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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

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

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