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9from thence laden with sondry kinds of marchandize and have alsoeprepared and are readie to set forth another voiage into the saideEast Indies and they the saide governor and company beingdesirous and endevouring by all good meanes to manage and carrytheir saide trade as neere as they can rather by the t'ansportac'onof the native commodities of our kingdomes and by the barteringand exchange of them for forren com'odities then by using thebenefit granted them by the said 1'res patents for the carying outof so much tresure in every of their voiages doe content themselvesin this p'esent voyage with the lib'ty of t'ansportac'on of twelvethousand pounds in forrein coyne without t'ansportac'on of anieother coyne bulloyn or silver and to that end have made humblepeticyon unto us that they may t'ansport the saide value of twelvethousand pounds of forreyn coine without coyning the same oranie part thereof in our mynt within our Tower of London the ratherfor that they found by experience in their last voiage that theycould not without great difficulty and some losse to the said marchantsin the value of their monies newe coyned for that voiagemake trade for their marchandize in the said East Indies becausethe said mony being stamped with the ymage and sup'sricpc'on ofour said deare sister was strange and unknowne to the people ofthose parts and the monies now to [be] coyned in our said mintbeing to be coined with a new stamp of our owne ymage andsup'scripc'on will nott only draw them into the like hindrance intheir trade when they shall come into the saide Indies but willcause their shipps which are nowe allmoste ready to depart in theirvoiage to stay and to be detained here to their further damageand hindrance untill new stamps for the coyning of the saidmonies in our mynt shall be graven and made for that purpose.Wee therefore favouring the saide marchants and being desirous togive them all furtherance and expedic'on in their p'esent intendedvoiage of our esp'iall grace ce'ten knowledge and mere moc'onhave granted and by theis p'esents for our heires and successors doegrant unto the said governor and company of marchants tradynginto the East Indies that it shall and may bee lawfull for themtheir factors "and assignes in thys p'esent intended voiage which isprepared or in p'eparing for the second voiage into the said EastIndies to t'ansport out of this our realme of England all suchforreyn coyne or silver either Spanish or other forrein silver asthey have prepared p'cured or gotten or shall prepare p'cr'se orgett being already broughte or to be broughte from the parts beyondthe seas before the dep'ting of their shipps out of the river ofThames so as the wholl quantity of the coyne and monies by themto be t'ansported in this their p'esent intended voiage being thesecond voiage toward the said Indies does not exceed the saidevalue of twelve thousand pounds the same to be t'ansported in thesame kinde sort stamp or fashion as the said moneysis or shal bep'cured gotten or broughte into this realme of England and thatwithoute anie newe coyning or alte'ing of the said monies or aniepart thereof from the stampe which it beareth. Anie statuterestraint p'hibic'on in that behalf to the cont'ary in any wisenotwithstanding. In witness whereof, etc. Witness ourself atWestim' the xxiijth day of February."