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A76387	The remonstrance, or manifest of Sr Thomas Bendysh, Baronet, sent ambassador from King Charles of blessed memory, to the Grand Seignior in Constantinople, anno, 1647 To inform the world, and to remember the governour and Company of Merchants trading into the Levant Seas, of the services he hath done them, and this nation, there; which by their carriage towards him, many of them seem to have forgotten.	Bendish, Thomas, Sir, d. ca. 1674.	1665 (1665)	Wing B1867aA; ESTC R232482	6,532	15

with the rest they have wholly forgot that I reduced the annual expences of the Port of Constantinople from 25. and 30000. Dollers which it was at before my time to 20000. Dollers per annum onely which of it self may sufficiently answer those vast and unjust pretences they make upon me for if their expences in the general have by my frugality for them been made less by many thousands of Pounds then what they were before my time how is it possible or from whence can it arise that I should wrong them in any part of their Estate Moreover had I really done them any kind of injury how untruly did their own mouths assure his Sacred Majesty of my honest and just dealings with them when they for that Cause so earnestly petitioned Him for my longer stay in Turkie Yet what honesty so upright or reputation so cleer that may not be abused by such as neither regard their words examine their Consciences nor value their expences which they impose on every trading Member of their Company how averse soever he be to their proceedings What I did in right of the Kings Majesty by whose onely Commission and in whose Name I resided there without accepting any Commission or Authority from any of those usurping Powers then in England and how farr I insisted to support his Majesties Honour and Interest in Turkie during my Negotiation I shall not reckon among my Services done to the Company being lead to those performances by the more powerfull obligation of my duty and allegiance and not from any other respects whatsoever which were but secundary and subservient neither was it then looked upon by them as any service at all but rather the contrary when with the great expence of my private Estate and Purse I prevailed so farr with some of the Ministers of those usurping Powers as to prevent the sending of two or three persons to Constantinople with Oliver's Commission whom the Company had chosen in their Courts to supplant me Likewise I did oppose and dismiss from Constantinople one called Major Lawrence whom they sent thither with the like Commission to supersede and make null that of his Majesties And I have no slender grounds to believe that the true and secret cause of their so unjust prosecutions at this time is the revenge they meditate against me for those very actions But it sufficeth me that as against all their malicious darts I have the witness of a good Conscience within me so I hope I am able to make it appear to all the world without that I have in all my proceedings demean'd my self carefully honestly and uprightly towards them and not onely so but in some sort have superarrogated by augmenting their Privileges preserving their Estates and Persons from many threatning dangers and have saved and procured them through my care and pains many hundred thousand Dollers in their Purses having in the mean time worn out and consumed the best part of my time and strength without any advantage to my self or family To summ up all I found at my arrival that the swelling Torrent of Turkish Justice had in a manner drowned all their Interest of Trade and Commerce there to reduce which and to confine it within its proper Channel cost me neer seven years perpetual labour and pains with the expence of many thousand pounds extraordinary out of mine own Purse of which I never placed one penny to their Accompt and having by this means fortified the banks and so kept them for the space of seven years more from any such like inundation the Channel of their Privileges is now worn so deep and runs so cleer that it is a thing almost impossible the like should ever break out again After all which to be branded by them with the odious Character of a Trust-breaker and Confederate against them to be unjustly charged with conversion of their Treasure to my private and extravagant expences and to be violently prosecuted as their Debtor at the same time when upon a just and equal accompt they owe me beside what before mention'd above a thousand pounds for so much paid me short of their agreement with me in the weight and value of their Dollers and the result of all to be the murthering of my Name and Reputation thereby to render me contemptible and incapable of all future Trust and Imployment I appeal to all the World who have the least sense of Honour and Justice in them whether these are not injuries above all possibility of satisfaction and whether by so ignominious an ingratitude they do not loudly tell the World what recompence all those persons who shall hereafter receive the honour to be imploy'd by his Majesty in the same Negotiation must expect at their hands for all the Services they can or shall endeavour to do them FINIS LONDON Printed Anno 1665.

as so many Ciphers to make the accompt of their miseries the greater had not the providence of God directed me to a course no less desperate then their condition and made me therein successfull The Vizier as much incensed as the haughtiness and avarice of an enraged Barbarian could make him and therefore not at all to be dealt with The Grand Seignior himself inaccessible but by and through his means In this extremity of their condition what was now to be done but to make my publick Appeal unto the Gr. Seignior with fire upon our Ships a course as hazardous as it was rare and unusual But the honour of the King my Master under whose Commission I was the interest of the English Nation and in particular of the Turkie Company together with mine own Reputation lying at stake I made no difficulty to break through all considerations of danger and to make my Appeal against the Vizier in the form before mentioned Which to let pass the passages in the managery thereof lest I should be thought to glory in mine own actions took its desired effect and was the means of restoring the Factory in less then two days to the full height of their Privileges honour and estate and that in a greater splendour then ever they formerly enjoy'd them for thereupon the Ships were released from the Grand Seignior's service the Customs which before my time had been raised from three to six per Cent. were reduced again to three ten thousand Dollers were brought in ready mony into the Ships towards the satisfaction of those goods the Vizier had taken away and security given for what remain'd unpaid debts old and desperate due to the Company from Jews and others before my time were by the power of the Vizier who then saw himself indangered by the Appeal forced to be satisfied and all possible assurance given that we should be civilly treated in the future and that the Capitulations should be inviolably preserv'd And thus far they have been as as good as their words that from the day of their promise to the time I left Constantinople they never attempted to take by force any goods whatever either from our Ships or Merchants houses which before was usual And however the memory of this eminent Service pardon the expression comes to be obliterated yet as it pleased his late Majesty of ever blessed memory to own it in a Letter to me from the Isle of Wight and in his royal sense of my Service therein to honour that action with the title of a Discreet and stout behaviour so time was when this very Company who now blast my Reputation with so much violence and so little cause were not backward to acknowledge it in a Letter sent to their Factory in Constantinople Wherein their words were That they were onely sorry that their present condition was such as made them unable to remunerate my care according to my merit which yet they hoped they might in time be in a capacity to do Which how far they have been mindfull of I leave to the World to judge when I shall have inform'd them that to blot out the memory of this obligation which they have not honour enough to recompense they have unjustly loaded me with disgrace and in their malicious Bills exhibited against me in the Chancery have taxed me on Record with breach of Trust Confederacy against them and Conversion of their monies to my own use though they know themselves not able to make good one particle of that Charge or that I ever touch'd one penny of their money But this is not the only Service for which they have made me recompence in this coin they may please to call to mind that I not satisfy'd in having restored them by the means aforesaid to their old Privileges and therewith to their Estates their Ships Trade still went on obtaining new ones and strengthening the old To which end after the horrid murther committed upon his late Majesty that I might not in the least measure seem to comply with those execrable Usurpers I renew'd the Capitulations in the name of his present Majesty King Charles the second to the no small danger of my life the second time being for it accused in England of high Treason against the then pretended State and to those renewed Capitulations I procured the Grand Seignior's own hand called the Hatsheriff an honour and security never granted before nor since to any Christian Emperor King or State whatever in way of Trade and in the renewing of them I gain'd an addition of such Privileges as might any ways advantage the Trade or secure the Factories and in particular several clauses against the Customers of Aleppo for taking Customs upon moneys and raw Silk the abolishing of which exaction hath saved many thousand pounds in the Companies Purse It was by my means and negotiation that the Companies estate was discharg'd from a Fine laid upon it in Aleppo of 10000 l. It was by Gods blessing upon my endeavours that without expence to the Company the Grand Seignior was pacify'd touching that great affront put upon him by Blake in battering his Castles and sinking eight of his Ships in Farine a Harbor near Tunis for which otherwise he would no doubt have seized on the estate in the Countrey as formerly upon less provocation he hath done and as the Company then feared could not be prevented It was by my industry and with much labour and patience that I wrought out by degrees and obtain'd for them that advantageous Privilege whereof the Merchants of no Nation but ours have the benefit at this day viz. That no English man shall be condemned upon any pretence of debt laid upon him by the testimony either of Turks Jews or Christians but what he had himself acknowledg'd before a Cadde or Judge in writing By vertue of this Privilege I defended the Companies estates against all false pretences or Avaneas and especially at Smyrna against the pretence of 75000 l. sterling demanded of them by one Halillaga a Turk of great power with the Vizier because he was with his treasure together with 120 of the Grand Seignior's Subjects delivered up to the Venetians by a Commander of one of our Ships And in another case I satisfied the Grand Seignior's demand of above twenty thousand pounds more with a few rotten and decayed Goods and less then 4000 l. in money for certain provisions of his which one Ell another English Commander ran away with from Alexandria to Legorn Moreover by timely finding out and preventing a false pretence made by the Customer of Aleppo to the Bassa and by him recommended to the Vizier who had allow'd of it I saved the Factory there from an intended seizure upon all their estates under pretence of arrears of Customes many years due for Silk money Unto which I may justly add as not the least of those Services I did the Company in the time of my Negotiation which