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A32196	The capitulations and articles of peace between the Majesty of the King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c. and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire as they have been augmented and altered in the times of several ambassadors, and particularly as they have been renewed, augmented, and amplified at the city of Adrianople in the month of January 1661/2, by Heneage, Earl of Winchelsea, Ambassador Extraordinary from His Majesty : and also as they have been since renewed in the month of September 1675 : with divers additional articles and priviledges, by Sir John Finch, to Sultan Mahomet Han, the most puissant Prince and Emperour of the Turks.; Treaties, etc. Turkey, 1662 Jan.	England and Wales.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Mehmed IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1642-1693.; Turkey. Treaties, etc. England and Wales, 1662 Jan.	1679 (1679)	Wing C2931; ESTC R14085	22,568	44

Whitehall April 13. 1679. LET the following Capitulations made with the Grand Signor be Printed for the use of the Turkey-Company Jo. Cooke THE Capitulations AND ARTICLES OF PEACE BETWEEN The Majesty of the King of Great Britain France and Ireland c. AND The SULTAN of the Ottoman Empire As they have been augmented and altered in the times of several Ambassadors And particularly as they have been renewed augmented and amplified at the City of Adrianople in the Month of January 1661 2. by Heneage Earl of Winchelsea Ambassador Extraordinary from his Majesty And also as they have been since renewed in the Month of September 1675. with divers additional Articles and Priviledges by Sir John Finch Knight Ambassador in Ordinary from his Majesty to Sultan Mahomet Han the most puissant Prince and Emperour of the Turks LONDON Printed for J. S. MDCLXXIX The Articles of Peace c. ACcording to my Imperial Command let it be observed and let no Act be permitted contrary hereunto MAHOMET THE Command of this Sublime and Losty and Imperial Signature preserved and exalted by Divine Providence whose Triumph and Glory is renowned through all the World By the favour of the Nourisher of all things and mercy and grace of the merciful I that am the powerful Lord of Lords of the World whose Name is formidable upon Earth giver of all Crowns of the Universe Sultan Mahomet Han Son of Sultan Ibrahim Han Son of Sultan Ahmet Han Son of Sultan Mahomet Han Son of Sultan Murat Han Son of Sultan Selim Han Son of Sultan Suliman Han Son of Sultan Selim Han. To the glorious amongst the great Princes of Jesus reverenced by the high Potentates of the people of the Messiah sole Director of the important Affairs of the Nazarene Nation Lord of the limits of Decency and honour of Greatness and Fame Charles the Second King of England and Scotland that is of Great Brittain France and Ireland whose end and Enterprises may the Omnipotent God conclude with bliss and favour with the illumination of his holy will In times past the Queen of the aforesaid Kingdoms sent divers of her esteemed Gentlemen and Persons of Quality with Letters and Ships to this Imperial High Port the refuge of the Princes of the World and the retreat of the Kings of the whole Universe in the happy times of famous memory of my Ancestors now placed in Paradise whose Souls be replenished with Divine Mercy which Gentlemen and Presents were gratefully accepted making Declaration and offering in the Name of the said Queen an entire good Peace and pure Friendship and demanding that their Subjects might have leave to come from England into our Ports Our said Ancestors of happy memory did then grant their Imperial License and gave into the hands of the English Nation divers especial and Imperial Commands to the end that they might safely and securely come and go into these Dominions and in coming or returning either by Land or Sea in their way and passage that they should of no man be molested or hindered After which time in the days of our Grandfather Sultan Mahomet Han of famous memory unto whose Soul be granted Divine Absolution it being a-new desired That the Subjects Merchants and their Interpreters might freely and securely come Merchandize and Negotiate through all the parts of this Imperial Dominion and that such Capitulations and other Priviledges and Imperial Commands as had been granted unto the Nation of the Kings and Princes in Peace and Amity with this high Port as France Venice Poland and others might also be granted to the Subjects of the said Queen and all others coming under the English Banner in confirmation of which request were given and confirmed by our Ancestors of famous memory the Imperial Capitulations and Priviledges succeeding to say It is commanded c. Our Ships may trade in all parts c. I. First That the said Nation and the English Merchants and any other Nation or Merchants which are or shall come under the English Banner and Protection with their Ships small and great Merchandize Faculties and all other their Goods may always pass safe in our Seas and freely and in all security may come and go into any part of the Imperial limits of our Dominions in such sort that neither any of the Nation their Goods and Faculties shall receive any hindrance or molestation from any person whatsoever Travel freely II. The said Nation shall and may in like manner freely and securely come and go by Land through all the Imperial Limits of our Dominions so that neither to their Persons Beasts Goods or Faculties shall any trouble or Impediment be given nor any injury be done unto them but they shall always at their own pleasures safely and securely traffick in all parts of our Dominions The same III. And if it happen that any of the said Nation coming into our Dominions by Land or passing into any other Country shall be stayed or arrested by any of our Ministers such persons shall be set free and at liberty and afterwards shall receive no hinderance in his Journey IV. All English Ships or Vessels small or great shall and may at any time safely and securely come and harbour in any of the Scales and Ports of our Dominions and likewise may from thence depart at their pleasure without detention or hindrance of any man Distress of Ships V. And if it shall happen that any English Vessel great or small fall into any misfortune danger of Sea or any other necessity all the Vessels as well Imperial as belonging to private men that shall be near or present as also all others that inhabit the Seas shall give them help and succour and being come into our Ports or Scales they shall freely stay in them as long as they please and for their money provide for them of all necessaries and Provision Freedom to take Provisions and may take Water without the let or hindrance of any man VI. And if it shall happen that any of their Ships shall have suffered Shipwrack Cases of Shipwrack or been broken or in distress shall be cast upon any Coast of our Dominions in which case all Beglarbegs Cadees Governours Ministers and other our Slaves shall give them all assistance succour and help and whatsoever Goods and Faculties shall be saved or recovered in the said Ships shall be restored to the English and if they shall be restored to the of their Goods and Faculties shall be stole or taken away our said Ministers with all diligence shall make sufficient search and examination to find out and recover the Goods and restore them to the English The English and their Dependants to travel freely VII The English Merchants Interpreters Brokers and all other Subjects of that Nation whether by Sea or Land may freely and safely come and go in all the Ports of our Dominions or returning into their own Country all our Beglerbegs Ministers Governours and other

Banner there shall not be demanded nor gathered one Asper nor any Money in the name of Imposition Hassapie or Compositions for Flesh for the Janizaries XXXIII There having been in times past a difference between the Embassadour of the Queen of England and the French Embassadour both resident in our Port about the Merchants of the Dutch Nation both which Embassadours sent their Petitions to our Imperial Stirrup and made request that the said Dutch Merchants coming into our Dominions should pass under their Banner which Request of both Embassadours was granted under our Imperial Seal notwithstanding Sinan Bassa the Son of Cigala Captain of the Sea now deceased as Admiral and practised in Maritime cases having advised the Imperial Majesty that it was fit and convenient that the Dutch Nation should be assigned to the Protection of the Embassadour of England and that it should be so written in their Capitulations which Opinion being by all the Viziers approved by Express Order and Imperial Authority it was commanded that the Dutch Merchants of the Provinces of Holland Zealand Freezeland and Gelderland that is the Merchants of those four Provinces trading in our Dominions shall always come under the Banner of the Queen of England as all other English do and that of all the Goods and Merchandize which they shall or do import or export All Straugers to come under the English Protection to and from our Dominions in their Vessels they shall pay the Duties of Consulage and all other Duties to the Embassadour or Consul of the Queen of England and that never hereafter the French Embassadour or Consul shall insinuate nor intermeddle herein And accordingly it was commanded that for the time to come it should be ruled and observed according to this present Capitulation After which there being arrived an other Embassadour at this High Port sent from the King of England with Letters and Presents which were most acceptable the said Embassadour did make request that certain other necessary Articles should be added and written in the Imperial Capitulations of which the first was As in times past in the days of one of our Fore-fathers of famous memory Sultan Soliman Han there was granted a certain Capitulation and Priviledge that the Merchants of the Spanish Nation Portugal Ancona Sevilla Florence Catalonia and all sorts of Dutchmen and other Merchant-Strangers might safely and securely go and come through all the places of our Dominions and trade and traffick granting unto them moreover that in any part of our Empire they might establish their Consuls But it being that every Nation apart was not able to defray the Charges and Maintenance of a Consul it was then left to their will and choice to come under the Banner of such Embassadour or Consul as should best like them provided that it were an Embassadour or Consul of a King in Peace and Amity with our High Port upon which Grant and other Priviledges given them there were often granted divers Imperial Commands and Constitutions being so desired by Merchant-Strangers who of their own will elected to trade under the Banner and Protection of the Embassadour and Consul of the King of England And whilest in all Scales and Ports in these parts they had refuge to the Banner and Protection of the English Consuls It seemeth that the French Embassadour by some means having a new gotten into their Capitulations that the said Merchant-Strangers should come under their Banner did endeavour to force them in all Scales to their Protection for which cause the Controversie was again renewed and referred to our Divan or Great Council which after a due Examination and a new Election permitted to the will and choice of the said Merchants they again did desire to be under the Protection of the Embassadour of the King of England notwithstanding it being made known to the Imperial Port that as yet the French Embassadour did not desire to molest the said Merchants nor to force them under his Protection the first Article written in the French Capitulations that the Merchants-Strangers should come under their Protection was by the Imperial Command made void and annulled And to the end that according to the ancient Custom of the said Merchant-Strangers they should always come under the Banner and Protection of the Embassadour or Consuls of England and that never hereafter they should be vexed or troubled by the French Embassadour in this point the said Embassadours of his Majesty of England having desired that this particular should be written and inrolled in this new Imperial Capitulation this present Article was accordingly inserted and by the Imperial Authority it is commanded that for ever in time to come Merchants of the said Princes in the mentioned form and according to this Imperial Command in their hand shall always be under the Banner and Protection of the Embassadour and Consuls of England XXXIV There shall never be permitted or granted any Imperial Commands contrary to the Tenour and Articles of this Imperial Command or Capitulation No Imperial Command contrary to these Articles to be granted nor in prejudice of this our Peace and Amity but in such occasion the cause shall first be certified to the Embassadour of England residing at the Port to the end that he may answer and object any scandalous action or other pretence which might infringe the Peace and League For enforcing Consulage XXXV The English Merchants of all the Merchandize which they shall bring or transport in their Ships having paid the Custom they shall also pay the Right of Consulage to the English Embassadour or Consul XXXVI The English Merchants and all under their Banner shall and may safely throughout our Dominion trade buy sell except only Commodities prohibited all sorts of Merchandize likewise either by Land or Sea they may go and traffick Permission to trade in all parts of the Turks Dominions or by the way of the River Tanais in Moscovia or by Russia and from thence may bring their Merchandize into our Empire also to and from Persia they may go and trade and through all that part newly by us conquered and through those Confines without the impediment or molestation of any of our Ministers and they shall pay the Custom and other Duties of that Country and nothing more XXXVII The English Merchants and all under their Banner Three per cent Custom shall and may safely and freely trade and negotiate in Aleppo Cairo Scio Smyrna and in all parts of our Dominions and according to our ancient Customs of all their Merchandize they shall pay three in the hundred for Custom and nothing more Vessels forced by weather XXXVIII The English Ships which shall come to this our City of Constantinople if by fortune of Seas or ill weather they shall be forced to Coffa or to such like Port as long as the English will not unlade and sell their own Merchandize and Goods no man shall enforce them nor give them any

Officers Captains by Sea of Ships and others whomsoever our Slaves and Subjects we command that none of them do or shall lay hands upon their persons or Faculties or upon any pretence shall do them any hinderance or injury One English man not to answer for the Debt of another unless he be his Surety by Hoget VIII If any English man either for his own Debt or for Surety-ship shall absent himself or make escape away or shall be bankerupt the Creditor shall only pretend his Debt upon his own Debtor and not of any other English and if the Creditor have not authentick Hoget or Bill of Surety-ship made by an English man he shall not pretend his Debt of any other English man IX In all Causes Businesses and Occasions which shall occur between the said Nation their Merchants Interpreters and Brokers or Servants and any other whatsoever that is to say In felling or buying in paying or receiving in giving or taking security or Pledge Debt or Credit and all other such things which appertain to the Ministers of the Law and Justice In all businesses nothing of force without Hoget they may always if they please in such occasions go to the Caddee who is the Judge of the Law and there make a Hoget or publick Authentick Act with Witness and Register the same and take a Copy of the same to keep by them to the end that if in the future any difference or pretence shall arise between the said Parties they may both have a recourse to the said Hoget and Act. And when the pretence shall be conformable to the tenor of the Hoget Registred then it shall be accordingly thereunto observed And if the Plaintiff hath not in his hands any such Authentick Hoget but only bringeth partial Witness which makes Cavils or Pretences our Ministers shall not give ear to them but observe the written authentick Hoget No plea to be made against an English man without knowledge of the Embassad Or Consul X. And if any one within our Dominions shall accuse any English man to have done him wrong and shall therefore raise any pretence upon him by violent or partial Witness our Ministers shall not give car unto them nor accept them but the Cause shall be advised to the Embassadour or Consul Resident of the English Nation to the end that the business may be decided with his knowledge and in his presence that the English may always have recourse to their defence and protection XI If any English man having committed an offence shall make his escape No English man to be molested for another without being pledge or absent himself no other English man not being pledge shall be taken or molested for him English men not to be Slaves XII All English men or Subjects of England which be found Slaves in our state or shall be demanded by the Embassadour or Consul the cause shall be duly examined and such persons as are found truly to be Subjects of England shall be set free and delivered to the Embassadour or Consul No Harach demanded XIII All English-men and all other Subjects of the Crown of England which shall dwell or reside in our Dominions whether they be married or single may buy sell and traffick and of them shall no Harach or Head-money be demanded The Embassadour 's power to constitute Consuls XIV The English Embassadour Resident in Aleppo Alexandria Tripoli of Suria or Tunis Algier Tripoli of Barbary in Smyrna the Ports of Cairo or any other parts of our Dominions may at their pleasure establish their Consuls and in like manner remove them or change and appoint others in their places and none of our Ministers shall oppose or refuse to accept them No Process without the Interpreter XV. In all Causes concerning Law and Justice between the English Nation and any other in the absence of their Interpreters the Judges nor any other ther of our Ministers shall not proceed to give Sentence The Turks not to meddle in differences between the English XVI If there happen any Controversie amongst themselves the decision thereof shall be wholly left to their own Embassadour or Consul according to their own Right and Laws and with no such Causes our Ministers shall intermeddle Our Ships not to be detained at Sea by the Turks Armada XVII Our Armada of Gallies Ships or any other Vessels of our Empire which at Sea meet or find any English Ship they shall not do them nor suffer to be done to them the least injury or trouble nor shall they stay them demand pretend or take any thing from them but shall salute and shew good and mutual Friendship the one to the other without offence All Priviledges granted to other Nations granted also to the English XVIII All those particular Priviledges and Capitulations which in former times have been granted to the French Venetians or any other Christian Nation whose King is in Peace and Friendship with this Port in like manner the same were granted and given to the said English Nation to the end that in time to come the Tenour of this our Imperial Capitulations may be always observed by all men and that none may in any manner upon any pretence presume to contradict or violate it XIX If the Pyrates or Levents who infest the Seas with their Frigates Against Turkish Pyrates shall be found to have taken any English Vessel or to have robbed or spoiled their Goods and Faculties Also if it shall be found that in any of our Dominions any shall have violently taken Goods of any English Man our Ministers shall with all diligence seek out such Offenders and severely punish them and cause that all such Goods Ships Moneys and whatsoever hath been taken away from the English Nation shall be presently justly and absolutely restored to them XX. All our Beglerbegs Begs Captains Masters of Imperial Ships and other private Judges Governours Customers Farmers and all our Ministers Subjects and Slaves shall always obey and keep the Tenour of these our Sworn Capitulations and shall with all observance respect the Friendship and good Correspondence established on both Parties every one in particular taking especial care not to commit any Act contrary thereunto And as long as the said Queen of England according to this present Agreement of sincere Friendship and good Correspondence shall show her self and remain with us in Peace Friendship and League firm constant and sincere We do promise also on our parts reciprocally that this Peace Friendship Articles Capitulations and Correspondence in the fore-written form shall be for ever of us maintained observed and respected and of no man many part thereof shall be contradicted or infringed All which above-mentioned Articles of Peace and Friendship were concluded signed and an Imperial Capitulation granted and confirmed by our Ancestors of happy Memory Since which time his Majesty of England James deceased in the time of our Grand-Father

trouble or annoyance but in all places of danger the Caddees or other of our Ministers shall always protect and defend the said English Ships Men and Goods that no damage may come unto them and with their Money may buy Victuals and other necessaries and desiring also with their Money to hire Carts or Vessels which before were not hired by any other to transport their Goods from place to place no man shall do them any hinderance or trouble whatsoever XXXIX The English Nation of all the Merchandize which in their Ships shall be brought to Constantinople Goods not landed to pay no Custom or to any other part of our Dominions which they shall not desire of their own accord to land or sell of such Goods there shall not be demanded or taken any Custom at arrival at any Port and having landed their Merchandize and paid their Customs and other Duties they may quietly and safely depart without the molestation of any man XL. In regard English Ships coming into our Dominions do use oftentimes to touch in some part of Africa and there take in Pilgrims and Mahometan Passengers to transport them to Alexandria Idem and arriving at that Port it seemeth that the Customers and other Officers do pretend to take Custom of all Goods which are found in their Ships before the Merchants are willing to land any by occasion of which molestation they have forborn to transport any Pilgrim And in like manner their Ships which come to Constantinople and carry divers Merchandize to transport part thereof to other places the Customers and Farmers would enforce to land and pretend to take Custom thereof Wherefore we do command that all the English Ships which with their Merchandize shall come into this Port of Constantinople Alexandria Tripoli of Suria Scanderoon or into any Port whatsoever of our Empire according to use they shall pay only Custom of such Goods which with their own will they shall design to sell and such other Merchandize as they discharge not from their Ships willingly our Customer shall not demand nor take Custom nor other Duties but they may transport them whithersoever they please XLI And if it shall happen that any of the said English Nation or any under their Banner Matters of Man-slaughter shall commit Man-slaughter Bloodshed or any other like of fence or that there shall happen any cause appertaining to the Law or Justice until the Embassadour or Consul shall be present to examine the Cause the Judges nor other Ministers shall not decide nor give any sentence but such controversie shall always be declared in the presence of the Embassadour or Consul to the end that no man be judged or condemned contrary to the Law and the Capitulations XLII Whereas it is written in the Imperial Capitulations that the Goods landed out of any English Ship which shall come into our Dominions and pay Custom ought also to pay the duty of Consulage to the English Embassadour or Consul Forreigners Consulage to be paid it seemeth that divers Mahometan Merchants Sciots and other Merchants in Peace and Amity with this Imperial Port and other Merchant-Strangers do deny and refuse to pay the right of Consulage wherefore it is commanded that all the Merchandize which shall be laden upon their Ships and have paid custom be they goods of whomsoever according to ancient Imperial Capitulations they shall pay the right of Consulage to the Embassadour or Consul of England without any contradiction XLIII That English Merchants which trade at Aleppo and those under their Banner Silk to pay the Custom as Venetians and French of all the Silk which they shall buy and lade upon their Ships shall pay the Custom and other Duties as the French and Venetian Merchants do pay and not one Asper or Farthing more XLIV As the Embassadours of the King of England which shall be Resident in this Imperial Court are the Representatives and Commissioners of the Person of his Majesty so the Interpreters are to be esteemed the Commissioners of the Embassadour therefore for such matter as the Interpreters shall translate or speak in the name Interpreters to have license to speak the sense of the Embassadour or Consul or by the order of the Embassadour it being found that that which they have translated to be according to the will and order of the Embassadour or Consul they shall be always free from any imputation or punishment And in case they shall commit any offence Drugger-men dying c. our Ministers shall not put any of the said Interpreters in Prison nor beat them without knowledge of the Embassadour or Consul In case any of the English Interpreters shall die if he be an English-man all his Goods or Faculties shall be possessed by the Embassadour or Consul of England but if he shall be a Subject of our Dominion they shall be consigned to his next Heir and having no Heir they shall be taken into our Exchequer And as in this particular so also in all other the above-mentioned Articles and Priviledges granted by our Forefathers of happy memory it is expresly commanded and ordained That all our Slaves shall ever obey and observe this Imperial Capitulation and that the Peace and Amity shall be respected and maintained without any violation whatsoever No command valid against the Capitulations XLV Since which time of our Forefathers of famous memory and the grant of these above-mentioned Capitulations Articles and Establishment of Peace and Amity the said King of England having in the time of our Grand-father of happy memory Sultan Mahomet Han sent one his well desired Ambassador a person of Quality to this high Port to confirm this Peace Articles and Capitulations which Ambassadour did declare That oftentimes there were to divers persons Imperial Commands granted surreptitiously procured contrary to the tenour and Articles of the Imperial Capitulations which being without our knowledge presented to our Judges and Governours and the dates of such Commands being more fresh than those of our Imperial Capitulations the Judges and Ministers do put in execution the private Commands prejudicial and contrary to these Imperial To the end therefore that for the time to come such Commands shall not be accepted of any but that the imperial Capitulations might be always observed and maintained according to the sincere meaning the said Ambassador demonstrating the sincerity of his Majesty and his request herein to our Imperial knowledge which was most acceptable In conformity thereunto it was expresly ordered That all such Commands which already have been or shall hereafter be granted which are or shall be repugnant to the tenour of this Imperial Capitulation whatsoever such Commands shall be when presented before our Caddees or other Ministers should never be accepted or put into execution but that always the tenour of the Imperial Capitulations shall be observed And whosoever shall present such Command contrary to the Capitulations Such commands to be taken away

to be paid twice Therefore for the time to come when the said Merchants shall desire to lade such Goods and it be true that they have already paid their Custome of such Merchandize they shall not demand any second or new Customes Provided that the laid Merchants do not mingle their Goods which have not paid Custome with those which have already paid Custome LII The English Merchants of all the Merchandize which they shall bring into our Dominions and of the Merchandize which they carry out of our Dominions as Silk Chamblets and other Goods having paid the Custome and not sold the Goods unto another And being afterwards to Ship it away for Scio Smyrna or any other Scale and the said Goods there arriving the Customers and Officers shall always accept of their Acquittances which they have in their hands and shall not take other Custome of their Merchandize LIII The English Merchants of all the Commodities which they shall bring to Constantinople or to any other Port of our Dominions and of all such as they shall transport Mestaria to be paid at Galata the Mestaragi of Galata and Constantinople shall take their Mestaria or Brokidge according to the antient Canon and usance that is of such Merchandize as of old Custome was wont to pay it of such they shall only take Mestaria but of such Merchandize as was not antiently accustomed to pay it shall not be taken Mestaria contrary to the antient Canon Farther upon the English Merchandize there shall not be made or laid any Impositions or other Duties No Duties to be raised above the accustomed usance nor from the said Nation shall not be taken one Asper more which shall be contrary to the antient Canon and accustomed usance LIV. The English Nation shall and may freely come into all the Ports of our Dominions to Negotiate and bring in Cloth Kersie Spice Tin Lead and all other Merchandize and no man shall do them any hinderance or molestation In like manner except only Goods prohibited they shall and may buy and export all sort of Merchandize without the prohibition or molestation of any man and the Customers and other Officers the said Nation having paid their Custome according to this Imperial Capitulation and the antient use shall not demand of them any thing more In the time of the happy memory of my Uncle Sultan Murat Han the King of England sent his Embassador Sir Sackville Crow Baronet with his Present and Letter which was received in good part and the time of his Embassie being expired Sir Thomas Bendish arrived to reside at the Port with his Present and courteous Letter the which was in like manner well accepted And the said Embassador having tendered the Imperial Capitulations formerly granted that according to the antient Canon they might be renewed It is hereby again commanded that all the points and particular Articles therein be observed and maintained No Goods to be forced violently out of the Ships LV. And because contrary to the fence and tenure of them the Ships of the English Merchants before they arrive at the Scale several Officers did go upon them and violently force out of the Ships the Goods of the Merchants taking away the choice of them without agreeing for the Price or making any account with the Owners Abuses to be redressed in Customes LVI And farthermore the said Merchants having once payed the Custome for their Goods at the Custome-house and being desirous to transport the same Goods into another Scale the Customers did hinder and detain them until he received another second Custome for them LVII And whereas in the Imperial Capitulations it is expressed that in all the differences and Suits with the English Nation our Magistrates are not to hear nor decide the Cause unless their Embassador or Consul be there present In hearing of Law Suits Of late our Judges without the knowledg of their Embassador have condemned imprisoned and taken Presents from the English Nation which is a great wrong done to them No Customes upon Mony LVIII Also whereas in the Imperial Capitulations it is ordered that the Customers shall not take any Custome for such Gold and Dollars as by the English Nation shall be brought in or carried out of Our Imperial Dominions and that the Merchants are to give only three per cent for the Custome of their Goods and no more the Customers notwithstanding do pretend to take Custom for their Chequeens and Dollars and to take more Custom then their due for their Raw Silks which they buy Raw Silks and of the Goods which they land at Scanderoone to carry up to Aleppo they demand six per cent which unjust exactions have been heretofore rectified and redressed with an express Hattersheriffe But being now again informed that the said English Merchants are as before wronged by reason that the Customers do value and estimate the Goods of the English Merchants more then they are worth and though the Customers are to have but three per cent yet by an over valuation of the Goods they take from them six per cent And the Servants of the Custom-house under pretence of small Duties and Expences wrongfully take great sums of Mony from them A greater number of Guardians not to be put aboard our Ships then usuall And a greater number of Waiters being put aboard the English Ships then heretofore have been used the charges thereof are a great expence to the Merchants and Masters of Ships that sustain it To all which we being requested for a redress do Command that when the Customers do set great values upon their Goods the Merchant offering to them according to the rate of three per cent in specie of the same Goods the Customers shall not refuse but accept the same And being desired by the English Embassador that the above specified abuses and injustice should be rectified We do Command that contrary to the Imperial Capitulations the English Merchants be neither in the foregoing particulars nor in any other manner troubled nor their Priviledges unjustly infringed The Embassador of the King of Great Britain Sir Heneage Finch Knight Earl of Winchilsea Viscount Maidston Baron Fitzherbert of Eastwell Lord of the Royal Mannor of Wye and Lieutenant of the County of Kent and City of Canterbury whose end may it terminate with bliss did arrive with his Presents and with all sincerity and affection was accompanied with Letters amply expressing the good friendship and correspondence and that abovesaid Embassador hath presented the Capitulations that they might be renewed according to the Canon And that some Articles of great consideration which were before in the Capitulations may be more punctually observed the said Embassador did desine that they might be again renewed and more plainly expressed in the Imperial Capitulations His request was graciously accepted one of which Points is this LIX That the Gallies and other Vessels of the Imperial Fleet departing the Dominions of

the Grand Signor and meeting on the Sea with the Ships of England they shall in no wise give them molestation nor detain them in their Voyage nor take from them any thing whatsoever but ought always to shew to one another good friendship without doing the least damage And it being thus declared in the Imperial Capitulations The Pyrates of Barbary not to search our Ships for Strangers Goods Beyes and Captains who Sail upon the Seas and those of Algier Tunis and Tripoli meeting English Ships which Sail from one Port to another ought not to take from them any Mony or goods upon pretence that their Ships transport Enemies Goods and thereupon search them and with this colour molest and detain them from prosecution of their Voyage so that only at the mouth of the Castles and in the Ports where the Searchers belonging to the Customs usually come aboard their Goods shall be examined but on the Sea they shall be lyable to no farther search or inquisition LX. And contrary to the Articles of the Imperial Capitulations the Goods of the English Nation ought to receive no molestation having once paid the Custom Customs being paid the Customer not to deny the Teschere nor shall the Customers deny to give the Teschere or Certificate that the Custom is paid for upon complaint hereof We strictly Command that the aforesaid Customers do not defer immediately upon demand to give the Teschere or Certificate A second Custom not to be demanded LXI And the Custome being once paid of any sort of Merchandize not sold in that Port which is to be transported to another Scale entire credit shall be given to the Teschere and a second Custom shall not be so much as farther pretended LXII In Aleppo Cairo and other parts of the Imperial Dominions the English Merchants and their Servants may freely and frankly trade All Goods in English Ships as well as those of the growth and Manufacture of England not to pay above three per cent Custom and for all their Goods and Merchandize pay only three per Cent. according to the former Custom and the Imperial Capitulations whether the Goods be brought by Sea or by Land And though the Customers and Farmers upon the arrival of the Goods at the Scale to give molestation and trouble to the English Nation pretend that the Goods of the growth and manufacture of England ought only to pay three per Cent. but Goods brought from Venice and other places are obliged to pay more and with this colour and pretence occasion suits and troubles to the English wherefore in this point let the Imperial Capitulations be observed as in former times and Our Officers ought in no wise to permit the contrary hereunto Without Pledge or Suretyship one Englishman not to answer for another LXIII An Englishman becoming indebted or having made himself Pledge for another who is either failed or run away the Debt ought to be demanded of the Debtor And if the Creditor have no Hoget that such an one according to the Law hath made himself Pledge and security the Debt shall not be demanded of the other which Article is already declared in the Capitulations Bill of Exchange not accepted cannot be enforced LXIV Whereas sometimes an Englishman living in a Country to free himself from a Debt draws a Bill of Exchange upon another Englishman who hath no Effects of his in his hands and the person to whom the Mony is payable being a man of Power and Authority brings his Bill and contrary to the Law and the Capitulations demands and forces payment of the Bill In which case the Merchant accepting the Bill shall be obliged to satisfie it but not accepting of it he shall be lyable to no farther trouble Drugermen free of all Angaria and the Cassam LXV And the Interpreters of the Embassador of England being free by the Articles declared in the antient Capitulations of all Angaria or Taxes by vertue also of this present Article when any of the said Interpreters die their Goods or Estate shall not be subject to the Custom but shall be devided amongst the Creditors and Heirs LXVI And the King of England being a true Friend to this Our happy Port Ten of the Embassadors Servants free of Harach To his Embassador who resides here ten Servants of what Nation soever shall be allowed free from Harach or Taxes or molestation of any man LXVII An Englishman turning Mahometan and having Goods or Estate in his hands belonging to his English Principals The Estate of Principals the hand of a Renegado to be delivered to the Embassador or Consul those goods or Estate shall be delivered into the hands of the Embassador or Consul that they may convey and make them good to the true Owners The late Embassadour of the King of England who resided in our high Port being dead Sir John Finch Knight a prudent man and one of the Council of Foreign Trade is appointed to succeed him in the Charge of the Embassy And notice being given to our Noble Presence that the said Embassadour was arrived with the Royal Letters and the usual Presents they were acceptable to us And the aforesaid Embassador having made known to us that in the Capitulations already granted there were several expressions so full of ambiguity that they needed further explication and to this end having requested of us in the behalf of the King his Master that the Capitulations might be renewed and that such Explications and additional Articles as were necessary might be added to them the Request of the said Ambassador being made known to us We have consented to it And We do command and be it commanded that the Additions desired be added to the former Capitulations of which one is I. The Nisani Sheriff that is the Imperial Command upon which was put the Hattersheriff that is the Hand of the Emperour Sultan Ibrahim Han whose Soul rest in glory in the year 1053. which Command declares that anciently the English Ships that came to Scanderoon did pay for every Cloth of London for the Custom of Scanderoon forty Para's and for a piece of Kersey six Para's and for every Bundle of Cony-Skins six Para's and for Tin and Lead for every Quintal of Damascus or Cantaro fifty seven Para's and a half for Custom which Goods afterwards arriving in Aleppo did pay for the Custom of Aleppo for every Cloth of London eight Para's for a Piece of Kersey eight Para's and one sixth for every Bundle of Cony-Skins eight Para's and one sixth for Tin and Lead for every Battman of Aleppo one Para for Custom And the said Nation buying Goods transporting them for what they bought in Aleppo and exported did pay for raw Cloth of Linen or Chilis for Cordovans for Hora sani Hindi for every Bale of each two Dollars and a half and for every Bale of Cotton Yarn a Dollar and a quarter and for a Bale of Gauls a