AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1584. 



poore men money at his pleasure, and therewith buyeth 

 currents at a very low price, which after he doth forcibly 

 sell to us at a much higher price, saying it is remainder 

 of the goods of the king, and by this meanes doth hurt 

 the poore men and do them wrong. Wherefore I com- 

 [II. i. 182.] mand you by this my commandement, that you looke to 

 this matter betweene this Consull, the Nadir, and this 

 people, and do therein equally according to right. And 

 see that our commandement in this matter be observed 

 in such sort, as they having once in the port paied full 

 custome, do not pay it againe, neither that this Nadir 

 do take any more money of them by the way of present, 

 for that therein it is most certaine he doth them injurie 

 contrary to the Canon. And if with you shall be found 

 to the value of one Asper taken heretofore wrongfully of 

 them, see it presently restored to them, without any 

 default. And from hencefoorth see that he doe neither 

 him nor his people wrong, but that he deale with them 

 in all things according to our Canon, that the Consull 

 and his hereafter have no occasion any more to complaine 

 here in our Court, and that the Nadir proceed in gather- 

 ing corants of the people after the old order and not 

 otherwise. This know you for certaine, and give credit 

 to this my commaundement, which having read deliver 

 againe into the Consuls handes. From Constantinople 

 the yeere of Mahomet 993. 



A commandement for Chio. 



VObis, Beg & Cadi & Ermini, qui estis in Chio, 

 significamus : quod serenissimae Reginae Majestatis 

 Angliae orator, qui est in excelsa porta per literas signifi- 

 cavit nobis, quod ex navibus Anglicis una navis venisset 

 ad portum Chio, & illinc Constantinopolim recto cursu 

 voluisset venire, & contra privilegium detinuistis, & non 

 sivistis venire. Haec praedictus orator significavit nobis : 

 & petivit a nobis in hoc negocio hoc mandatum, ut 

 naves Anglicae veniant & redeant in nostras ditiones 

 Caesareas. Privilegium datum & concessum est ex parte 



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