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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

of happy memory Sultan Achmet Han having sent unto our Imperial Throne his Embassadours Letters and Presents which were most acceptable and desired that the already contracted Peace and Friendship and good Correspondence made with our Grand-fathers and the Capitulations Articles and Priviledges above-written should be again ratified and the said Peace and Frendship renewed farther requesting that certain Articles very necessary should to the same Capitulations be added The desire of his Majesty being declared in the Imperial Presence of our said Grand-Father Sultan Achmet Han was presently granted And he gave express Command and Order that the said Peace and Friendship should be renewed and fortified and the Ancient Capitulations and Priviledges confirmed and that the new desired Articles should be inserted and added to the Imperial Capitulations Granting farther to the English Nation all those Articles and farther Priviledges which were given and written in any Capitulations with other Nations Potentates or Kings in Peace and Amity with this Imperial Port And by this Imperial Command he gave order that these his Imperial Commands should be obeyed of all men and the Tenour of them duly observed The Articles which then were granted and added to the Capitulations were these following XXI That our Ministers shall not demand or take of the said English Nation any Custom No Custom to be taken on Moneys None to force change of Moneys or other Duties of all the Dollars and Chequeens they or an under their Banner shall bring in or transport from place to place or carry out of our Dominions and that neither Beglerbegs Begs Caddees Treasurers Mint-Masters or other shall take and demand either Dollars or Chequeens from the said Nation to change them into small Aspers nor shall give or do them any violence or trouble thereupon XXII The English Nation and all those that come under their Banner their Vessels small and great shall and may navigate traffick buy sell and abide in all parts of our Dominions No Ammunition to be carried in our Ships and excepting Arms Gun-powder and other such prohibited Commodities they may load and carry away in their Ships whatsoever of our Merchandizes at their own pleasure without the impeachment or trouble of any man and their Ships and Vessels may come safely and securely to Anchor at all times Provisions may be bought for our Ships and traffick at all times in every part of out Dominions and with their Money buy Victuals and all other things without any contradiction or hinderance of any man No Process to be made without presence of the Embassadour c. XXIII And if any difference shall happen with any of the said English Nation by Suit in Law or any other Controversie the Caddees or any other Ministers of our Justice shall not hear nor decide the Cause until the Embassadour Consul or Drugger-man of the said Nation shall be present Suit of Law above 4000 Aspers to be heard above XXIV All differences or Suits of Law depending with the said Nation which shall exceed the value 4000 Aspers shall always be heard and decided at our Imperial Port. No Consul to be imprisoned nor dismissed c. XXV The English Nations Consul or Resident in any Port of our Dominions being established by the Embassadour Resident for the English Nation our Ministers shall have no power to imprison or examine or seal up their Houses nor to dismiss or displace them from their Charge and Office but in case of any difference or Suit with the Consul there shall he made a Certificate to the Imperial Port to the end that the Embasladour may protect and answer for them The Goods of English-men dying not to Eschent c. XXVI When any English-man or other under their Banner shall die in our Dominions with their Goods or Faculties or any thing that belonged unto them our Escheators Caddees or other Ministers upon pretence they are Goods of the Dead without any Owner shall not meddle take or seize any part thereof but they shall always be consigned and remaining to such other English as the Deceas'd shall by his Testament assign and if he died intestate then the English Consul shall take and receive his Faculties and Goods and if there be no Consul the English Resident there shall take the Possession and in case there be neither Consul nor English the said Goods and Faculties whatsoever shall be received into the custody of the Caddee of that place and having advised the English Embassadour thereof the said Caddee shall resign all the said Goods unto such Persons as the Embassadour shall send with Commission to receive them XXVII All these Priviledges and other Liberties granted to the English Nation and those who come under their Protection by divers Imperial Commands whether before or after the date of these Imperial Capitulations shall be always obeyed and observed and shall always be understood and interpreted in favour of the English Nation according to the Tenour and true Contents thereof In eases of Death the Cadee not to meddle XXVIII Neither the Officer called the Cassam or Gatherer of the Caddees Duties in case of death nor the Caddee shall pretend or take of the said English Nation any kind of Tenths or Gasmets or Fee of Division No Janizary c. to be imposed on us without our consent XXIX The Embassadour of the King of England or Consul residing in our Dominion shall and may take into their service any Janizary or Interpreter at their own charge and choice and no Janizary nor other our Slaves shall put themselves or intermeddle with their service against their liking or consent XXX The Embassadour of his Majesty of England and Consul and the English Nation-residing in our Empire for the use of their own Persons and Families making Must or Wine in their own Houses none of our Ministers Caddees or Janizaries For making Wine shall molest or hinder them or demand any Duties or Money or do them any violence or impediment Customs paid in one Port are not to be demanded in another XXXI In the Port of Constantinople Aleppo Alexandria Scio Smyrna and in other parts of our Dominions the English Merchants having paid the Custom of their Merchandize according to the Tenour of the Imperial Capitulations no man shall molest or trouble or take from them any thing more and whatsoever Merchandize shall be loaden upon their Ships and brought in our Dominions and landed at any Scale they being desirous to lade it again and to transport it to any other Scale or Port the same Goods arriving in the second place and Scale and being there unladen neither the Customer nor Farmers nor any other our Officers shall pretend or take again any Customs or Gabels of the said Merchandize that the said Nation may always freely and securely trade and follow their business No Hassapie Duties XXXII Neither of the English Nation nor of any trading under their

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

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

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

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

they shall be taken from him and in no wise be of any force or validity In which time also on the part of our said Grand-father all the above-written Priviledges Articles and Capitulations were accepted and ratified and the peace amity and good correspondence anciently contracted was a-new of him confirmed and established XLVI In the time of the Inauguration of Sultan Osman Han in the Imperial and high Throne the King of England did again send a famous and Noble Gentleman his Ambassadour with Letters and Presents which were most acceptable And the said Ambassadour desiring in the Name of his King and Lord that the ancient Capitulation Articles and Contracts granted in the days of our Forefathers should be of him renewed and confirmed and the ancient peace and amity a-new fortified and established which his request was to the said Sultan Osman most acceptable And the ancient Capitulations Articles Priviledges herein written and confirmed and the long since contracted peace and amity by him promised and accepted XLVII After whom in like manner in the days of Sultan Osman Han the King of England having again sent unto this high Port his Ambassadour the Excellent and Honourable Sir Thomas Roe Knight with his Letters and Presents which were most acceptable and proffering in the Name of the King his Lord all good terms of friendship and good correspondence And desiring that the ancient Capitulations and all the Articles from his Ancestors and from himself formerly granted to the English Nation might be a-new confirmed and the peace and league long since between both Parties contracted and ratified and that some other Articles very necessary might be added to the Imperial Capitulations and divers others already granted might be renewed amended and in a better form explained which his request and demand was very acceptable unto him and in conformity thereunto the ancient Imperial Capitulations and all the Articles and other Priviledges in them often confirmed and the peace amity and good correspondence contracted in the times of his Ancestors Grand-father and Father and himself confirmed were again by Sultan Osman then ratified established promised and accepted whereupon by him there was express command given that for the time to come the tenour of his renewed Capitulations should be of every one observed and that all men should be careful and respectful to the said peace and friendship established and contracted on both parts and that no man should presume to violate or to do any act contrary thereunto which Ambassadour did often declare that the Caddees and other of our Ministers in many places and Provinces contrary to the Imperial Capitulations and will of the Imperial Majesty have imposed and laid divers taxes burdens and moneys upon the said English Nation and those under their Banner for which cause as it is above declared it being found necessary to make additions of some new Articles in the said Imperial Capitulation of which the said Ambassadour made declaration in Writing and presented the same to the Imperial Presence The said Sultan Osman Han with his Imperial Hand and Seal did presently give express order and command that in the time to come all those Articles and Priviledges which were already in the Imperial Capitulations and those Articles which now are therein by our order newly added shall be of all our Subjects and Slaves duly obey'd and observ'd according to the sincere meaning of this our Imperial Capitulations XLVIII In as much as it is publickly known That certain Pyrates of Tunis and Algier contrary to our Imperial Capitulations mind and will do take and rob in the Seas the Ships Merchandise and men Subjects to his Majesty of England and of other Kings and States in league with this our Imperial Port to the great dammage and injury of the said English Nation Against the Pyrates of Barbary We do command and by these Presents we do ordain that several Imperial Commands be given for the entire restitution of all Goods and Merchandise to the English Nation so taken away And that all such English as have been taken and made Slaves or imprisoned by the said Pyrates shall be immediately set free And after the date of this our Imperial Capitulations if it shall be known that the said Pyrates of Tunis and Algier shall rob them again and shall use and continue their outrages and will not restore their Goods and men we do command that the said Pyrates be not received into any Port of our Dominions especially into the Scales of Tunis Algier Modon or Coron Our Beglerbegs and other Ministers shall not suffer them to enter nor harbour nor receive them but the Beglerbegs Caddees or other Ministers shall persecute banish and punish them XLIX Being informed that in our Dominions many of our Customers and other Officers in Aleppo contrary to the Imperial Capitulations under colour of taking Custom and Rest upon Silk of the English Merchants have violently taken from the said Merchants a great sum of Money No Rest to be taken And whereas in the Imperial Capitulations it is written that for Silk which the English shall buy in Aleppo they shall pay as the French and Venetian Merchants do and no more Notwithstanding the said Customers besides the two and half per cent for Custome and Rest have taken from that Nation a great sum of Mony lately under Name of Rest wherefore We command that this Business shall be examined and that the said Mony be restored back and for the time to come the ancient Custome may be kept and that this Nation shall only pay as the French and Venetian do and that never be taken one Asper by name of such Imposition L Whereas the English Merchants Resident in Galata ordinarily buy divers Goods and Merchandize before they can Lade or send them away upon their Ships and do pay unto the Customers the Custome of the said Goods receiving a Bill The Discharge of one Customer a sufficient Acquittance against him that succeeds or Acquittance to have paid the same and after carry the same Merchandize to their own Ware-houses In the mean time before they can Load and send away the said Goods it happens that either the Customer dies or is removed from his Charge and the new Customers will not accept of the said Acquittances but pretend another Custome troubling and molesting of them many ways Wherefore We do Command That of all the Merchandize which they shall buy it appearing really that he hath paid once his Custome the Customer shall accept of the said Acquittances and shall not demand of the Merchant a second Custome LI. It being usual to buy in Angora Chamblets Mohairs Silks and other sorts of Merchandize which they transport to Constantinople and other places of our Dominions and pay their Customes taking Acquittances for the same and so put the Goods into their own Ware-houses And after being desirous to Ship them away the Customers do demand again the Custome No Custome