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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

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