"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" [و‎‎٩‎٥] (٢٢٦/١٩٣)

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English fabric, shall pay for the future that which hitherto has been the
accustomed duty and at the scale of Smyrna shall be paid according- to the
ancient custom and use of full aspers or short money, of which aspers eighty
make a piece of eight, and seventy a lion dollar—aspers one hundred and
twenty for every piece of English cloth whether fine or coarse, whether
Londra or not, provided that it be of the fabric of England, and the
customer shall not demand nor ought to take one asper more and let no
innovation be made upon the custom of the said cloths.
III.
The capitulations being known which command that the English
having a controversy, the import of which is above four thousand aspers
that the cause shall be brought to the Porta and tried nowhere else; if
at any time the Caddee or Ministers of any place which detain any
merchant or hinder any Englishman that comes upon a ship from prose
cuting their voyage, by reason of any money imposed upon them, or pre
tended from them, if the Consul of the place will give security to answer
the pretensions made before the Porta, such persons shall be free and at
liberty to prosecute their voyage, and they that pretend anything of them,
let them come to the Divan for to be judged and let the Ambassador defend
them from those that come to demand, but if the Consul will not be
security then let the Judge of the place give sentence.
IV.
In Constantinople, Scanderoon, Smyrna, and Cyprus, and all other
ports and scales of my Empire whatsoever English ships shall arrive,
they shall pay three hundred aspers for anchorage or port charges, and
there shall not nor ought not to be taken or paid one asper more.
V.
An Englishman coming with effects and turning Mussulman, the
Ambassador or Consul knowing that such effects do belong to other
English merchants, let all the money and other effects be taken out of
the hand of such a Mussulman, and consigned to the Ambassador to the
end that he may transmit them to whom they do belong; that by this
means no goods of other man may remain in the hands of such a Mussul
man, and let not this be hindered by the means of any Caddee or other
Judges or Ministers.
VI.
Any of the aforesaid English nation having camblets. Mohairs, or
Grogram yarn in Angora or Beyleazar, if they will export the said
goods from those places after having paid 3 per cent, for the custom of
such goods they export, let them not be molested for Ikraz Batch, that,
is, for passage or exportation and there neither shall nor ought to be
taken upon the account of any such demand one asper.
VII.
Any English merchant being to receive from his debtor any sum of
money, if the said debt be recovered by the means and help of an assist
ant or Chians, he that recovers the debt shall pay no more than what is
paid to other Caddees, which is two aspers only and not one asper more.