sackes of currants nowe taken 



forcibly out of a barke, comming thither from the hither 

 partes of Morea, to pay the king his custome, and that 

 from hence forth, neither the said Mahomet, Azon Agon, 

 nor any other officer or person whatsoever doe hinder or 

 trouble any of ours going thither or to any other place 

 about ther affaires. 



6 That whereas certaine Jewes of Lepanto owing 

 money to our marchants for commodities solde them, 

 have not hitherto satisfied them, notwithstanding ours 

 had from the king a commandement for the recovery of 

 the same debts, but fled and absented themselves out of 

 the Towne at the comming of the same, another more 

 forcible commaundement may be graunted ours, that for 

 nonpaiment, whatsoever may be found of theirs in goods, 

 houses, vineyards, or any other thing, may be sold, and 

 ours satisfied of their said debt, according to equitie and 

 reason. 



A commandement to Patrasso in Morea. 



WHen this commandement shall come unto you, 

 know you, that the Consull of the English Nation 

 in our port of Patrasso, hath given us to understand, that 

 formerly we granted him a commandement that having 

 paied once custome for the currants bought to lade in 

 their ships, they shall not pay it againe : according to 

 which they bringing it to the port of Petrasso, informing 

 thereof Mahomet the Nadir of Lepanto, he contrary to 

 the tenor thereof and former order, doth againe take 

 another custome of him, and requiring him to know why 

 he so did contrary to our commandement, he answered 

 us, he tooke it not for custome, but for a present. 

 Moreover the sayd Consull certified us how that the said 

 Nadir contrary to ancient custome doth not take for the 

 kings right as he ought currents, but will have of the 



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