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7° The Reign of Sultan Ibrahim., 164*. our Selves and your Eftates in future from I His Lordfhip's Caule is fo bad, that 164& ^-yv) liim, and free the Ships out of Port, (which Signor Vomhtico your Secretary, Signier ^^VV no queftion at laft will be proved have been George, and all other Druggermen, have detained by his Lordfhip to this ill pur- not only declined his Lordftup, but apply I pole) and if poffihJe, to procure the re themfèlves to us, (and efpecially the forturn of Dollars, 20 in 30000, his Lord-| mer). In fine, we conceive his Lordfhip flüplıath unavoidably forced from us in the finds his former bad Proceedings have Leviation Accompt, upon ftrange Preren- made.him uncapable to return into Emg- I ces. All which (by the affiftance of our \land> and atto uncertain of his Refidence obliged and worthy Friend Signier-Jllufirif- here ; which, together with the improvi I fimo Coppes', together with the expence of dent ufo he hath made of his Golden Time, Dollars 30 in 40000, to the Vizier and 0- that he intended to feize upon all He and • ther Turkilh Minifters) we doubt not his unworthy Instruments could catch hold but fpeedUy to effect ; for without this hoof; for to this purpofe he diverted the Gol H neft defenuve Remedy, we can expeâ noii» Fleece's advantagious Defign for Venice \ thing but ruin to all your Eftate in the which atfirft was approved and caulcd by Country, which frill he threatneth, and his own content ; and occasioned her Fa- ~ endeavours by all his devilifh Policy and ffcor here, to whom (he was configned, to Means to effect : But the Vizier, and the let her him to freight, that fo Himfèlf, Fa two Caddeleskicrs, who are our Judges, mily, and undue gotten Eftate, may be are fo poflèft wich the Truth and Reafon conveyed (as is iuppofèd) into Fr*»ce, of our Caule, as well by the People of with whole AmbaAador, there hath been the Country, as our Selves, that they have often a more than ordinary correfpondency given us full afTurance, by Promifês, Pro- of late. teftations, and found Probabilities, that I our juft Demands fhall be aceompliflied ; Galatttoï Confi tntinoplcy for which we all faithfhlly and earneftly June 28. 1646. I endeavour Night and Day,and fo do hourly expect, a good determination of it : and Before the foaling up of our Letter, we I till there be an Iflue or Settlement given have procured an Imperial Command for to this our confuted Condition, (which the recovering of the Eftate into our H we hope will not continue for many day») Hands, taken away at Smyrna ; as alio for no particular Principal rniift expect. Advice the attaching the Perlons, and bringing from any Factor here, becaufè no private thole good Agents of his Lordmips hither, Man can fitly advifè any thing, till the ge to aniwer their Proceedings and Behavineral Bufinejfs, be better ordered : And as our.: the obtaining of .which Command, we proceed therein, we flhall by all Ways we arc not a little glad of, being our Obli and Conveyances give your Wocfhips a gatory Teftimony of the Vizier's being true and exact. Account. We do humbly our Friend, and ties him thereby to conti befeech your Worfhips to acknowledg the nue fo, which we hope effectually to find, good Offices of the State's Agent to their two days hence, when his Lordfhip is to AmbaAador with you, and fo fully certify appear with us before him ; but in caie he I him» thatllluftr. Sign. Coppes appeared no rehifèth (as already he hath done) the ways againft his Lordfhip as AmbaAador, Vizier will give Sentence againft him, I or trenching on the King's Honour, but . Your Worfhips may be pleated to take rcTpcci fully and modeftly for die fafety of notice, that his Lordfnip's chief Counci • your Eftates. lor, in thefe his undue Proceedings, is I To particularize all Paflages and Cir- Mr. Henry Hyde y of whole good Service H cumitances in this Bufinefs, would prove in your former Occafions at the Mores, we more. troublefom than needful to your need not to give teftimony ; but can affare Worlhips, fo plcafc to accept of this Re your Worlhips, that fince his coming hilation , for this is the prêtent frate of yours ther, he hath occasioned great Difturbance and our Condition j. which though not fo among the Nation ; and now at laft(had the well. as we could wiih, yet better than we Defign before mentioned taken erlc£t)might could imagine ; for the Hand was up, the have railed his decayed Fortunes, by the Match lighted, and a little more time ruin of Yours and our Eftates J but,thanks would have blown up all. We need not be to God, the Counfol of Achitophd is put your Worlhips in mind fpeedily to turned into Folly. And for your late lend us another Protectar, feeing the Ne- Treafiirer Job» Wooif,. the fàtisfying JOT ceflity of your Occafions craves it too plain whole Debts hath fo mounted the laft Lely ì and in confidence of your fpeedy Re- viation, he is fo far from acknowledging I folution thereof, we (hall continue, hoping the Courtefies done in acquitting him from our Defires will be fatisfied, and the his Creditors, that he is become Afliftant H Eftates in better fècurity, by his fpeedy (thougha weak one) to his Lordfhip in I arrival here, which God in Mercy the Proceeding aforcraentionèoU And ha grant. ving deferted G*Ut*, with Mr. Hemp I HA»
Tïvelftlj^^eror of^ße Turfy. 1646. Hyde, refıdesathisLorflıip's, laying their t - /r V~° Heads together in contriving Mifchief againft tliofè from whom they have had their Maintenance. In cafe your Worfhips fhould not be in a pofture to procure an Ambaflâdor fò toon as you may delire,* that you would pleafè in the interim, and as fbon as may be, to obtain a Letter from his Majefty to the Grand Signior, or Vizier, in approbation and acknowledgment of what is done; and that his Lordfhip benotnim- '; : bier than your Worfhips in getting the like againft us, which doubtlefs he will endeavour. We fhallnot farther in large at prêtent, but intend fhortly,when all things filali be fully and abfölutely fètled, to • \yrite to your Worfhips again. So we reih At Inftant a Copy of his LordihipY Letter, with others directed to him, oeing come to hand,we lend them herewith ; and from Smyrna, are advifèd that the Peril j * ions of Hetherington znd the Druggerman are detained aboard our Ships there ; and * by this time the Command is with them, which will warrant the bringing them up with their Papers, that are alio aboard ; The Failors Cenerai Letter from Smyrna, dated the 4th of July, 1646, fo the Levant Company-, Right Worßipful Sirs, IT may pleafè you, our laft from hence was by the Ship William, and Thomas, advifing his Lordfhips Proceedings for another Leviation, for difcharging your Debts at Conßantinople, being then informed that the whole amounted unto Dollars 118109 ; and how We were refblved to withftand it, until your Worfhips further Pleafure fhould be fignified unto us concerning the fame, for luch Reafòns as we then prefurned to Jay open unto you ; and that in the mean prnè we had prefènted our Grievances tö his Lordfhip's gracious perufàl, the Copy whereof went annexed to our laid Letter, to both which you may pleafè to have reference. The 24/A of March following, our Conful called a Court, and declared his Lordfhip's Ajifwer to our laid Letter, difliking our Proceedings ; and by a new Order pro by which the Plot will more plainly ap- hibited the lading of Goods, and receiving fear. To morrow we expect, his Lord- them on Board, and the departure of Ships, _Jjp*s S appearance before the Vizier, when until the laid Leviation were paid, accord we have hopes to reward the Trouble ing to his former Order, and Schedule now he intended others, &c. let down, fhewingeach Man his proportionable part for his Faftory of Smyrna,- Kfpt until the 6th of amounting in all to Dollars *)49$o, and for July, 1646. I the Faftory at Constantinople, to Dollars 56000,1s together Dollars, % 109 50. Where Your Worfhips moft obliged and upon, we generally defired that his Lord | humble Servants, „ fhip would be pleafèd to fufpend the exëf Gurion of the laid Order of Leviation, un John Wyld, Samuel Barnardißon, til flieh time we fhould receive your Wor John Lancelots John Swift, fhips farther Order about it,without which Nicholas Read, William Gough, we our fèlves were like to pay it out of William Jßley» I Thomas Pigaf, • our own Purfès, as in the laft Leviation} Thome* Berkley y John Ahney, receiving fince particular Orders fromfòms Dixtvell Brent y Francis Afbwcll, of our Principals, not to pay any Levia- Nat h. Barnardißon, Robert Frampton, tions, otherwifè it fhould be for our own James Moyer, Gyles Davis, Accompts, and not theirs. James Modyford, JohH Plomer, The 2Ath of April, thé Conful called intèl Edwards, James Davifon, another Court, fignifying unto us, that William Chappel, William O slum, hisLorfhip did require an account for the Roger Vouke, Henry Davy, departure of the Ship William and Thomas, Gyles Ball, Richard Strode', and Succeß, contrary to his Lordfhip's John Tye> Philip Farewtll, Commands, there being an Officer of thd $>%» Ball, M John Eri/ey, Vizier's come down tò apprehend Captain William Pearl, Jonathan Dawes, Tho. Porter; and to carry him Up to Con* John Pixley, Ralph Crofnold. pantinople, (which Ships departed at tlieit yjpjjgf Monger, own pleafiires, being not in our powers to ftay them ). And that concerning the Le your Worfhips moft obliged, moft viation it was inevitable, and his Lordfhip . humble, and fkithml Servant, was refblved upon it, and therefore would force us unto it, and expect repair of .Ho Domenico Tintone, nour from theDelinquents.Whereupon fearinghis I^raTnip'sfàrtherdifpleafurejWhich I Şfecretaİfyj_^ might Beget fome greater Inconveniences âmongft us, we prefumed to yield unto his Lord 7* ila
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