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lord_n	earl_n	knight_n	viscount_n	13,366	5	11.8212	5	false

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