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england_n	authority_n	king_n	majesty_n	2,493	5	6.1772	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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.