MRP: C6/85/17 f. 1
C6/85/17 f. 1
Editiorial history
23/11/11, CSG: Made digital images
23/11/11, CSG: Started transcription
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Transcription
//14 X 6:br 1654//
//Hales//
//To the Right honoble the Lords Com:rs//
//for the great seale of England//
//XXXX Complayning sheweth unto yo:r Lord:pps yo.r Orato:r Gyles Davies of London Merchant That whereas yo:r Orato:r being heretofore resident att Gallata of Constantinople in Turkey beyond the seas as a Merchant and ffacto:r there and haveing//
//intercourse of Trade and Commerce w:th Nathaniell Barnardiston and Samuell Barnardiston of London Merchants heretofore resideing att Smyrna in Turkey aforesaid they the said Nathaniell and Samuell Barnardiston haveing//
//ioyned themselves in Company and haveing about the month of June one Thousand sixe hundred fforty sixe consigned unto yo:r Orato:r Two and Twenty Bayles of Venice paper and haveing also in or about the month of September one//
//Thousand sixe hundred fforty sixe consigned unto yo:r Orato:r at Constantinople aforesaid for their owne Accompt ??One case of Venice silkes did then by their Letter and severall other Letters and order and Comission unto yo:r Orato:r to sell the//
//said paper and silkes soe consigned unto him at the price currant for ready money w:ch said paper and silkes soe consigned yo:r Orato:r Accordingly received at Gallata of Constantinople for the Custome whereof and other charges in and a//
//bout the receivinge of the same yo.r Orato:r expended severall summes of mony soe that there is due unto yo:r Orato:r for the said charges and for pvision belonging
//& innety & XXX XX XXXX being one hundred thirty ffower pounds and sixteene shillings sterling mony or thereabouts As in and by the Accompt hereunto Annexed w:ch yo:r Orato:r humbly prayeth may bee taken
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