202 A. D. 1593. 



iliall trade within the company's limits. And whereas the ftate of Ve- 

 nice has of late increafed the duties on Englifh merchandize carried thi- 

 ther, and on Venetian merchandize exported from thence in EngHfh 

 Ihips ; for redrefs thereof, the queen forbids the fubjeds of Venice, and 

 all others but this. company, for the faid twelve years, to import into 

 England any of the fruits called currants (being the raifins of Corinth), 

 or wines of Candia, unlefs by the company's licence under their feal, 

 upon pain of forfeiture of fhips and goods, half to the queen and half 

 to the company, and alfo of imprifonment ; provided always, that if 

 the Venetian ftate fhall take off the two new imports, then this reftraint 

 touching currants and wines of Candia fhall be void. The company- 

 may admit to be new members any who {hall have been employed as 

 their fadors, &c. And the queen gives leave for eighteen perfons more 

 (three of whom to be aldermen of London, by her herein named) to be 

 of the lliid company, upon each of them paying L130 to this company 

 towards their pafl: charges in eftablifhing the faid trades. Members not 

 conforming to the rules, payments, and regulations of the company, 

 fhall forfeit their right to be of the faid company, whereupon the com- 

 pany may eled: others in their flead. If this patent fhall hereafter ap- 

 pear to the queen not to be profitable to her or to the realm, then, up- 

 on eighteen months notice, it fhall ceafe and determine. And, on the 

 other fide, if, at the expiration of the faid twelve years, this trade Ihall 

 appear to be advantageous, then this company may, on their petition 

 to the queen, have a new grant of twelve years more. Dated the 7th 

 of January, in the 34th year of her reign. 



N. B. There was formerly a particular branch of this company, which 

 was called the Morea company, and which traded with a joint ftock. 

 But this general Turkey company has from the beginning been only 

 what is called a regulated company. 



In the fame year, Sir Walter Raleigh had formed a defign on the 

 Spanifii Wefi-Indies, and alfo to furprife the port of Panama in the 

 fouth fea ; but that enterprife, like very many fuch, was fruftrated by 

 contrary winds. The immenfe riches annually brought home by the 

 Spaniih and Portuguefe fleets from the Eaft and Weft Indies occafioned 

 fo many attempts of the Englifh to intercept them, that though Raleigh 

 was now difappointed of his defign on the Wefl-Indies, yet the great 

 Eafl-lndiacarrack before mentioned made amends for his expenfe of the 

 equipment of fifteen fhips for the Wefl: -India expedition. 



Whilfl; thofe enterprifes were made beyond fea, our general com- 

 niei'ce occalioning a gradual increafe of the fviburbs of London, the hu- 

 mour of difmal apprehenfions therefrom, which had moved Queen Eli- 

 zabeth to iflue a proclamation againfl; it in the year 1580, in this year 

 infeded the parliament fo far as to enaft, 1) That no new buildings 

 fhould be ereded within three m,iles of London or Weftminfter. II) 



