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Title: The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Glasgow : James MacLehose and Sons
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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much hee lamented the losse thathappened in Hungarie, and if it were not for the warreswhich were betweene the two great princes, he thoughtthe Emperor ^^X the Turke would not have enterprised that acte :wherefore he with all his studie would take paine, first,to set an unitie and peace throughout all Christendome,and after that, both with money and men he would bereadie to helpe toward that glorious warre, as much asany other prince in Christendome. After this done, theambassadours were well cherished, and divers timesresorted to the court, and had great cheere and goodrewards, and so the third day of May next following,they tooke their leave & departed homeward. The antiquitie of the trade with English shipsinto the Levant. N the yeeres of our Lord, 1511. 1512.&c. till the yeere 1534. divers tall shipsof London, namely. The ChristopherCampion, wherein was Factor one RogerWhitcome; the Mary George, whereinwas Factor William Gresham; the greatMary Grace, the Owner whereof, was
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William Gunson, and the master one John Hely; theTrinitie Fitz-williams, whereof was master LaurenceArkey; the Mathew of London, whereof was masterWilliam Capling, with certaine other ships of South-ampton and Bristow, had an ordinarie and usuall tradeto Sicilia, Candie, Chio, and somewhiles to Cyprus, asalso to Tripolis and Barutti in Syria. The commoditieswhich they caried thither were fine Kersies of diverscolours, course Kersies, white Westerne dozens, Cottons, 62 ANTIQUITY OF THE LEVANT TRADE ad. certaine clothes called Statutes, and others called Cardinal-whites, and Calveskins which were well sold in Sicilie,&c. The commodities which they returned backe wereSilks, Chamlets, Rubarbe, Malmesies, Muskadels andother wines, sweete oyles, cotten wooll, Turkie carpets,Galles, Pepper, Cinamom, and some other spices, &c.Besides, the naturall inhabitants of the foresayd places,they had, even in those dayes, traffique with Jewes,Turkes, and other forreiners. Neither did our mer-ch

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