Addenda, James 1 - Volume 37: April 1605

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1872.

'Addenda, James 1 - Volume 37: April 1605', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda 1580-1625, (London, 1872) pp. 460. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1580-1625/p460 [accessed 19 April 2024]

April 1605



April 16. Greenwich.	31. The King to Wm. Garway and 12 other Levant merchants. We of late wrote requiring you and other merchants residing in London and other ports of this realm to meet in London, to resolve how the Levant trade may be reduced to such a government that it may be lawful to as many of our subjects as are disposed to trade into the Levant seas, contributing for support of the trade.
	We expressed our meaning to be principally to provide for the future state of the trade, having already eased you of the company of great sums due to us in respect of our late imposition. As we understand there can be no convenient settling of the trade until the debts and arrears of the old trade are cleared, or some good order taken therein,—which are things only belonging to you of the former company, and not to be dealt in by others who are strangers thereto,—we command you to see upon whom the debts and arrears ought to be laid.
	If you find any impediment whereby you cannot proceed to clearing the former state of the trade, we require you to certify it to our Council, that some further order may be taken therein, whereby our purpose of enlarging the general liberty of the said trade of the Levant may be better and more speedily effected. [2½ pages, copy.]
April 27. Dorset House.	32. Lord Treasurer Dorset to Sir Thos. Lake. Return by the bearer Sir Pexall Brocas' petitions to the King and myself, as it is thought fit to adopt another course in that business.
	P.S.—Also send me back my letter. [⅓ page.]
April 29. Christ's College, Cambridge.	33. Certificate by Dr. Edw. Barwell, Master, and 11 fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge, to the learning, piety, and high probity of John Fish, M.A., seven years a student in the college. [1 page.]