"ملخّص يحتوي على معلومات بشأن الاتصال الأول لشركة الهند الشرقية مع الجزيرة العربية التركية، طالما أمكن تتبع ذلك من سجلات حكومة بومباي، بالإضافة إلى أسماء العديد من المقيمين البريطانيين والوكلاء السياسيين الذين عُينوا في بغداد والبصرة في الفترة بين ١٦٤٦ و ١٨٤٦ ميلادي، وبمرافقة معلومات أخرى" [و‎‎٩‎٢] (٢٢٦/١٨٧)

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we command that this business shall be examined, and that the said
money be restored back, and for the time to come the ancient custom
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 pay
The discharge ef one eustomer » divers goods and merohandize before
sufficient acquittance against him that they can lade or send them away upon
succeeds. their ships, and do pay unto the custo
mers the custom of the said goods, receiving a bill or acquittance to have
paid the same, and after carry the same merchandize to their own ware
houses, in the meantime 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 acquittance,
but pretend another custom, troubling and molesting them many ways,
wherefore we command that of all the merchandize which they shall buy,
it appearing really that he hath paid once his custom, the customer shall
accept of the said acquittance and shall not demand of the merchant a
second custom.
LI.
It being usual to buy in Augora camblets, Mohario silks and other
sorts of merchandize which they trans-
No custom to be paid twice. port to Constantinople and other places
of our dominions, and pay their customs taking acquittances for the
same, and to put the goods in their own warehouses, and after being
desirous to ship them away, the customers do demand again the custom,
therefore, for the time to come, when the said merchants shall desire to
lade such goods, and if it be true that they have already paid them
custom of such merchandize, they shall not demand any second or new
customs provided that the said merchants do not mingle their goods
which have not paid custom with those which have already paid custom.
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 silks, camblets, and other goods, having paid the
custom 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
custom of their merchandize.
LIII.
The English merchants of all the commodities which they shall
bring to Constantinople or to any other
Mestaria shall he paid at Galata. port of our dominion ^ and 0 f a ll such
as they shall transport, the mestarage of Galata and Constantinople shall
take their mestaria or brokidge according to the ancient canon and