subtlety and Cruelty: OR A TRUE RELATION OF sir Sackvile Crow HIS design of seizing and possessing himself of all the Estate of the English in turkey.  
WITH The progress he made, and the means he used in the execution thereof.  
Manifested by sundry Warrants, Instructions, and Letters under his own hand and seal, and by other evidence.   

To the READER.  
COURTEOUS READER,  
THe mutual complaints of the turkey Company and sir Sackvile Crow late ambassador in turkey, being eminently public; and many scandals being cast upon the Merchants, and upon the present ambassador, by private whispers of sir Sackvile and his Agents: It is become even necessary to expose the following papers to public view; being the copies of sir Sac. crows Warrants, Instructions and Letters to his Agents, and of some of their returns: together with the Factors letters unto the Company here; giving an account of his attempts against them.  
And whosoever shall esteem it worth his time to be truly informed of the matters in difference, as they depended before the late, and this present Parliament; may collect from these Papers, the true state of the controversy: The most material of which are confessed by sir Sackvile Crow before a Committee of Parliament, to have passed under his own hand and seal; and the others also will be as easily proved.  
But be pleased first to understand the relation between the Levant( or turkey) Company and sir Sackvile Crow. He was first employed in the year 1638. as ambassador or Agent to Constantinople: and although he was dignified( as was usual) with the title of the Kings ambassador or Resident, and his Commission; yet it was not an Embassy upon matters of State, there being only Capitulations and peace for freedom of Trade between the Turkes and the English; and sir Sackvile Crow, under that honourable name, was the Levant Companies Agent or public Minister, upon several agreements and covenants mutually passed between them: and as Their Agent only, the Company paid for the transportation and provision of himself, his Lady, and all his retinue: and also gave him six hundred pounds as advance, for the furniture and ornament of his house at Constantinople: and covenanted to allow him a yearly Salary of near Two thousand five hundred pounds sterling; which was paid him quarterly beforehand. And He covenanted to take care of the public good of the Companies trade, and impartially to see it ordered by the rules and orders made by them: and to assist their Treasurer to cause the costs and charges of any Avania,( or Turkish charge upon fictitious pretences) that should happen upon a national cause, to be born by all the Company of Trad●rs there, in indifferent proportions, as their Treasurer and the English nation there should think fit: and that he should not exact any Levy of moneys, or forcibly take the goods or moneys of any of the Traders there, upon any pretence whatsoever without the Companies order under seal. This was the sum and substance of the trust reposed by the Company in sir Sackvile Crow,( with some other things less material) to which he was obliged by Articles under his hand and seal.  
Now the most gross, palpable and infamous breach of this public trust, to the high dishonour of the English nation in the eyes of Turkes and Infidels, and to the utmost hazard of the loss and ruin of a very important part of the English Trade, and of the lives and fortunes of many of the English Nation, This is the subject matter of the Levant Companies complaint against sir Sackvile Crow: and the following Papers speak enough to be sufficient proof on their behalf: from these every judicious eye may collect clear evidence, that sir Sackvile Crow did not only cast aside that care of the public good of the Companies trade, and observing their rules and orders, unto which he was obliged by Covenant; But also that he assumed and usurped to himself an absolute arbitrary power over all the Companies Estates in turkey, and their Factors Persons; and to be their absolute and supreme Judge even in his own case; and that he demeaned himself, as if he had been absolved from all his Covenants; pursuing by all undue means of force and fraud his private interest, to the ruin of the Trade. And to make these Papers speak in method and order, be pleased( good Reader) to observe from them,  
1. sir Sackvile crows Secret design; 
See page. 15. 19 32. 47. 53. 55.  as himself calls it, to his own Servants.  
2. The Disguises he cunningly deviseth to cover the frighting Deformity of it, at least until he had compassed it.  
3. The means directed and ordered by him, for the effecting his design.  
4. The proceedings he made towards the Execution of his design, before the English in turkey could avoid his oppression.  
I. First, the Warrants, Instructions and Letters given under sir Sackviles hand and seal, to his servants John Hetherington and Lorenzo Zuma discover with open face, that he designed to make himself Master of all the English Estates in turkey. The very words of his second Warrant are these, 
a See page. 8.  We hereby inorder sequestration of all moneys, merchandises and other goods and faculties whatsoever within the d●minions of the Grand signior wherever belonging to the members of the said Company in the 
* There was a Shedule of 64 names which had all the considerable estates there. vid. fol.  Schedule annexed; Requiring you to boa●d and enter all Ships and Vessels, and to break open and enter into all and every the Houses, Ware-houses and Compting-houses of all and every the said parties; and to take, carry away, and put into safe custody, all such moneys, merchandise, goods and other faculties of what nature soever, that you shall discover, find out and get into your power &c. And in his letter to Hetherington, he commands him 
b page. 33.  to hinder jordan and all other Masters of ships from lading, till he was Master of what he aimed at. And in another letter to Hetherington, he tells him thus; 
c page. 49.  You have order for rendering into your possession all goods aboard the Ships, belonging to any of our Nation; for if it be for any English, I care not for whom, or if by any English laden, I care not by whom, sequester it.  
And his intentions to grasp at no less then all, may appear, not only by the 
d 21. 49. 51. 55.  private carriage of his design, enjoining his Agents 
e 15.  that no creature should know any part thereof; Noe 
f 19.  not the French Druggerman employed by him in discovering the Merchants Estates: But by his express Instructions to them, 
g 16. 42. 47. 48. 54.  to possess themselves of what they could, without limitation: and 
h page. 55.  to expect his further orders for the time of their seizing or plundering all there, that He might fall on to do the same( which he called His work) at Constantinople at the same time. And in another letter to Lorenzo and Hetherington, he tells them 
i page. 44.  He is advised of an English Ship arrived about Smyrna, which by advice from within rides without, and resolves for Scanderone, and to discharge and relade there; But he hoped to get a command for the Chiaus to secure that other Corner also. And the same letters also give clear evidence that his further design was, to transport himself and the English estates he could swallow, out of turkey into some other foreign Nation; As in another letter to his complices, 
k page. 33. 85.  Upon your advice, I shall make use of some one of these Ships here, to transport my Wife and family, and provide for the rest in time.  
And he 
l 31. 32.  several times orders his Agents to agree with shipping at high rates, to transport the goods he had plundered from the English. And the Reader may observe in several passages 
m 22. 24. 83.  how highly sir Sackvile was enraged at the stealing any English goods aboard, or the departure of any ship: He esteeming it all to be lost out of his purse; having swallowed in his hopes the whole English estate in that Empire. And he was so confident in the face of the Sun to avow the making himself a fortune upon the Companies estates there( for that was his sole, and utmost end what ever may now be suggested) 
n 6. 7. 8. 74. 80. 81.  That he demanded of the Factors at once, Twenty five thousand pounds Sterling, for his Estate which he said was sequestered in England; and near Ten thousand pounds Sterling for his hopes of future profits by his Embassy for seven years: and tells them that until they had paid it him, neither their Persons nor Estates should be free; for he had vowed to God at the last Sacrament to sacrifice his Estate, himself, Wife and Children, for the execution of this his absolute intent.  
II. Secondly, these following Papers will show the Disguises which sir Sackvile Crow invented and practised, for the more plausible carrying on this his grand and black design. First, he imposed a Leviation or tax upon the English Estates, of a Hundred and ten thousand Dollars; under colour of a necessity for so much to satisfy the Companies debts: Requiring the same to be paid in ready money, when he  told his Agents 
o 15. 16.  he knew it to be impossible; whom yet he instructed to take no security, 
p 16.  no not all the Nation for one mans tax: Neither would he allow any time, when the Factors would submit to his Leviation, if they might have time to raise the money: But in pursuance of his secret design, he gives out Warrants and Instructions to Enter Warehouses and Comptinghouses, and seize upon all Goods, Money and merchandises; that thereby he might not only have occasion to begin to rifle the English Estates, but to Discover them; and this with less odium and scandal from the Turkes and Iewes, and with more assistance from the Turkish officers, then would have been, if his secret design had been fallen upon bare-faced. Yet to make it beyond dispute, that This was only intended in order to the design of swallowing up all; The Reader may please to observe that this Leviation was and is by sir Sackvile himself acknowledged to be a 
q 15. 16. 16. 18. 19. 47. 48.  Colour: His Agents being ordered 
r 38.  to make that the groundwork of all their other work; and 
s 49.  not to discover his own pretences till the last. As also that some of the Factors, hoping to prevent his further oppression, made tender of their part of the Leviation in money to sir Sackvile Crow himself; and he refused it, and gave order to his Agents at Smyrna, 
t 29.  to arrest the person and goods of Mr. daniel Edwards, that offered it, notwithstanding his tender of his money; and said he longed to have him in his power. And Mr. Nathaniel Brandon, another of the Factors, offering likewise his part, sir Sackvile refused it, unless he would discover where all his Estate remained; which Mr Brandon denying, sir Sackvile sends for his Broker, commanding a discovery from him, as also from Mr James Mudiford: But they still refusing, sir Sackvile vowed that if it were between Heaven and Earth he would find it out: & thereupon, on sir Sackviles command, Mr Brandon was clapped in chains. Nay 
u 30. 34.  the full of the Leviation would not be accepted: 
* 40. 48.  Nor being paid, might the Factors be afterwards at liberty to lad their goods; But 
* 29. 30.  still his instruments are directed to seize. And this first disguise of a Leviation, carried Two more in his bowels; The one was, a seizure of more goods for charges, when they had enough double and triple for the Leviation; and those he set at 36000 Dollars: The other was to appraise the goods his Agents should Seize, at half valves; That when his new pretences for his secret design should come, he might not want colour for swallowing up the whole.  
The next mask of his design was a mere feigned pretence 
x page. 7  that the Parliament had sequestered his Estate in England, by the companies procurement; and therefore He would repair himself out of theirs in turkey: and then he valves his Estate at 297000 Dollars( near 80000 pound sterling) whereas it is believed that he had not a visible Estate to 3000 pound Value.  
An other pretence was, 
y 6. 7 29.  a claim of 174000 Dollars for Consulage due to him; although he had contracted under hand and seal with the Company to assist in collecting that money for Them, to be paid to Their Treasurer; That being the usual Receipt out of which the Company defray the extraordinary Charge of the ambassador and other Ministers abroad. But as he instructed his servants about the seizing some of the Factors persons, 
z 50. 51.  to Make a pretence, if they could not find one, for( he said) it was all one to him, so the work were done; So he practiseth himself to forge and invent pretences to devour the Companies Estates; that his rapine and violence might not be seen unmasked, least they should have lost the opportunity to act it.  
III. Thirdly, Let the Reader observe from these papers what unhappy means, suitable to his Ends, he found out for compassing his design.  
1. By false insinuations to the Vizier, he procures countenance from him for an Embargo: And thereupon 
a 1. 4. 11. 23. 26. 39. 41. 45.  he arrests all the ships of the English at Smirna and Constantinople; and prohibits also the Lading of any goods; and commands the persons of any that should presume to lad, to be arrested; and those that could not be apprehended, to be proclaimed 
* 26. 35. 69.  Rebells: and so he afterwards styled most of the English Nation there. And he further commands 
b 44. 45. 46.  Accounts to be given to his Agents by the Masters of the ships, of all the goods on board; and they to enter into all Ships, Warehouses or Counting houses; and to take into their power all books of accounts, Bills of Debt, Acquittances, Letters, or other writings or evidence whatsoever belonging to any English whatsoever; and the same to keep and and make use of in evidence. Thus under 
c page. 31. 33. 35.  a feigned Colour of command from that State, he practised to immure the whole English Estate, that none might escape his fingers.  
2. He ordered Rewards and promises to be made and given to Informers( without reserving his Agents within any bounds) that they might discover the moneys, goods and debts of the Company. And 
d page. 16.  He orders his servants to employ some Jew or Armenian Brokers( under pretence of Bargains) to discover the English Estates: And his Agents 
e page. 58.  make him return to these Instructions, That they had employed the most cunning Rogues in all the country, to see if they could discover any other part of the Nations Estate either hide or lying out.  
3. He ordered 
f page. 10. 18. 20. 32. 35. 36. 41. 50.  the Bribing of the Cady, the Neipe, the Chiaus, the Customer, and all the Turkish officers and inferior ministers, to gain their assistance in his design: and herein he gives his Agents 
g page. 21.  Latitude without limit; and tells them again and again 
h page. 10. 18. 19. 20. 41.  That they must spare no Cost; assuring them they may charge 10000 Dollars upon him by bills for that use, and commands them 
i page. 52. 54.  to pawn the goods they seize, for the same end; That they might buy the Turkish Ministers to execute his cruelty upon the Factors, and help to possess him of the companies Estate. And to make his Agents most impudent and fearless in what they did, he gives them assurance in a boasting manner 
k page. 38.  That the Merchants should never have right against them, so long as they themselves had any thing to bribe the contrary: and he bad them 
l page. 53.  Value themselves and their service at what rate they pleased, and they should be recompensed.  
4. He ordered his Servants to ingratiate themselves with all the Turkes; who were apt to mutiny by seeing the horrid rapine and injustice executed upon the traders with whom they dealt: and therefore he commanded them to spare no charge in presents, 
m page. 18. 40. 63.  to make the very Townsmen of their party; and to persuade them that all that was done, was intended for the better regulation and advance of Trade; which he said was only in his power to increase and regulate.  
5. And yet to Secure himself of the whole English Estate more certainly, he took care to prevent the interposition of the justice of the very infidels, which he feared might protect the Merchants from his oppression: Therefore he informed the Vizier, 
n page. 26.  that divers English ships were joined with the Venetian Fleet, the Turkes Enemy, and attended to give Battle to the Grand Signiors fleet: and also 
o page. 82.  that some ships had been Laden by the Merchants with Powder and prohibited goods, for the Enemies supplies: And 
p page. 69.  counsels his Servants at Smirna to procure from the Turkish Ministers there, most dangerous and false Certificates, That the Factors persuaded the people of the place to mutiny: By this means exposing the Factors persons at least to Slavery in the Gallies, if not death by Torments, and the Companies Estates to a certain confiscation; if the Vizier himself had not discerned his falseness and Avanious designs against his own Nation. And though his allegations had not full credit; yet, by them he obstructed, at least for a time, the only means of relief which the factors could expect; hoping in the interim to make sure of most of their Estate.  
Thus He that was employed and trusted chiefly( as occasion should happen) to mediate with the Grand signior and his Ministers that the Capitulations between him and the English might be kept, 
See Capitulations. A●t. 16.  as sacred and inviolate; and that noe English Causes between themselves might be under the jurisdiction of the Turkish Ministers( the Grand signior having granted, for our Nations security, that his Officers should not intermeddle therein) Even He that was thus trusted, having designed to make his private fortunes out of the Companies Estates; endeavoured to his utmost to bring all the Nation there, under the Tyranny of the Turkish Ministers; conjuring his Servants to make noe Scruple 
P●ge 50.  to use the Turkish aid against the Merchants persons and Estates, whatever came of it.  
IV. Fourthly, These papers will give you an account what progress sir Sackvile Crow made in the Execution of his intended rapine.  
1. His Orders for arresting the Ships in port, took such unhappy effect, by his subtlety in gaining imperial Commands upon false suggestions, 
P. 78.  that some ships were stayed in port near 7 moneths; to an insupportable damage of the Merchants.  
2. He actually 
*.  forced the payment of 110000 Dollars, under colour of a Leviation: and also 
* page. 80  Bonds for 25000 Dollars, under colour of maintenance for himself and his family.  
3. His Servants prevailed so effectually with the Turkish officers, That * they seized and imprisoned, first the Consul and most principal of the Factors at Smirna; and afterwards most of the rest: and with Barbarous cruelty 
* page. 91.  haled the Consul and six of the chief of that factory to a dark and close Dungeon, with the doors and windows nailed upon them, in the extreme heat of Summer: Where they had in probability perished, if the mercy of the Turkes had not been prevailed upon with a bribe of 100 Dollars, to exceed the mercy of sir Sackviles Servants, and to open a window for light and air. And at the same time they forced away from the Consul there the imperial Capitulations, which were the only security of the English against Death or Slavery by the Turkes. And within a few daies they hurried their Prisoners with Turkish guards 350 miles overland to Constantinople, to imprison them in sir Sackvile crows own House: Many of their fellow Factors being soon after brought in like manner to partake of the same bondage. And what he acted by his cruel Agents at Smirna, He himself undertook to execute upon the Factory at Constantinople; where taking the opportunity of a general Court or meeting of the Nation; He caused the Gates to be shut, and by surprise took them all his Prisoners; and set strong guards upon them, to prevent all access to them, and their sending the least paper abroad; some of them also being clapped in chains.  
4. He caused the Counting houses, Warehouses and Chambers of the English at Constantinople, to be seized and sealed up. And his servants Hetherington and Zuma did the same to the whole English Nation at Smirna; and proceeded also to break open and ransake all their Chambers, trunks and Counting houses; and to plunder and carry away unto Turkish Canes, all money, goods, faculties and effects whatsoever they could find, either at home or abroad: Exposing their Servants and Families to the mercy of the infidels for their subsistence.  

P. 83.  5. He breathed forth most severe threats and menaces by his Agents, against the Servants and families of the Factors, to extort from them discovery and confession of their Masters Estates and debts, and for delivery of their books; intending to devour the whole: and the dread of the Turkish Souldiers and Officers( whose tyranny was so higly menaced) so affrighted the Factors Servants, that they fled to ships for refuge; leaving the plundered Houses to the open world.  
Thus the Reader will find sir Sackvile crows Cruelty and vigour in Executing, to be no less, then his subtlety and policy in Contriving his design of rapine upon the Companies Estates: and if the outcries and clamours of the Jews and Turkes against such horrid oppressions and destructive courses to all future Trade, 
P. 82. 93.  together with some Presents made to the Vizier by some few of the factors that fortunately escaped imprisonment, had not caused the Turkish justice to interpose, and redeem the Merchants Estates, and the Factors persons from his cruel and covetous hands, his design had certainly been fully successful.  
Now let the Reader judge whether the Company were not obliged for their own preservation, upon advice of these horrid attempts of sir Sackvile Crow, to seek some present redress. And this they did by humble addresses to the late Parliament, who were pleased to order 
* P. 95.  his Revocation; and by ordinance of Parliament 
* P. 97.  to authorize sir Thomas Bendishe to be ambassador in sir Sackvile crows stead. Yet when sir Thomas Bendishe arrived) sir Sackvile contemns the authority whereby he was sent; and pretends him to be no other then an Impostor, who had counterfeited Commissions for an Embassy; although his authority( being both from the King and the Parliament) was as great as ever any ambassador carried into turkey: and he secretly insinuated to the Vizier, that the English Nation there were most of them Rebells; and sir Thomas Bendyshe intended to be their Head: Suggesting also that he had Letters from the King to the Grand signior for his own continuance in the Embassy; hoping to have hindered the reception of sir Thomas Bendyshe. But when the falsehood of his pretences appeared to the Vizier, He caused his own officers to sand him on board a Turkish vessel to Smirna, to be from thence shipped for England, to be dealt with according to his demerits. And upon his arrival here in April 1648, 
* page. 99.  the Parliament committed him Prisoner to the Tower of London in order to his trial; and referred the Companies Complaints to be examined by the Committie for the Navy: and several witnesses in the case were by them examined; although the Report was not made, through the cunning artifices of S ● Sackvile Crow to delay the full hearing of the Cause. But it is humbly submitted to every ingenuous Reader, whether there was not cause sufficient to sand home sir Sackvile Crow: and whether S Thomas Bendishe was not obliged in faithfulnsse to his trust, to proceed as he did, in order to the performing his own Embassy: And whether the hand of Justice might not have fallen heavy upon sir Sackvile Crow, if there had been that vigorous prosecution which the blackness of his designs against the Company might have provoked them unto. Yet if sir Sackvile had not by private informations, and by pamplets( in a very secret and uningenuous way dispersed) lately endeavoured to blast the Companies and the ambassadors reputation; and also to have insinuated most false complaints of great injuries done to him by the Company; and if he had not commenced vexatious suits at Law against them, upon hopes of ●dvantage by the patience and forbearance they have shewed towards him: These his crimes had not been made thus public; being done without thought of Malice or prejudice to his person; and not without grief and shane That one who enjoyed so faire an Income from the Company, and underwent but an easy expense, and therefore could not but be master of a very ample Estate; should thus betray them who entrusted and maintained him; and so wilfully purchase ruin to himself, with the expense of his own fortunes, and above one hundred thousand Pounds loss to the Company.   

subtlety and Cruelty.  

Sir Sackvile Crow his Order, dated in Pera of Constantinople the 26th of January, 1645. Directed to all Captains, Commanders of Ships, &c. Prohibiting the lading of any Goods or Estate on their Ships.  
WHereas by the unhappy failings of some of our Nations here, and at Smyrna, and through the many late changes of this State's Officers, and their extravagant exactions on us in those difficulties; and by sundry other avanious ways▪ our nation is brought into a great Debt; For which, Wee, or those, and that Estate which shall remain on the place, who, and whatever in case of exigent, and force for payment, when ever that shall happen, must( if not otherwise provided for) in all probability, and according to the rude customs of this State in like case, look to bee made liable unto. There being at present a full and competent Estate of the Levant Companies arrived here and at Smyrna, which as well by the obligations of their Charter, as by the Laws of England, the said Companies own Institutions and customs, in cases of like nature, ought as well to bear the said extraordinary as ordinary Charges, and so pay those Debts which either are, or shall bee adjudged and declared to belong unto them. Wee having taken pains in drawing the said Accomts to a head, and for the discovery of the truth thereof; and( after a Certificate being directed thereon) for the more formal satisfaction onely of the said Company) being advertised that some of those who with us have had the view and been present at the examination of the said accounts, whom it concerns on the Companies behalf to make such certificate, on our Order; for some private respects, make scruple to certify the said Debts, as they appeared before us and them: And hearing also that the general Ships here in Port, and that at Smyrna, prepare, and make hast to bee gon; In Providence, as well for our own safety in the premises, as for that due regard wee owe to his Majesties Honor, and the public interest for the future; Wee find it requisite, and hereby order and require, that until the said Debts shall bee fully declared, and their payment settled by Leviation, and the same paid or undertaken, in, and by some such fitting and secure way, or ways as in such case is requisite, and by us shall bee determined and so declared; That none of the Factors of this scale, or that of Smyrna, by themselves, or others whoever, after publica●ion hereof here and there respectively, lad on Board either of the general Ships, or other ships whatever, any Goods, faculty, or estate whatever, for themselves or other whoever: And that the Captains and Commanders of the said ships, in the mean time, and until Our farther Order in this behalf, not onely forbear to take in, and lad aboard either of their ships any such Goods or faculties for any of His Majesties Subjects, or other strangers whoever; but also that they abide and depart not, either this Port, or that of Smyrna respectively, until our farther Order and licence in that behalf: whereof not onely the Merchants, Factors, Masters, and Commanders afore mentioned, but our 
* Intrepreters  Druggermen, and other Under ministers here or there, are to take notice, and observe accordingly; as they, and every of them concerned herein, will answer the contrary at his or their peril.  
Dated in Pera of Constantinople, this 26 of January, 1645. To all Captains, Commanders of Ships, Merchants, Factors, Druggermen, and all other his Majesties Subjects and Ministers whoever in the Ports of Constantinople and Smyrna. Sackvile Crow   

Sir Sakcvile Crowe's First Warrant, directed to John Hetherington and Lorenzo Zuma, going for Smyrna; to apprehended and to sand to Constantinople the Consul and factors not paying the Leviation, and to seize upon their Estate; and to probibite their trading. Dated 27. Apr. 1646.  
Whereas by vote of Court here, agreeable to the Ancient and ever accustomend Rules of the Levant company in cases of like nature, and our orders thereon, a Leviation was agreed on for the payment of the said Companies debts, and that to bee had, made, or raised on all goods and merchandise inward laden on the three General Ships, Hercules, samson, and Symrna Merchants, lately arrived at Smyrna or this Port, by an equal Avarage according to a Schedule hereunto annexed; which Schedule together with our order thereon of the 28th February last, being formerly sent to the Factory of Smyrna, and there( as by the said Factors general Letter to us directed, with the Consuls, and copies of Courts held by the said Consul there for that occasion, appears) being denied to bee complied withall; and the said Factors persisting in their obstinacy, and still refusing to obey our said Orders, and to pay their parts of the said Leviation according thereunto and Schedule aforementioned? These are to will and require you John Hetherington and you Lorenzo Zvma to repair to Smyrna, and thereby virtue of the imperial Commands given into your hands to that end, by means of the Caddie, Viziers Baluck Bassheê or Chouz sent to attend this service, or one of them, for the better example to the other, to apprehended and sand to this Port, to bee delivered into our hands and custody, the Consul with six or eight of the chief of that Factory, and most refractory, viz. John Lancelot Consul, Dixwell Brent Treasurer, Daniel Edwards, Samuel Barnardiston, George Hanger, James Moyer, John Ball, John Englesby, and Henry Davy Factors; and in the mean time to seal up their Houses Ware-houses and Counting-houses with all and every of their goods merchandise and faculties whatever therein, until farther order from us in that behalf; And for the rest( not paying the said Leviation and their respective parts therein or giving that caution for the same in such manner at by your instructions is directed) you are to seal up his and their and every of his or their Ware-houses and Counting-houses, and to seize and take into your Power, Custody, and Possession all his and their and every of their Goods merchandise and faculties whatever; until he or they refusing comply with our said Order for Leviation in manner aforesaid, viz, either by paying their parts or giving caution for the same to bee payed in such manner as by your instructions is directed; and in the mean time to prohibit them and every of them, Commerce or Trade by the way of buying, selling, Bartering or Trucking of any commodity whatever; and during that time not to suffer them or any of them so refusing, and delaying, to sand on board any English Ship or Vessel Riding in the Port of Smyrna, nor any such Ship or Vessel, there to take on board or receive any Goods merchandise or faculties whatever, belonging to them or any of them; for which this is to bee your Warrant.  
Dated in Pera of Constantinople. this 27th April 1646, To our very loving friends and Servants: John Hetherington and Lorenzo Zuma. Sackvile Crow.   

Sir Sackvile Crow his Second Warrant, dated in Pera of Constantinople, the 30 of april, 1646. directed to John Hetherington, Lorenzo Zuma; Enordering( upon fals pretences) the sequestration of the Merchants Estates at Smyrna, according to a Schedule.  
WHereas the Levant Company, sometime before our coming to this place, by a Court of their Assistants, thereunto specially authorised, treated with us touching a yearly allowance for our care and pains during our residence here as his Majesties Ambassador; to bee had and taken in such particulars as might have relation to their trade and occasions: And for a conclusion of such treaty as aforesaid, did offer unto us the election of any one of their agreements, formerly made with any of our Predecessors in like occasion. And for a further manifestation of their sincerity in their said offer, upon our accord thereunto, did at the Court aforesaid, in public give into our Hands and possession the Copies of five of their agreements, made with our said Predecessors, with power to Choose which of them wee should best like of, to bee a rule and pattern for an absolute conclusion and condition to bee drawn up between us and them; thereon also promising that they would make, grant, and confirm the like unto us. And whereas wee thereon, and to the purposes and ends afore mentioned, choose and fixed upon that agreement, which the said Company had made with Sir Thomas Glover, formerly Ambassador, Resident for the Crown of England, with this state: and his majesty by his favour did assure the same unto us, graciously promising to make his employment of us here, as good and beneficial in all the a●lowances and perquisites thereof, as it had been to any of our Predecessors whoever, and wee expected no less. The said Company, finding themselves mistaken in their offer( as they pretended) first retired from the same, denying their said agreement( though sufficiently proved before his majesty) and then by force of presents and money given under hand to the Officers of that time, so prevailed against us, that wee could not onely not obtain that Right, which since hath appeared unto us, and( as well by their own agreement, as by his Majesties judgement then, custom, and their former contracts) was due unto us; but were forced after to other agreements with the said Company, by which( over and above all such Rights, Privileges, and perquisites, as then were and should bee granted unto us by his Majesties Capitulations, and besides all other gratifications and allowances accustomend to bee given to his Majesties Ambassador,( which in household provisions, only the said Company, assured us were to the value of 800 l. per annum, sterling, at least) and over and above such Plate, and household Stuff as they assured us, wee should find of theirs here, and hold to our use during our residence,( of which wee found not the value of and Asper) the said Company did covenant with us,( for and in respect of our pains and care only therein agreed to bee taken by us, in their affairs and occasions as aforesaid, for and during all our time as his Majesties Ambassador with this State,) they would pay or cause to bee paid unto us the sum of five thousand 
viij. Sterling.  Chickeenes, per an., to be paid by equal proportions quarterly beforehand; by their failing wherein( besides our other engagements for them to a very good value) twenty and five thousand Dollars or there abouts rests at this day due and unpaid unto us: And whereas also after the agreements aforesaid, upon several arguments held before his majesty, concerning the rights of that Consulage which amongst other things is granted by the Grand signior, and payable by his Capitulations to his Majesties Ambassador Resident at this imperial Port from strangers,( to which the said Company could show no likely or probable title) The said Company were adjudged to relinquish their pretences to the said Consulage; and a grant thereof under his Majesties Royal Hand and signet, was thereon made and given to us, for our better support during the time of our residence here. The said Company( upon conditions between them and us agreed) did also promise to give us content therefore; with intent nevertheless thereby to get advantage of our credulity and absence, and to draw us out of suspect of their evil intentions towards us, which hath since,( as well by their several interruptions and hindrances here in the Collection thereof, as their practices, and endeavours at Council Table before his majesty, and by their other appeals to the Courts of parliament, where in these times of distractions, they presumed of some better advantage) hath appeared unto us; Whereby, and by suggesting several untruths against us, and by other false ways they have endeavoured not only to deprive us of the strangers Consulage, and benefit thereof; but under that colour also and these their pretences, to keep themselves from paying, as us from taking such other Consulage, as was, and is as much our right, and due unto us from themselves, by the said Capitulations and the Grand Signor's grant thereon, for all their own goods Traded in; And now of late, but suspecting our just intentions of making a claim thereto,( for until this present day wee never made any demand therefore, or public pretence therein) to prevent what they suppose wee might justiy do in our own right,( for wee take God to Witness wee know no other cause) under like unjust and scandalous pretences, wee are certified that they not only go about to get us removed from our employment here, but upon fals suggestions, loose and bare suspicions onely, have gotten Order for the seizure of all our Lands and other Estates in England into their power; as some of their own Servants and Factors here have the confidence to report and affirm; and as wee are assured from thence, without hearing of us; nay, so much as intimation to us of the grounds thereof, or such matters and things as they pretend at least to have against us, whereby wee might answer for our selvs; and so, whilst wee are labouring( as for these many years wee have don, with all fidelity for them and their public Interest,( whereof, as wee have proof sufficient in our actions, so wee have him that is judge of the World for witness to our Conscience) they are contriving the ruin of us and our Posterity; which manner of proceeding so unjust, horrid, and odious before God and Man( as in all reason wee ought) taking to heart and our serious consideration, and as well that violence which is offered to the laws, and his Majesties Honor and Interest therein, as ourself and our family) not pretending to extend that authority which his majesty hath put into our hands to unlawful ends, but only to make a just use of it for the right & lawful defence of our selvs & it in the several occasions aforementioned; finding by account under the hands of the Treasurer of the said Company here, that for such goods as they have brought in and carried out from the Port of Constantinople, there is due unto us according to the Capitulations, and the Grand Signors grants therein, to the value of Dollars rials of 2 / 8, seventy four thousand; and that for the like in Smyrna there is due Dollars rials of 8 / 8, one hundred thousand in circa; and rating that Estate in Land which they have gotten into their power as aforesaid, but at the value wee were offered for it, viz. at ninety seven thousand and five hundred Dollars; in all, two hundred scutcheon one thousand and five hundred Dollars. Besides,( for ought wee know to the contrary) they may else have prevailed themselves upon of ours; And as due to us by privy Seal to the value of one hundred thousand Dollars; and Leases under the great Seal to near as great a value more. Wee hereby inorder sequestration of all moneys, merchandises, and other Goods and Faculties whatever, within the Dominions of the Grand signior wherever, belonging to the Parties and Members of the said Company, in the Schedule hereunto annexed, the chief Fomentors, Contrivers, and Abettors of these unjust and horrid proceedings; requiring you John Hetherington, and you Lorenzo Zuma, or one, or both, or either of you, by the help and means of that officer sent by the Vizier, and those commands in your hands( being now at Smyrna, on other like occasions) according to your instructions herewith sent, to board and enter all Ships and Vessels, and to break open, and enter into all and every of the Houses, Ware-houses, Counting-houses, of all and every of the Parties in the Schedule hereunto annexed and aforementioned; and there to attach ' arrest, take into your custody and possession; and as arrested and sequestered, to take, carry away, and put into safe custody, all such moneys, merchandises, other Goods and Faculties of what nature soever that you shall discover, find out, and get into your power, belonging to any of the Parties, or under the marks in the Schedule annexed; and the same to keep so arrested and sequestered, for our better indemnity, satisfaction, and defence against all pretences of the Levant Company before mentioned whatever, until wee may bee heard therein by due course of Law, and till further Order from us in that behalf; for which this is to bee your Warrant.  
Dated in Pera of Constantinople, this 30th of April, Anno 1646. To our very loving Friends and servants, John Hetherington, and Lorenzo Zuma. Sackvile Crow.   

Warrant and Instructions for Lorenzo Zuma Our Druggerman( upon refusal of that Leviation which by Vote of Court here, bearing date the 18th of February last past, and Our Order thereon bearing dale the 28th of the same) sent with Orders and the Grand Seigneurs Imperial Commands to Smyrna, to raise and return into Our Cancellaria such part of that Leviation which conformable to the said Act of Court is made payable by the several Factors there, according to the Schedule therewith sent, and hereunto annexed, as followeth; viz.  
1. UPon your arrival at Smyrna, you shall repair to the present Consul there, and tender him Our general Letter to the Nation, desiring him to call a Court thereon, and cause it to bee there red and published; the Copy whereof, for your better information, you shall herewith receive.  
2. If thereon and according to the Contents thereof the Consul and every of the Nation respectively, shall either forthwith pay into your hands their and every of their respective parts, or for every of them apart, give into your hands and possession good caution by a sufficient pawn within twenty daies next following the delivery thereof in Court, to pay or cause to bee paid into our Cancellaria here his and their and every of their respective sums of money and proportions in the Schedule hereunto annexed, together with that charge which either hath or may ensue their late denial and refusal to make good the same, you shall therewith rest contented until Our farther order and direction upon their or either of their performances or failings,( as it may after fall out) which you are there to attend and expect from us in such occasion.  
3. Or in case all or any of the said Factorie, in stead of paying his or their respective parts of the Leviation into Our Cancellaria as aforesaid, shall bee desirous to give you Bills of Exchange for his or their respective parts to bee paid into the hands of the Companies Treasurer here, for the present time being, to bee disposed of by him to the uses aforesaid. In such case also you have power to comply with the Nation or any of them so desiring it, for his or their better ease and commodity; however, understanding nevertheless, that you first have such caution put into your hands for performance as before limited; viz. to the value of the said money, and one third part more for defraying of charges and casualties in occasion, and this pawn to bee in solid and Merchantable goods.  
4. In case the said Consul and Nation or either of them after these offers, shall refuse or delay either to pay unto you, or to give you good caution( as aforesaid) by pledge of Cloth or other good Commodities to one third at least more than the value of what they stand ranted in the Leviation afore-mentioned, & for the due payment of their and every of their respective parts & proportions thereof: In such case( taking the Chouz along with you) you shall forthwith repair to the Caddie, and by the said Chouz his hand deliver such Commands to him( to bee registered by him and after returned unto you) as accompany these, for your better aid to the effects aforesaid; and thereafter( for the Caddies greater awe, and the firmer securing him to the service and your part) you shall also in occasion show him that Fettfaw which you herewith receive, decl●●ing our absolute interest and authority by the Grand Signors grant, and so, by their Law in such cases, over all His Majestie's Subjects under Our Charge, and thereon require the assistance of his power and aid accordingly agreeable to the Imperial Commands in that behalf; for the procuring whereof to such ends as you are directed, and in such way and manner as may bee requisite( according to such occasion as may happily bee given you) you are not to spare any reasonable Cost or Change to make him firmly yours, and so his Naipe, or any other of Interest about him.  
5. Having made the Caddie yours; for your farther help, doubting the coloring, concealing, lading aboard some ship in Port, or otherwise misdisposing of such parties Estates in others Names, for prevention of deceit and abuse therein, you shall strictly prohibit all and every of his Majestie's Subjects whoever, so refusing and delaying, the lading of any Goods, Money, merchandise or faculty upon any English ship in Port, as also all and every of the English ship's Commanders and Officers whoever, belonging to such ships as then shall bee in the Port of Smyrna, to forbear taking in any of the Goods, Money and merchandise belonging to any one of that Factorie, refusing and not complying in his or their part of the Leviation in manner aforesaid: Agreeable hereunto, and the Commands in your hands, procure the Caddies signification to the Customer of the Scale, and his best assistance therein, giving in the Names of such person or persons as withstand the Leviation, and are refractory to Our Orders.  
6. In farther prosecution hereof, having first made the Caddie sure( as before, any refusing) you are( together with the Chouz, and some Officer of his) first to repair to the house or houses of him or them that shall make denial of their parts of the said Leviation, and for the avoiding of noise( what you may) once more require it at every one of their houses privately and respectively; and upon his or their refusal whoever by the Chouz, to attach and arrest the Person or Persons of him or them refusing or delaying, and the same keep in safe custody until Our farther order.  
7. If thereon and after this, any one of them shall refuse or but delay to pay or to give you caution as aforesaid, you shall( together with the Chouz, and by the means and assistance of the Caddie) enter into the house or houses, Warehouse or Ware-houses, Counting-house or Counting-houses of all and every of such parties denying, resisting, refusing or delaying in one or either of the respects aforesaid( first observing the most material cause, most refractory and so the fittest person to deal with) and( having before-hand provided sufficient and convenient Room or Rooms according to the occasion in some good safe place or Cane therefore) you are to arrest, seize and take into your power, possession, carry away, and( until farther Order thereon from Us) lay up and put in safe custody so much of the Estate or Estates in Money, Silk or Silk-stuffs, or other like goods or faculties, as shall upon a reasonable estimate in value amount unto his or their parts and proportions refusing or delaying,( as afore-mentioned) with an over-plus of one third part more in value, towards that charge which hath been occasioned or may ensue by his or their refusing whoever, and not complying with the said Act of Court for the Leviation, and Our Order thereon aforesaid.  
8. In case the said Consul and Nation or either of them shall hereon notwithstanding withstand the Chouz and Caddies authority in such way or by such means of Force or other Combination to such a resistance as that thereby danger to the life of any may bee likely to ensue, if you should pursue Our Commands herein as directed; or that you find the Caddie or Chouz in such case, or other, scrupulous to proceed in the ways and to the effecting of Our Order in this behalf, without more special order from the Port, or for other respects whatever: In such case you shall forthwith dispeed one of the Chouze's Servants and other Mess-express, with Arze to the Port, and your Certificate to Us of the manner of such resistance, and cause or causes of the hindrance of your proceedings, and in the mean respite your progress therein, and sit quiet until farther Order from Us and the Port in that behalf.  
9. In all and every the particulars afore-going, and all other your lawful endeavours therein, agreeable to such occasion as shall or may bee given you in pursuance, and for your better execution of the premises and every part thereof, These are as well to bee your Warrant as Instructions.  
Given at Our Residence in Pera of Constantinople, the 30th April 1646. SACKVILE CROW.   

The particular Consignment of 6280 Broad Clothes landed at Smyrna out of the Ships samson, Smyrna-Merchant, and Hercules, ranted at 8 Dollars ¾ per Cloth.  
  Clo. D. A. TO james Moyer 710 6212 40 To Nath. & Sam. Barnardiston 880 7700 — To George Hanger 300 2625 — To Daniel Edwards 615 5381 20 To John Robinson 225 1968 60 To John Pixley 080 0700 — To John Lancelott & Dixwell Brent 460 4025 — To Henry Davy & company 735 6431 20 To Edward Dixie 020 0175 — To John Ball 365 3193 60 To John Willan 115 1006 20 To George Cave & company 005 0043 60 To Roger Middleton 010 0087 40 To William Whitecombe 050 0437 40 To Robert daws 175 1531 20 To John Englesby 220 1925 — To Walter Elford 025 0218 60 To Thomas Newson 135 1181 20 To John Hassal & Francis Hill 100 0875 — To John Hassal 010 0087 40 To Francis Hill 145 1268 60 To William Oxw●cke 230 2012 40 To John been 050 0437 — To John wild 080 0700 — To Rast●r 060 0525 — To John Wyvill 120 1050 — By Clothes sequestered in Cancellaria 300 3150 —   6280 54950    
Concordat cum Original. DOMENICO TIMONE Secretar.   

Sir Sackvile Crow his Instructions to John Hethrington, dated in Pera the 30th of April 1646. For the execution of the aforesaid Warrants, with a Schedule of the nam●s of such men whose Goods he chiefly aimed at, by a mark in the Margin.  
BY those Instructions wee have given to Lorenzo our Druggerman, in which wee sand you as Assistant, and superintendant, you will find that wee have given him Order( under colour of the Leviation in hand, taking advantage of their former refusal) to require either the money, and each mans part thereof respectively to bee paid into his hands there in specie,( which I conceive they are not able, or at least with their conveniency cannot, and so will not do,) or give him Caution by some good pawn( as in those Instructions) to a greater value; viz. one third part mo●e at least, for the payment of the money here, which you are to endeavour to see observed, or cause that course to bee taken therein, which is directed by Us in Our said Instructions to Lorenzo; viz. upon their refusal, by means of the Chiouz and Caddie, to apprehended the chief and most refractory, and seal up the Ware-houses of them that have most Estate and Goods, and those chiefly aimed at, whose names you shall find marked in a list of Names, and Schedule hereunto annexed, with a mark agreeable to that in the margin.  
2. You are to be careful that no creature know any part of your design; and sure not to be Courted by good fellowship, or other show of friendship to you, or us, by discourse touching the ends of your coming or otherwise to make the least discovery, that may give intimation, or light of your intentions. To any demanding of you the reason of your coming down; you shall say( as true it is) that you are sent to bee a spectator, witness, and overseer, of the Druggerman and Chiouz proceeding in the Leviation, which they came about, and which so much concerns me, them, and the public interest, and that that bee not bawked, or delayed, and that I might bee sure, to have the better intelligence from time to time of theirs, and the Nations procedings and accordingly( this being the first part of your service) you are to carry yourself; and as you are to persuade the consul and Nation on the one side, with reasons civil, and fair terms; so on the other you are ro urge the Druggerman, and Chiouz to provoke( or procure the Caddie, as occasion of resistance shall bee offered) to do their offices.  
3. whilst you are labouring in this fair way, to these ends, and before you discover either too much passion, or eagerness, in pursuit thereof, or ought of your farther purposes, you must by all possible means and ways seek to discover, what Goods and estate, each of the Nation( especially those before mentioned) have in their houses, and Magazeens, or carried abroad. viz. and principally Drugs, cotton, and Grograine yarnes, and more especially silk, and Cloth: for the better knowledge whereof, you are to sand some Armenian, or Jew Broker about, under colour and pretence of buying or bartering, for some Cloath, who by that advantage m●y enter their Ware-houses, and take notice what cloth or other Commodities they have, and where; and thereby give you light how to begin, and to proceed in your work to purpose.  
But( as before directed) you are not to stir in the Second Warrant, until the first have taken place, and you see the issue of that for the Leviation, on which if they pay you money there into the hands of Lorenzo,( which as before will bee impossible for them) your work will bee so much the easier, that money will serve me as well: if they cannot pay, but offer your bills without caution by pawn, you are not to take that, nor to accept any personal security, no not all the Nation for one of them, but in such case to proceed to a seizure, and then bee sure you seize enough, and all you can fasten on, especially of those men under the marks before mentioned. But if they come to give Bills for the Money, which is the thing you must chiefly press for, and will bee most likely to be obtained; then those Goods so pledged and deposited( and for that purpose resting in your possession until their Bills bee paid) will bee a sit subject for your other Warranr to work on, and( if there should after bee occasion of addition) the rest would the more easily be found out and brought under; for which end, upon such seizure or pawn as before directed, you are to sand us advice by express of the nature, condition, and quantity of such things as shall bee either rendered you for a pawn, or seized by you, and what remaines of that parties besides, which if it bee in Cloth( and no other offer to bee had) you may take that at 45 Doll●rs per Cloth, and so all other Commodities at a like under value, and after that rate l⅓ more then the value of each man's part in the Leviation( as in Lorenzoe's instructions) towards expenses down for charges, suits of Law, casualties in sale, &c. that may ensue.  
5. In case none of the two propositions take place with the Nation touching the Leviation, viz. either for payment of money there, or by Bills of Exchange, with security by pawn( wherein you are to know that the Law is on your side, and giv's you liberty to take what security like's you, or refuse what like's you not) and that you bee thereby driven by way of force to make a seizure( which I doubt you will bee) In such case by means of the * Chiouz and * Caddie( as in Lorenzoe's instruction) you must first seize the persons most refractory, or most useful to your occasion, into the Chiouz's hands; and keep them safe from communication with any other of the Nation; then seal up their, and every of their Ware-houses refusing; and after break them, and every of them open, and thence at your leisures, take out and carry, into some Cane or Canes first prepared by you, so much Silk, Cloth, Grograin, or Cotten-yarn, drugs, Wax, and other like Merchantable Goods as you shall find, and may amount to the value of his part of the Leviation so refusing; with l⅓ part more, as before; and the same shall keep so arrested and sequestered until farther Order from us in that behalf; into what Ware-house soever you enter, taking-precise notice and account, as well what Goods you leave behind you, as what you take away, of which you are to give us punctual advice by express, for our better Government in what wee may bee occasioned farther to order and direct you, in execution of your second Warrant, after wee shall see the issue of the first.  
6. For your better means to effect these ends, you must bee careful, and as much as in you lieth, and before you begin ought, by Friends, Presents, Money, or else, first to make the Caddie sure to you, and so his x Neipe, and those in credit with them, whether of his household▪ or in the Town; and especially amongst those of the Town, Bustangees and Aga; and having them with you, and being backed with those Commands and that Fettfaro, which you have in your hand; you need not doubt of prevailing over the other or any opposing you, the chief and principal being settled, whom you may confirm yours, by telling them that the Trade, and so their good is concerned, advantaged and protected by the Ambassador, and his care thereof, whose proper work that is, and that power given him by the Capitulations, and the Grand Signors express commands now sent with Fettfaro thereon; declaring that all our Subjects should obey our Orders accordingly, without which it would bee impossible to have any Trade continued here or there, or they have any Commerce or benefit thereby, there being none almost now but English that Trade, and that must also fail if their public Debts bee not paid.  
7. For this purpose, you are to spare no charge, whatever it cost; wee resolving to make the Estate of such as resist, to pay the expense, as well as our demands; and therefore you are well and diligently to observe the proceeding of the Caddie, and working of the Nation with him, or the Town; and accordingly, and with a diligence proportionable, ply your business.  
8. For the better effecting whereof, considering yourself and the Druggermen as strangers to the forms of that place, and that those of the Nation may bee false to you; and to the end you may not bee to seek, as well for means to come acquainted with the Caddie and other chief men of the place in occasion, nor how to discover our Merchants Estates and proceedings, nor to have a constant intelligence on them, or want help in occasion; you shall make use of such Letters as you will have from the French Ambassador, and ourself, to the French Consul there, praying the Astance of his Druggermen in your occasions; under which gene●als, having Order from the Consul for his Druggermen in such occasion, being a Jew, you may for money( which you are not to spare) make him yours, and work him to your ends; but bee careful( however) you trust him not with any secret, or discover the least particular and private part of our instructions; onely, that you are sent by my order, and the consent of the Nation here, for a Leviation towards some public Debts and occasions belonging to the whole Nation; and doubting that some of them for avoiding payment, might go about either to conceal their Estates, or make opposition; as one Ambassador ought to do to another( in like case) I have desired the assistance of their Druggerman, doubting the fidelity of our own in a case wherein they are more dependent on their own Merchants; by this means you will not onely enable yourself by an experienced help, but take him off from joining with and serving our Factors, and opposing or hindering you with the Caddie, &c. and beyond this, he is not like to bee of great use to you; except happily( finding him like to proov faithful, and to promise fidelity) you can by Money make use of him for discovery of the Merchants Estates as before, or making the Townsmen capable of the grounds and reasons of this payment, and our present Order therefore; if so, you will not onely leave the Factors without a party, or other defence, against our Authority, and the Grand Signors Commands( which I must expect they will endeavour by all means possible to them, in in the ways of resistance, faction, or bribing to avoid) but help to bring in their Estates also discovered; in both you will have this advantage, that what ever you give, comes out of their main stock; and so you may spare the less.  
9. I hope the Customer before your arrival will bee a little calmer, then hitherunto he hath been, and at last forsake the Merchants part; if not, you shall do well on your first arrival, as on your old score of friendship, under colour of a visit, to make him sensible, not onely of those courtesies I have formerly don him, but to let him know how sensible I am of such his proceedings, and how contrary they are to his promises and oaths to me, in case I could get him to bee made Customer of that place; at last, and in extremity, that if he persist, you have power sufficient to kerb him, or sand him to Constantinople; and see first before you come to action, how that language will work with him.  
10. If this take no effect to make him yours,( which I wish, if possible) you may tell him, he can but expect a Custom for those Goods, which are ready to bee transported; and that whether those Goods go by these Ships or Land, he shall have that, and a present to boot; conditionally he suffer no Goods to pass by day or night, but such as he shall have your or my allowance and note for, under your hand; wherein if he will assist you, that is, to deteign such Goods as I shall have occasion to attach and arrest; for all such as you arrest, you have power upon his performance of his part, to give him Bills for, payable by me to the import of whatever they shall amount unto in Custom, together with such present to him therefore, as you and he can agree for.  
11. In case this will not serve his turn, you are then to proceed by the Caddie, to make A●ze to the Port, of his demeanour; leaving the prosecution of him, and his demeanour hereto us, in that way shall bee fitting his carriage, and our duty therein; towards the procuring of which Arze in occasion, and to make it such as may take hold on the said Bogus, or any of his abettors or Assistants, Friends, Servants or other Merchants, his Majesties Subjects, or of the Subjects of the Grand signior, or any strangers whoever, that shall bee aiding or assisting of any of his Majesties Subjects, in contra to our lawful Orders aforementioned,( grounded on his Majesties Authority, the imperial Capitulations, and Grand Signors Commands agreeable thereunto) you are to spare no cost: but whatever you do that way, must bee private, and to bee sure with charge.  
12. Thus having latitude without limit to procure our just ends in manner before prescribed, as you are carefully to intend the matter committed to your trust; so you are discreetly and with moderation to attend for sit time, and observe our directions in the series and succedency for manner of your proceedings; not absolutely limiting you, however therein, but( not having opportunity, first timely to advice us at this distance, and as otherwise might bee necessary in such case) observing and taking a fair and probable way to the main end you go for; wee leave you at liberty to do what shall appear most requisite; nevertheless willing you to advice us of all such digressions, and alterations in your proceedings, with the causes thereof, by expresses from time to time, and on all occasions; that thereon wee may govern ourselves, and direct you as may bee most requisite for effecting of that you go about, with Honour to his Majesty and safety to ourselves.  
13. That Letter you carry with you to Mr Lancelot, will show you and him the cause why I desire not to make use of his hand in this particular; it agreeing best with his own desire to bee spared in it; however if he stand not inclined to the Leviation, and to farther it, at least comply therein for himself and his proportion, and stand neuter for the rest; the first man you are to begin withall must bee he, whose person though as being Consul wee will not have you attach until our further order( except in case of resistance) yet you shall enter into his house and Warehouses, as being a merchant withall, and there seize, sequester, and take away, as in any other man's case, in the manner, and to the ends afore specified.  
14. But if you perceive that the Nation have conveyed away any considerable part of their Estates, that they stand resolute in denial of the Leviation, or refuse to give caution therefore as directed, or doubt any sort of combination amongst them to those ends; and find that Mr Lancelott, hath either connived with them or any of them in sending any Goods aboard any of the Ships in Port, since our order of the 26 of January past, or to have sent any of his own Estate or others; you shall forthwith in such case, make use of the warrant to that effect, now also delivered into your hands, and for that especial purpose; and thereon cause the Chious to seize, take into his power and safe custody, the bodies and persons of the said John Lancelott consul, and six or eight more of the chief of the Nation, that you shall find to have any hand therein, or shall refuse the Leviathan, viz. Daniel Edwards, Sam. Barnardiston, James Moyer, Henry Davis, or John Ball, John Pixley, &c. and seal up their Houses, Warehouses, and Magazines, till farther Order from us: But if you shall have any just cause given you to suspect the conveying of any goods out of their Houses, Warehouses, after such entry, seizure, and you● seal●ng up of their Houses, &c. before such advice can come unto us, and wee return you answer, and give farther directions therein; in such case, and as before directed, in the cases aforementioned, you shall enter the Warehouses of the said parties, take account of Goods and Estate there; and then by inventory take into your possession, and carry away the same, and every part thereof, especially fine goods, to some other safe place provided by you beforehand to such purpose; and there keep and detain the same until our farther order; and the other gross Goods keep sealed up till then.  
15. In case you should find Porter the master of the William & Thomas, not gone from Smyrna, nor apprehended by the Chiouz sent down before your arrival for that end; you must use all possible means to get him into your power, and the hands of the Chiouz now going with you, and sand him along with the rest; of the insolency of whose proceeding there( I mean of that escape there made by him first, and then of the assault after by his Mariners) you must use all possible diligence to discover the truth with its circumstances, and which of the Nation were his Counsellors, Abettors or Assistants therein; and thereof, and the particulars give us advice; as also, and especially, who have jaded any Goods on his Ship, and to what value; whereof you are to demand account for Mr Brent, and Mr Lancelot, and if they two bee found guilty, especially the consul, bee sure to bring him up for one.  
16. In the mean time you are to give strict charge by the Caddie to the Masters of the Ships, that none of them lad any goods on their, or either of their Ships, without further Order; and sending the consul, or other of the Merchants, by some of the Chiouzes servants; and with the other Chiouz you are to stay with Lorenzo there, to make good the Estate, until further Order from us upon advice.  
17. In Case when you shall have entred any of the Merchants houses, and there seized of any of their Goods, or Estates, as Cloth especially, any Jew, or other shall come and pretend that that Estate is his, and bought of that merchant; in such case after the proof of the particulars of his bargain before the Law, he is to proov also, that he hath paid the money for it; or else not having paid, when he pays to receive his goods, and until then, the Estate to remain with you, or until other Order by Justices which will require him to pay the money, or free the Goods.  
18. For what concerns the strangers Consulage, after a day or two being there, you are to tell Mr. Lancelot, and Mr. Brent, that according to their promise, I have long expected the account of particulars from them, and the Tariffe by which they use to rate goods in Consulage; which you are to demand at first, and to expect, with some show of civility for a while.  
19. If they say they have sent it, or intend to sand it to me, you may tell them it was part of your Errand thither, to look a little into the manner of the carriage of that Business, and that you are to desire of them the sight of the Masters Entries, thereby to see how those Entries agree with the account sent me; having perused these, you shal desire to see their Book by which that account is made up( which, if they have dealt sincerely with me, they will not bee scrupulous to show you, freely, if not you are to demand it by force; according as you shall find the Books of account, or their clearness You may tell them what I have heard touching a difference between themselves, and desire to see that account which they thereon referred to Captain Hurlstone, Master of the Society; if they refuse that, you are to Seal up their Counting-houses, and advice me accordingly.  
20. You may choose as you see occasion, whether you will speak ought with Mr. Lancelott, touching his account of Consulage, till he bee in hold, touching the other business( as I presume you will have occasion to put him) especiall-for his own lading, on the Ship William and Thomas, and suffering others to do the like, after order from us, commands from the Port, and a letter from the Captain Bashaw prohibiting it; wherein finding Mr Lancelott an actor, you are not to spare him of all others, but bee sure to put him into the the Chiouzes hand, as false in, and guilty of all that confusion and combustion, which hath happened by lading, concealing, and conveying away of their Estates, which you will find to have been hatched, and acted there: And in such case also to take hold of ought you can find of his or Brents, for they are partners, and so interested alike; for which, and whatever you shall do, upon the grounds against the persons, and conducing, and in the manner to the ends afore directed, these are to bee your warrant.  
Given in Pera of Constantinople, this 30. of april, 1646. Sackvile Crow.  
The Schedule.  

{fleur-de-lys} John Langham Alderman.  
{fleur-de-lys} Richard Chambers.  
William Vincente.  
laurence lo.  
Daniel Andrews.  
{fleur-de-lys} Farnam Beamonte.  
Henry Hunter.  
Lewis Fletcher.  
William Benwenie.  
William Bond.  
Edwine brown.  
Richard Hill.  
Thomas Merthat.  
William Davis.  
{fleur-de-lys} Nicholas Peninge.  
John Parker.  
{fleur-de-lys} Joseph and Robert Keble.  
{fleur-de-lys} Humphrey Brown.  
{fleur-de-lys} Cordewell Farrington.  
{fleur-de-lys} Richard Milward.  
{fleur-de-lys} John Smith.  
Alice Gilman.  
Henry Poulsted.  
Will. and Anthony Battman.  
Job Throgmorton.  
James Davison.  
{fleur-de-lys} Robert Davis.  
Nathaniel Brandon.  
{fleur-de-lys} William Ashwell Alderman  
Mate laurence.  
Richard Cutlett.  
{fleur-de-lys} John Langly.  
{fleur-de-lys} William Limbrey.  
{fleur-de-lys} Willi●m Edwards.  
James man.  
Eliz●beth Harvy.  
Thomas Newson.  
William Bower.  
Joseph Beamonte.  
{fleur-de-lys} Thomas Dorkely.  
{fleur-de-lys} Humphrey Bowater.  
{fleur-de-lys} Sir Thomas Soame●.  
{fleur-de-lys} William Harlowe.  
{fleur-de-lys} John Rowles.  
George Frers.  
{fleur-de-lys} Richard Cranely.  
Ben. Alben.  
{fleur-de-lys} Sam. Moyer.  
{fleur-de-lys} Bennet main.  
Joseph Brand.  
{fleur-de-lys} Hugh Norris.  
Tho. Jordon.  
{fleur-de-lys} Tho. Barnardiston.  
Francis Michel.  
Christopher Merricke.  
John Bridges.  
Cap. Morris Enterlop●r.  
John Wattkins.  
William Herles.  
John wild.  
{fleur-de-lys} Thomas Hodges.  
Francis Wych.  
William Dennis.   
Sackvile Crow.   

¶ Sir Sackvile crows Warrant to prohibit English ships to lad or depart.  
WHereas wee have heretofore in the name of the Grand signior been required by the Vizier, to will and command that none of the ships of his Majesties subjects whatever, coming into the Ports of Constantinople or Smyrna, should depart; or any ship coming into the Port of Smyrna should lad or take aboard them any Goods or merchandise, or bee dispeeded thence, until licence from the Port, and our order thereon and in that behalf: And whereas the said pleasure of the Grand signior, as well by his own Imperial Commands, as by the Capt. bassas letters, and our Orders thereon, have been signified to the Consul and Nation at Smyrna, and to the several Masters of ships there; And that yet some of them still continue lading, and notwithstanding have since such Order and Command, dispeeded some ships from that Port, to the hazard of the lives and fortunes not only of them that have so laden & been aiding to the dispeeding of such ships, but thereby given scandal to the sincerity of his Majesties friendship, and such jealousies thereon, as( in these times of war and Difficulties) may endanger a rapture between the Kingdoms, divers of the ships of his Majesties subjects at present being joined with the Venetian Fleet; and actually in consort with them, lying and attending at the mouth of the Hellespont, ready to give the Grand Signor's Fleet battle at their own doors, and issue out of ther Ports. You are hereby required once more strictly to inhibit, and in his Majestie's name to charge and command all & every of his Majestie's subjects, Masters of ships riding in the Port of Smyrna whoever, to forbear taking on board their or either of their ships or vessels, any Goods or merchandise for the account of English or other whoever; and that they depart not the said port, until wee shall bee able to procure and signify other and further order in this behalf; as also to signify unto and require all and every of his Majestie's subjects residing in Smyrna as Factors or others, that until such licence and signification as aforesaid, they and every of them forbear to lad or cause to bee laden on any such ship or Vessel that now is or may hereafter come into the said Port within the time aforesaid, by themselves or any other directly or indirectly, any Goods, merchandise and other Estate whatever; as they and every of them doing the contrary will answer it, and the damages that may ensue at his and their utmost perils; and if any of them, Masters of ships or Factors, or other his Majestie's subjects whoever, after publication or notification hereof before witness, shall refuse to obey and do contrary to this Our Order, or any part thereof, you shall proclaim him and them and every of them( so disobeying and doing) Rebels, and out of his Majesties protection; and thereon signify his or their and every of their names to Us; to the end wee may proceed against them and every such accordingly. For which this is to bee your Warrant.  
Dated in Pera of Constantinople this 6th of May, 1646. To Our very loving friends and Servants John Hetherington and Lorenzo Zuma, or either of them. Sackvile Crow.   

¶ Sir Sackvile crows Letter to Jo. Hetherington in Smyrna, May 7. 1646.  
Jo. Hetherington!  
I Have this day received Letters from Smyrna of the 22. and 25. of April, find thereby that Porter was not then departed; that the Chouz with the Druggerman were arrived; that all they or Mr Lancelot had done, was by a Letter rather to sand him away than summon him, for ought I can discern to the contrary: wherein he had intimated to him the Grand Signor's pleasure and my Order for his stay. In fine a piece of the old story, others not being to bee expected from one so deeply interested in the others lading. In conclusion, I find jordan come into that Port also unladed, and to have contracted for his lading there, without regard to his promise or my engagement for his lading here; and that also by Mr Lancelott's persuasions, contrary to the others own resolution,( as his Letter relate's) the meaning whereof can bee no other, than that he and the Nation have been working, whilst he hath endeavoured to make me believe otherwise; viz. the carrying of all out of the country, and defeating the Leviation, &c. for thats the very language of the Nations meaning, whilst they desire 4 moneths time yet for payment,( as those that have advice of that resolution pretend and say); but I have not yet received their general Letter, though divers Copies thereof are come to Town, which is a Riddle also.  
Upon the premises I shall not find cause to alter any part of your Instructions, but second it in all as well form as matter; viz. First to proceed with that business of Porter and his Laders, to clap them up and make them and their Estates sure, as directed; then to proceed to the Leviation; and after to let the other fall in of course, and take it's place in time. Only one Caution I shall think good to add, that in case there bee not or you cannot get a resolution for the Leviation by a general consent in Court, with a Pawn for payment, in such manner as is directed; you need not trouble yourself with that, but according to that List and Schedule annexed to the Order for Leviation, proceed to a sequestration and possession of every mans particular apart, not regarding the Consent of the whole, by staying or looking to an Act of Court of their assent there; for you must know that this is an Order for execution, and an Act of Justice, proceeding from me as his Majestie's Commissioner, and you are to govern yourself accordingly, and as men sent on such an Errand; and n●t to treat or capitulate beyond your I●structions, and so you are to let those people know in occasion.  
Mr Edwards hath given order for his part of the Leviation money by Mr Piggot; who even now makes tender of it to me, and happily will think much to bee arrested for that: But I take no notice of any such tender to me in person; the first Order runs for payment into Cancellaria by such a day; your Order goe's for Leviation and Charges for non-payment there; and( believe me) the Charges of their refusal at Smyrna, must bee born by them of Smyrna, and not by me or the Nation here. But leaving that dispute aside,( as a thing by the by) in case Mr Edwards should object this as a reason of his, for avoiding his part of the Charge, or for giving Caution; you may say that until it bee certified to you, you can take no notice of it, neither spare him nor any other, but in the mean time are to proceed with him as the other: and over and above, in case he should( notwithstanding that Order of his before mentioned) bee contented yet to give in Caution by Pawn, as others are ordered to do, he proving faulty in Lading the William and Thomas, you are to proceed with him according to your Instructions and Command to such effect; for( I confess) I long to have him in my power, of all men in Smyrna, having suffered by him more than by any one there, except one that you have advice of.  
To conclude, taking all you have to do into consideration, I find you have a difficult part to act, and therefore you are to bee sure to take it by those degrees you are directed in, and to be sure to avoid the confounding of one thing with another, and in the last place to make your demand of Consulage, &c. as by your last Warrant, but not that neither until further Order,( I mean on the whole Nation).  
And touching that, of Lancelott and his Companion, to proceed by degrees with them also, or rather than fail h●e and his Companion coming up( as I presume they will, if not for the Leviathan, for having jaded on the William and Thomas contrary to order) you may let that pass till their arrival here( having first sealed up their Warehouses and counting houses, as directed,) by the by however getting what advice you may touching their carriage of that business. And whatever you come to discover, shall act, or do; I pray advice me from time to time, & daily, or every two dayes at the furthest; for your intelligence will bee the onely rule for my future direction; not having further to add that I can think necessary at present I rest.  
Pera of Constantinople, this 5th of May, 1646. Your loving Kinsman and Master Sackvile Crow.  
I Have this morning by the Consuls Messenger received the original of the nations general Letter subscribing to the Leviation, desiring respite of payment for five moneths time; to which I give that answer you will find in the Copy of mine to the Consul herewith sent you; by which you will discern that I still drive the business to a Caution and pledge; and with all reason I may demand it, for by that time they may have conveyed away their Estates, or received some other order from England, and so frustrate the Leviation totally, & leave & the Nation here under the Debt and engagement; which you may let the Nation know I have no reason to admit of, and so not to contradict that order I have formerly sent, which is to demand your Caution for performance: next( suppose they would now pay the full, actually in hand to my Druggerman, you are to say, you have not power to take that neither, without like security for the Charges of their former refusal; which what it is or may bee, by their contrasts ensuing, I have not been nor shall bee able to set down in particulars, until I see the issue. Whatever it may bee, they may bee sure as I seek noe advantage in that, so I am resolved not to loose by it, and lay money out of my purs for their defaults; So if they consent on these terms, give you good caution into your hands, to bee put apart by you into some place under your power, you may consent; and having done so expect my further Order thereon: otherwise you are to proceed without more Ceremony in the way you were first directed; And so I once more leave that business, the rather finding that the nation here will not bee otherwise satisfied with their assurance, for ought I can discern, by those I have hitherunto spoken with; resolving to morrow to call a Court, and then I am sure to find this opinion of theirs more confirmed,( as I am sure I must) when I shall demand all mine own moneys, amounting one way or other to near 30000 dollars, to bee presently paid; and to say truth, I am not resolved to expect much longer for it. You will by the enclosed see what I writ to Captain jordan, and if I might yet expect to find him other then a Tarpawling, I could wish he would yet take in such goods as might offer themselves at Smirna on this occasion, and come up to Constantinople therewith; from whence I would assure him as good a freight, as ever he had, better then he can expect from any hand in turkey without me. If you find him not too much otherwise engaged, or changed to be round since I saw him; you may sound him to that effect, having first in your power sufficient to lad him with for this place: If he refuse it; or accepting, give you not a cheerful assurance to comply therein, you are not to suffer him or any other to lad, until further order from the Port and me; but protest against the customer and Merchants whoever till they shall lad on him or the other ship in Port: If on this, for the better disguise of the business, he will bee contented with a Warrant of mine to press him to this service, you shall have that also; and s●, partly by denying his Lading there, on the one side; partly by Warrant and Command on the other, he may seem to bee constrained, and so for avoiding of greater Inconveniences, to embrace the offer; assuring him that in case his ship bring not up those goods another shall or a Carravan: If he shall have taken in any goods of strangers( which he pretends to bee in a treaty for) they may likewise be put onshore again, upon & under colour of command from me to desist the voyage; and if need bee I shall sand a Command from hence to that purpose also. If the Customer shall be brought to dispute the business, you may tell him other goods shall bee laden in the room, & those of strangers on other Ships now coming down, & pay him as good a Custom or better, with a 2d advantage to his Patron here: wherein( if Jordan consent) you are not to be scrupulous to assure the Customer, and so Jordan, some considerable advantage to themselves apart and beyond their Ordinary way; and this still to bee carried under the Cover of Command from hence, and my order thereon; wherein( save in that to Jordan) you are already sufficiently Warranted. And for that also you shall with these have Warrant and Order, effectual to bee made use of in such occasion, as by the enclosed; viz, 1. a Warrant, a new prohibiting anv others lading: 2. A protest against Jordan for not complying with me; which nevertheless I would not have you use or drive to the extremity, until further order, but seeming( as before that he continues inclined to his Majesties service and not changed from his former profession, by and with his consent, as before directed, to make use of them, as in public to draw him to it, as it were by an outward seeming force; If he dispute the loss of time, you may assure him, that it will not bee long but he shall have advice of an open Port and a freer seal here, then there; for the Gallies draw and are Ordered to depart the Castles on Monday or Wednesday next, and then the issue of that business will bee quickly seen: the time he shall spend in Demurrage between this and that, or her, shall likewise bee considered: which offers you must know, are rather out of some hope that Jordan may bee yet a little honester then his fellowes,( that is more likely to bee firm to me in my design) otherwise finding him or having cause to suspect the contrary, you may let him go as he is, that is to say not trouble yourself with looking after him or his Estate much; onely hinder him and all others from lading until I am Master of that I aim at; for upon your advice I shall make use of some one of these Ships here to transport my Wife and Family, and provide for the rest in time. God bless your proceedings, and my just endeavours to a lawful defence. whilst I rest  
May 7th 1646. Your loving Kinsman and Master Sackvile Crow.  
The manner of your proceedings with these Warrants must bee thus: First you must publish that for prohibibiting lading or receiving goods on board, as well to the every of the Nations Houses, as to the Ships in Port, and not refuse any of them copy; giving it into the Cancellary to bee registered, but taking back the Warrant to yourself: after this you will have a fitter time to treat with Jordan, and an occasion to make use of the other Warrant for protesting against him.   

John Hetherington's Letters to Sir Sackvile Crow, dated the 13 of May 1646. in Smyrna, of his proceedings to that time.  
Right honourable.  
IN mine yesterday,( if arrived) your Lordship will perceive how I did begin to disl●ke the Bal●uke: and truly, my Lord, not without cause, for except your Lordship had been an eye-witness to his proceeding, it will bee hard to imagine how basely covetous he is; and yet if that would serve his turn, having so large a Commission as your Lordship was pleased to afford me, he should not have been discontented, though it had been to the whole of what I had brought down; which rather to let the world see how much you are abused by those that provide you these men, or to let a business of so high a nature as this fall to the ground. But my Lord, I wish better to them, then to accuse or to blame any, onely my own hard fortune, that at my entrance into a business of trust, I should proov so unhappy, and bee so much abused; For as I yesterday advised your Lordship by this ungrateful fellow, the Consul with six more of the chief, were rendered at Justice before the Caddie into the Balouke's hands; who prrsently brought them home, and according to your Lordships order, wee desired him to keep them close, and not to suffer any to come to have any discourse with them, for prevention of some such design as was acted on Porter; and accordingly he did, and nailed up the windows to the Chamber, and promised me to carry them away as last night himself, for stay he would not; but after this, he suffers the Consuls Druggerman to come and treat with him, and for a present of Dollars 100 caused the windows to bee opened, and suffered his s●rvant and twelve Soldiers that wee had from the Castle to guard them, to let in the Nation for a Dollar or two a head, as long as they would come. As soon as I discovered his ways of treaty with these people, I  told him plainly, except he would immediately sand these people up to your Lordship, I must bee forced to sand an express to your Lordship, to lament, and that your Lordship may have Justice above: but I could get no absolute answer from him; sometime he would go, another time he would dispute, that they proffered to pay their money, and for that end he came; so wee were forced to let the Leviation stand a little at a stay, and to pretend those men conformable to that command in his hands, and were to bee sent up for lading of goods on the William and Thomas; and withall hath promised to give him when he is ready t● go, Dollars 500 more, if he will bee careful to see the business performed according to your Lordships desire and express; and till your Lordship shall sand another to assist us, wee will detain the Chiouz, sent with Jean Maria. The Balouke is now gon to the Caddie to take his Arze along with him, and at his return, I hope will either go himself, or sand the Chiouz with them; but whether he go or stay, I continue my humble request to your Honor, that with what possible speed and conveniency your Lordship may, to sand us some new supply, or else to this good cause and just demands of your Lordship, in my weak opinion, your Lordship may for the present bid adieu to it.   

¶ Sir Sackvile Crow to John Hetherington and Lorenzo Zuma, in Smyrna 25 May 1646.  
Jack Hetherington and Lorenzo.  
BOgus hath been with me, and hath so humbled and assured himself that I cannot but give him Credit once more; and you are thereon to take notice.  
1. That he hath promised, not to suffer either of the Ships in Port, to lad ought by day or night? until farther order from me, for strangers or others.  
2. That until then, none of the Ships there shall depart the Port.  
1. On the other side I have given my consent and promised, that what goods soever are, or shall come consigned on any Ship to that place Inward; he and you shall have full power to unlade and discharge their goods on shore.  
2. That for his forbearance and not suffering any goods to bee laden on either of the Ships in Port until order from me as aforesaid; he shall have his Custom for all goods already laden, or to bee laden; he the said Bogus declaring and making appear unto you for whose account the said goods either were, or should have been laden, and giving you Teskary for the lading of the lading of the same, as for goods that had been laden and paid their customs.  
3. That for all goods he shall discover of the English Nations to bee hide and concealed from me, in the hands, Custody, or Ware-houses of any Jew or others, & shall proov to bee such,( that is to say( English goods, and to whom the said goods belong) he shall have his custom for all such goods, and upon Consignment thereof into your hands by order of Law; For which you have Commands also, as if the said goods were and had been laden and dispeeded the Port, giving Teskarie as aforesaid.  
4. That over and above this, he shall have a present to such value, as you and he agreed on, and shall bee fitting his faithful compliance herein and his promises to  
Your loving friend Sackvile Crow. May 25th 1646.  
I find by Bogus, that he makes scruple to receive custom for any goods which shall not bee put aboard the Ships, which he pretends and would have me believe he shall bee better able to Master there then at Land: But I doubt him for this more then before; and for this cause have referred him to a treaty with you below, and promised him, that what agreement soever you make with him there, I shall make good to him, and bee obliged unto here; he promising to discover to you great things, and a vast Estate of the Nations in the country yet left; which I wish he may perform; but I doubt he will proov a knave in all.  
Yours as before Sackvile Crow. Monday May 25th  
Wednesday next about noon the Chouz, with these Commands necessary( Biza de Chouz whom Lorenzo knowe's) will set forward, and I hope in five daies after will bee with you.  
You may see what I writ to Captain Jordan, for his Letter is open, the seal volant for you, seal up when you have red it.   

Sir Sackvile Crow his full approbation of what John Hetherington, and Lorenzo had done; and his further Instructions to them how to proceed. Dated in Pera the 27 May, 1646.  
Jack Hetherington, and so Lorenzo,  
I Have seen and well weighed what yours of the 12th adviseth, with that of the 13th, which came not to my hands before the arrival of the Balouke Bassac, with the Chiouz and their Company; who at their arrival made terrible complaints of your severe proceedings with them, especially the Consul, who had prepared a learned elegy; but I cut him off in the midst by a short approval of what you had done, and  told them plainly 'twas no more than what I had enordered you, and that if you had done less, you must have seen me no more. I  told them I came not hither to bee made a slave for the Companies Debt; I had their Covenant to see that paid by Leviation, and that Leviation agreed by their own, &c. bade them welcome to the trouble of their own procuring, and so left them for that present to a better consideration, in the mean time put a guard upon them.  
This morning( they having since Saturday had the liberty of my house, and free conference with all that would come and go) they sand me a request as full of humility, as their first discourse was of vapour; with promise to pay in their parts of the Leviation; whereupon they have liberty, with a Druggerman and Janizarie to go amongst their Companions at Gallata, to gather in their moneys, but to return at night: Lancelott stays still in the house for the greater gravity.  
Yesterday I received yours of the 15 and 16, and to bee short, approov of all you have hithero done, with the moderation and discretion you have used in the passages therof, taking due notice of the vile proceedings of that ill Servant of the Viziers, and his Companion the Chouz; upon whose arrival, and receipt of your former, I prayed audience with the Vizier, and Saturday last obtained it; giving him thanks notwithstanding for the service don by his Balouke B●sh●e, acquainting him that some of those men were come, that others had hide themselves and their Estates, and so prayed as in the Command you will see direct●d.  
The Vizier gave me as gracious an audience as ever I had in turkey, and a further assurance of respects, then ever I had from any Vizier; with an assurance also of the Grand Signors esteem; which he spake publicly, and with intent, as I conconceiv, to do me Honor; which I the rather relate to you, to encounter that vanity I find in that supposition mentioned in the latter part of your last, touching what they either had, or might do towards you, that are but my instruments; wherein you may defy their utmost, as long as they themselves have ought in turkey, to purchase the contrary( if such occasion were:) but no more of this folly; wishing you also not to take farther notice of it, then to observe from what people, and what grounds this sort of language proceeded, or may hereafter bee like to bee voted, and to advice me as you have done in this, leaving me to provide for your safeties. In the mean, for what may concern the farther eonduct of your business; you are to observe.  
1.( As in your instructions) that you make the Leviation the ground-work of all your future work, for the better establishment of that Factory, as formerly inordered.  
2. Next, being informed that that Factory, not onely for avoiding of the just Debts for the public already contracted, but also for doubt of paying such expenses as may bee necessary for the support of the public charge in future, have concealed much of their Estates, and intend to convey it and themselves out of the country,( as some of them of late have done) you are to use all possible diligence to discover what Estate of the Nations remaines yet in that Factory, in their own, or others possessions, the particulars, and to whom it belongs, to sand me a List in a Schedule, or( if not that) as near an estimate thereof as you can get; and in the mean time to take what care you may( agreeable to your former Commands and Warrants) that no part thereof bee transported, until farther order from us in that behalf.  
3. Whereas there are two English Ships in Port, expecting their freight there; and that wee are informed they lad away Goods of the Nations in strangers names, by connivance with the Customer, and his servants there in the night; you are strictly to prohibit the Masters of the said Ships to take in any Goods, especi●lly the Jonas bound for England directly, and the like Captain Jordan, who pretends to lad for Italy; and Strangers accounts, but under that colour, to carry away the Nations Estates, before Order taken for our future subsistence; intending thereby under pretences of the dangers of the times, to leave us destitute and naked of all future means of subsistence: For prevention of which( as well as to procure means for payment of the present Debt) you are chiefly employed, and are to apply your whole endeavours accordingly; and( agreeable to your former Warrant and Instructions) if any of the Masters or Factors shall attempt ought in contra, until our farther Order upon your future advice, and till wee bee better secured in the premises, you shall declare against all such as Rebells; and apprehended all such persons whoever, and sand them to us together with their accusutions, to bee proceeded against accordingly.  
4. To secure your selvs the better against those doubts you make of the Captaines resistance; suspecting any such thing, and having discovered in whose hands they have any Estates, or for whose accounts the Captaines, or either of them have any Estates on Board; you shall cause such of their corespondents, and interested at Land, to give good caution and security for them and it, by pledge of other Estate,( for you are not to trust to any personal security insuch case whatever without a good and considerable pawn to the value, and proportionable to the doubts & occasions,) and for this and you are to look out carefully, for such Estate as Jordan, & the other have on shore in any of the Factors hands by way of Hypothecation, or otherways; and what Goods or Estate any of those on shore, or here, have on board the Ships there; and to make attachment and sequestration thereof, to the said ends aforesaid, until further Order from us in this behalf and if need bee, carry them before the Caddie to cause them comply with the Command, or stand committed into your own custodies and the Chiouzes.  
5. What you have don to the Caddy, and his Servants, wee approv of, and desire you to continue him yours, and so all his, or any of the chief of the Town; whatever it cost you; for their better persuasion whereunto( besides what you shall give, or present on that occasion) you are to let them, and so the generality know, that the chief end of all this, is but to secure the Trade for the future; there being a design amongst many of them to carry, all out of the country, for fear( as they pretend) in these times of war, and to leave the Ambassador alone; And that our ends are( by keeping a good Estate in the country) to secure the peace, and continue the commerce; which you may boldly affirm, since my coming into the country,( within these 8 years) is doubled well near to what it was; and they see by my care it daily increaseth.  
6. If any of the Nation after payment of their parts of the Leviation, or giving you caution therefore, should desire so to bee at liberty, to lad their other goods; you may not permit that, till further Order as before declared; And this for the reasons before specified, viz. That I must bee first secured, in some reasonable measure from the Nation( which is now upon consult also here) how wee may subsist for the future; or in default of the Companies performance, and going on with their Trade, may free, or secure my Hostages; and in the mean time, how myself, Secretary, Druggermen, and Officers may, or shall bee provided for.  
7. For the better understanding hereof in public, you may cause the Caddie, and so his people to divulge this,( as really it is) to bee( besides payment of their Debts,) the true scope, and chief meaning of this our strict care, and proceedings; for better evidence whereof, you may observe to them the escape of some of our Merchants already, and the carriage of Porters ship, departed in the manner it did; and thereon you may say to them, that if I have not better observance or security from my people for the future, I shall bee ill able to answer for them to this State, or for their actions at home, or preserve the Peace, for which I am principally sent hither; for which, though the Merchants manage the Trade, 'tis I that govern and protect it, that have power to increase or diminish it.  
8 Having the Commands you shall herewith receive, you are to desire the Caddie to publish to the Ships and Nation, and so likewise to give notice to the Customer, and all Officers about the Marine, That neither the Ships presume to take on board any other Goods, nor depart the road with those Goods they have, nor any English Merchant or other, whether of his Majestie's, or Subjects to the Grand signior, or others, put on board any Goods or merchandise whatever, on any English ship or Vessel whatever in that Port, until our farther Order, agreeable to the Commands; wherein, and for effecting whereof, or discovery of the contrary, you shall not spare any cost whatever, to the Caddie or his Ministers, the Customer or his Servants, Jews, Waiters, Boatmen, or other Officers whoever by you used, or to bee used in the premises.  
9. What Money you shall want, you may take up either of the Customer, or other whoever( where you can find it) and cause it to bee charged upon Mr South; for which the money is ready by me, if it should bee for 10000. Dollars.  
10. Lastly, if the Customers should make opposition, or scruple; you( as I formerly advised and secured you) may promise him his Custom for any Goods whatever you shall bee possessed of by his means or discovery, with a Present to boot, and to his content; and then I know none have to complain, but my Master's own Subjects, who by the Capitulations, Fettfaw, and Commands in your hands, ought to bee under, and subject to my Judicature onely, in things depending between themselves, or relating to my Government.  
11. Bogus, since my writing thus far, hath been with me twice; but he is either such a fool, or such a knave, or both, at least so unconstant, that I find no great likelihood of certainty in him; so have left him to you to treat and conclude with him there, as you shall find occasion, and bee fittest for the service; as by the Postscript in the Copy of that Letter given him for you and Lorenzo.  
12. I long to hear in particular what you have discovered and found out; at least an estimate of the value of that you may suppose to find there, and to whom belonging; which I desire with the first opportunity to bee advised of. Bogus pretends much that way, and I wish he may discover what he promises, and( whether true or no) says, that little of that which remains in their own Warehous●s belongs to the Merchants, but to Turks, and Jews, &c. and that all or the greatest part of their Estates is conveyed into Turks, Jews, and Armenians hands; thinks that the best way to make a true discovery, and to get possession of the right( as soon as the Nation had given satisfaction to the Leviation) would bee to make a show of retiring and going away, and to stay a daies journey or two out of the Town, and that thereupon they would soon bring back all their Goods to their own Houses; but at this distance I cannot so well direct you, nor otherwise, than upon receipt of those Commands I now sand you, to seize what you can first, and after watch the rest as wall as you may; and so secure something to Us for a future b●ring; for Wee are now on the Stage, and must through with it, or( for ought I discern of their good wills) want a being here another day: these people, as fast as they can, packing and conveying all away; and for the present also( with such difficulties as you see) contending the payment of their own debts; not caring to leave Us, and our Hostages, Servants, secretary, Druggermen, and all, destitute in this savage place; without the remorse of men, less of Christians, which they hardly appear to bee.  
13. Bogus at his parting from me, gave me assurance, that( in case I would) he could and would take from the Masters of Ships there their Sails and Rudders; but I would not assent to that, without your approbation therein; who by being on the place, will bee better able to judge of the possibilities, conveniency, or inconveniencies of such an attempt; nor would I advice it, but in case of extremity, or upon a just suspicion of some design to sand away the Ships, or upon proof of their Lading contrary to Order, by night or otherways, whereof you are to bee careful; and in occasion( seeing Bogus give way to the Ships lading, or the Ships lad contrary and without him,( as lad yet I hear they do) and under the colour of Strangers names endeavour to convey all away) you shall repair to the Caddie for counsel and help, and take licence and Order from him, with some of mine and his people to watch by boats in the night, and thereby the better secure their future endeavours; for which you need not spare any reasonable cost to the Caddie or Waiters; and therein I am confident Bogus will not oppose, but farther you; if he do not, upon the least advice I shall begin anew with him.  
14. For your better assistance yet, and to the endl may leave no way unthought of, or you unwarranted or undirected to that end you go about; I have herewith sent you Warrant to require security of the Nation( especially those to whom any of the Ships in Port shall bee consigned, or any other you shall know to have estate of the Captaines in their hands, or to have laden on the said Ships) by pawn, to the value of their lading at least; and that the Captain or Captaines of the Ships shall not depart the place therewith without my leave and order; and in case any of them refuse so to do, you shall require their appearance before the Caddie, and there demand their Persons and Estates into your hands, especially of these Merchants and Traders left behind, viz. Davis, the other Barnardiston, Inglesby, Ball, and such other of them as you shall find busy in lading, or to have laden any considerable Estate on the said Ships, or to have any Estate of the Masters of Ships in their hands( the said Masters not complying and being obedient to my Orders in manner as directed) wherein( as I wrote Mr Jordan yesterday) he and the rest must pardon me, if I value myself and Hostages, at least equally with them, if not before; and the public before any ones particular: however in due time shall have care of him, that, and the rest also, and all as becomes me, if they will have but patience, and bee ruled by me, discover what Estate they have on board, and for whose accounts, &c. which doing, they shall see I will deal them that Justice in the conclusion, that they shall have cause to thank me. But if by the persuasions of others for private ends, they steer a contrary course: though Smyrna bee a great way off me, they will find by degrees, that I shall have means and power to reach them.  
15. Even now I am advised, that there is another English Ship arrived about Smyrna; the name I hear not of, but that by advice from within, the Ship should ride without, and resolves for scandaroon, and to discharge and take in her Lading there; for prevention, I hope to get you a command yet before the Chiouz depart, to secure that other corner also; least that outlet should bee more troublesome than the other.  
16. Lastly, upon serious considerations, and by all I can judge of by the discourses, fears, and contrivements of this place; I conclude that your shortest and securest way to your end( upon finding the least appearance of the Masters juggling with you, or of the Ships lading or departing, and not having a true discovery of what is laden on each of them, and by whom; or finding any of the Nation underhand assisting or abetting in any way contrary to your Instructions) will bee to fall presently to work on them that move or resist you, as by your Warrant herewith sent you is directed; which agrees with the Command & my Opinion, which is, that by delays, or a seeming retreat( at least until what is discovered be made sure, and these Ships bee made render what they have of our Nation on them) we shall get little advantage by suspending; however leave all to your nearer Judgments, according to occasion on the place, for which your Warrant is large enough. And so for the present I bid you farewell, resting  
Your assured loving Friend SACKVILE CROW. May the 27. 1646. from Pera of Constantinople.   

¶ Sir Sackvile crows Warrant to Jo. Hetherington and Zuma, forbidding the Lading of ships. 27 May, 1646.  
WHereas, wee are informed that notwithstanding several imperial Commands sent by the grand signior, and declared by his Officers Chiouses and others, accompanied with our Orders, warrant, and directions thereon, requiring,( for several weighty and important Causes) all and every of his Majestie's Subjects, and others whosoever to forbear lading of any Goods or merchandise on any English Ship or vessel within the Port or Scale of Smirna, or members thereof, and all and every such Ship or ships, vessel or vessels, to forbear taking any such goods or merchandise on board them for account of any whoever, and not to depart the said Port or members, without express Order and Licence from the Port and Us, in that behalf,( the Visier declaring us by several ways, as his Majesties Minister, accountable therefore) wee are certified, how by the Combination of some of our Nation with the Customer there, two or three ships have been already dispeeded thence full laden, and two or three ships more rest there yet lading and near laden, & ready to set sail and depart; and thereby leave us to answer such their Contempt and demeanour as wee may; without the least regard to his Majesties honor or Interest by Capitulations with this State, or the safety of us, or the rest of those of his Majesties Subjects, who are to remain in the Country. These are to pray and require you immediately upon receipt hereof, by all possible diligence to make enquiry after, search out, demand of the Commanders and Officers of the ships, or find out by the Customer or other ways, what Goods are laden on either of the English ships now in the said Port, what quantity of Goods and merchandise, and to whom the same belongeth; at least by whom and in whose names laden: And having found out and discovered the same, to make and cause the said parties( to yourselves, or in default by the Caddie) to give caution for the stay of the said Ships; viz. that they shall not depart that Port, until further from this Port and us in that behalf; And in the mean time you are to require the said Captains not to give any Bill or Bills of Lading, to any of the parties that have so laden any goods upon their said Ships: as they will answer the contrary at their perils: And if any of the Masters shall be refractory therein, and refuse to declare unto you all and every the particulars of such goods and merchandise as shall bee laden by them as aforesaid, or shall not forbear to give Bills of Lading therefore, or shall not forbear further lading of his or their ships; in virtue of the Commands now sent you,( and others in your possession) you shall attach and arrest the persons and Estates of the said Captains, and of all and every of his Majesties Subjects, who have laden ought on the said Ships, whether on board the said ships or on shore, wherever or whatever to them belonging: And for the better Discovery and execution of the premises, together with and by the aid and assistance of the Caddie, in virtue of the said Commands, you shall enter into all or any of the ships, houses, Warehouses or Counting houses; and there also seize and take into your power and possession all Books of accounts, Bills of Debt, Acquittances, Letters, or other Writings, Estate, Faculty, or Evidence whatever you shall find there, belonging to any of his Majesties Subjects whoever; and the same take into your possession, keep, peruse, and make use of in evidence or other ways, until further Order from us in that behalf: for which this is as well to bee your Warrant, as for all other matters and things you shall do and execute in the lawful prosecution of the premises, or any part thereof.  
Given at our Residence in Pera of Constantinople, this 27 May. 1646. To our very loving friends and servants Jo. Hetherington, and Lorenzo Zuma, in Smyrna. Sackvile Crow.   

¶ Sir Sackvile crows Letter to Jo. Hetherington. 28 May, 1646.  
Jo. Hetherington,  
HAving made an end of this dispatch near two daies since. I have stayed expecting, and until this hour do, the Chiouz; whom they pretend to stay for some Services of the Grand Signors, as they did the last: but I hope this day to get him dispacht, and so come to my private Instructions to yourself:  
1. Wherein( as in my public to Lorenzo and you, as also in your former) you are to make that of public show its face outward, and to come first in Action; the first part of that pretence is now almost finished, I mean the Leviation for Past-Charges; and when that shall bee fully finished, I resolve to begin with provision for the public in future; taking into consideration the distractions of England, the War at our door here, the French forces before Ligorne: and by all these a likelihood that wee may bee in an ill condition here, ere long: and therefore it will bee fit to look out in time, and provide some means at least, for future subsistence; wherein the Company stand obliged to the Crown of England by their Charter, and to me by their Covenant to make Provision.  
2. When this in hand is done, that other may bee taken order for; and in the interim, under the colour of the one and the other, the full of the Estate or most of it may bee discovered; and after this, I shall have opportunity to bring in my own pretences, for which you have Warrant sufficient and particular with you already; and this latter Warrant now sent you, will serve you for the other two— and former part of the business, viz. for finding out, discovery, and securing what you find until further Order, in what hands or place soever; However, I wish it by convenient degrees and steps, at least not finding occasion to the contrary.  
3. With the Merchants, in its time you may treat their reason apart, viz. that this concerns their own preservation, as well as mine; and that they may be sure before any Estate more goes out of the country, I will see at least how as well this, as that Scale may bee preserved; That a Factory, this a Residence, until it may pleas God wee meet with better times.  
With the Masters you may deal in another way,( if they or either of them deserve it,) viz. assure them a good and considerable freight, if they will but have patience; and so may happily also consider their demurrage, in case they behave themselves as they ought; on the other side they may bee sure, I will not overthrow so just and reasonable a resolution and design of the public, and of so near a relation to the preservation of all the Trade, Peace, myself and Hostages here, for the consideration of 2 or 3 ships particular accommodation, or their demurrage a month more or less; and if you find them not capable of this good Counsel and reason, or not so conscientious of the other as to prefer it before their own Ends, you are to proceed with them accordingly; for, I have no such obligation to either of them, as may seem weighty enough to balance the former.  
4. Now in case any of the Factory after payment of their Leviation money or security therefore, should desire to bee free to lad, or to have their Estate at Liberty; you are to tell them that by fresh Order from me, you have command to hold the Goods, and Ships as directed, & upon the grounds aforementioned, viz. till provision for the future bee mad; e this Leviation being alreayd eaten up and spent, before paid; and though you should have made any other pretence hitherunto,( though till further direction you had not Order at least to mention ought of my particular beyond the Leviation) you may excuse it lightly, and say you were merry with them, ctc. as they are often with me.  
5. If any should question the reason and ground of this proceeding now, that was never in President before, you may bid them and the Company thank themselves for a great part of it; for( besides the reasons before expressed) they have Ordered their Factors to convey away all their Estates, and to leave me naked here, and the General of the Trade at Randam, and every one to shift for himself; which I being advised of, have reason to look out as well for theirs as my own safety. Next I have heard of some Combinations against my particular, and shall desire to provide the best I may for that too; but bee sure you discover nothing of my own pretences, until the last, and that not until further order.  
6. You will in your Warrant, and so in the Command, find Order for rendering into your possession all goods aboard the Ships, belonging to any of our Nation; wherein I would have you walk with great circumspection; First to discover from the Customer and Masters what and by whom laden,( I care not so much for whose accounts, though if you can get that, it will bee well, and a further advantage; for if it bee for any English I care not for whom; or if by any English laden, I care not by whom:) then to sequester it: and that done, take Caution of the Master being aboard, and party to whom it belongs, that it bee alway forth-coming upon further Order; which if either the Master or Merchants shall refuse, you are without further respect whatever by the Chouz and Caddie to take them into your possession, as in your Instructions, and by the Command directed, which is to be your refuge at all times. In case the Masters shall say that they cannot tell to whom the goods belong till Bills of lading signed; they cannot however deny to tell you by what and by whom laden; at least the Customer if he will, can discover it, and you are to press either according to occasion; and if need bee bring them before the Caddy to that end; and( in case they refuse) there endeavour to cause them unlade a new; wherein the Customer shall not loose his Custom, you agreeing with him to that end.  
If they have not signed Bills of lading( as most likely they have not, for that is commonly the last work) discovering whose goods they are, or who jaded them, you are to forbid the Masters to give Bills till further Order; and if the Masters refuse or delay, to proceed against them according to your Commands, and endeavour what you may to get them into your power, or such of them or their Estates, or the Laders and their Estates, as you best can.  
7. In case of resistance or any Clamorous Hubub, as in Porters case, by the Mariners, you may require a guard of the Caddie, and promise payment for it to their content; or make use of the Castle to hold your prisoners in occasion;( for I shall little doubt to use Turkish help against those that oppose that authority of my Masters which I hold in turkey by commission: and I conjure you bee not scrupulous in that— what will come of it: However, look you proceed not rashly nor unadvisedly in any thing, nor suffer yourself to bee particularly provoked, and so spoil your Cause, but proceed always according to the Command and style of the plain, laws, and forms of it( where my authority will not serve) viz. by the Caddy and power of the place, & their own officers, whatever you pay for it, which in all occasion will bee your justification and mine: and they will second your proceedings with Arz and Maxars from time to time to the Port; which in occasion you are to seek and to back yourself and me withall: and for this end bee sure to keep the Caddy and those about him so much yours, as not to suffer the Merchants, Masters of Ships or other of the Town whoever, to have any: at least to such effect as may do you prejudice or the Cause.  
8. For search and entering of houses to that end,( though that bee the substance at the Command and shadow of this dispatch, and really the substance too, in occasion) you are to proceed in that with care, respect, and moderation also having good assurance by particular marks, signs, if you can, or witness touching what you go about and pretend unto, before you force or enter any place, for books or other things.  
9. Touching those four men principally appointed to be attached, you shall observe a fit time for that, that is either finding them lading or to have laden since order, or to conceal their Estate, or to have conveyed them away, and thereon take them into your possession, and if need bee( doubting their disturbance or future procedings in lading &c.) to sand them away immediately by some of the Chouzes servants; which, I know will not onely startle all the rest below, and give them new occasion to a better submission, then to think to conquer by a contrast. However have some such occasion first, or at least pretend it if you want one; for tis all one in this case, and I confess I had rather you sand these men away, then meddle with the Masters( if you can avoid it) for all their principal Traders and patrons being sent away, the Masters must then perforce obey or bee gon, as they are, laden or unladen,( which will trouble them more then all the o-other sort of force you can use to them.)  
10. You are to observe, or at least to demand in my name, and by my order, to whom this new come Ship is consigned; and from that Party or Parties demand security in the premises; or for default proceed with him and them as in the other directed.  
11. If Bogus perform not what he hath promised me( with a thousand oaths,) viz. if he hinder not the Ships from lading, take not order, and secure you, that they depart not without your leave and my direction first had; or discover not, or endeavour at least by some probable ways to discover such Estates of the Merchants as are concealed, or shall do any other trick out of Rule, or against you; without saying much to him or quarreling the thing there, sand me word by an express immediately, and by a horseman if to bee gotten.  
12. When you sand any express at any time, be sure you do it privately, for the Merchants there have way to intercept Letters; And I doubt that mess which your last promised me the next day following may have miscarried, for he appears not yet, it being four daies since the others arrival; The first Mess was twelve daies on the way, the last but eight. But I think I may thank the good Company for the formers stay, who were not willing he should arrive before them; sand therefore a servant a dayes journey out of Town with those you sand hereafter, and let none know of your sending away( not the Post-master or scape of the Messes) till your Letters are ready, and then see them sent away presently, as before, requiring him not to take a Letter from any else but yourself.  
13. Though I hope there will bee no occasion for you to doubt; yet I would have you circumspectly( especially if you should come to any contrast with the Masters of Ships) that the Mariners take no advantage of you by a surprise, or unawares do you an affront or mischief; you know what sort of beasts they are: For which respect( in occasion) you may by the Caddies Order have a guard of his Servants, Souldiers of the Castle, or janissaries, a dozen or more as there shall bee occasion: But I have no other thing that put's me in mind of this, but what you yourself mention in yours of their Bravadoes: However give them no advantage either by your doubts or over security.  
14. Lastly,( for I can at present think of nothing else material,) if you want or think you shall want money for your occasions, you must supply yourself by Bills of Exchange; for there is neither Credit, nor Bills to bee expected from hence, but what you have, or the Customer. In case it should come to a vie there, and the Caddie were to bee presented, you may secure him by part of the Estate, till you can get Bills, or I provide for you. And so being weary and late, go to rest, resting.  
Your loving Kinsman and Master SACKVILE CROW. May 28. 1646.   

¶ Sir Sackvile crows Letter to Lorenzo Zuma in Smyrna, incourageing him to bee faithful, June 2. 1646.  
Lorenzo!  
YOu know at your departure from hence, I gave you and Hetherington a private Commission sealed up, and not to be opened until occasion and farther advice; which being now confirmed unto me by the letters of the last ship which arrived the Port of Smyrna, I have written to Hetherington, and inorder you to proceed therein. By the Contents you will see the just grounds of that my Warrant; being but to let the Company see, that I have it in my power here to make myself reparation, in case they proceed with me in that barbarous way they have begun. What care and industry I have used in their service for these 8 years, you have in part been an eye Witness to, and they all know the rest; and now( without so much as declaring the cause) to proceed with me in the manner they do, exceeds the injustice of turkey itself. Lorenzo, I have ever found you honest and faithful to me, in all I ever yet trusted or employed you in, and I am confident you will not fail me in this that concerns me, my Wife, Children, whole Estate; wherein value yourself and service to me at what rate you will, I will recompense it, so you bee faithful to me; which by the Laws of God and that Duty you owe Him you owe me also as a sworn Servant, especially in this of my just Defence, as against the assault of believes on the High-way. I will say no more, for I know you honest and true, and accordingly you shall find me  
Your hearty assured Friend and affectionate loving Master, SACKVILE CROW. Pera April 2. 1646.   

¶ copy of Sir Sackvile crows Letter to Jo Hetherington and Suma, June 8. 1646.  
Jo. Hetherington and Lorenzo!  
I Have yours of the 30 of May arrived in six daies, wondering at the delay of mine, and your want of Order, pressing my dispatch of some further help and supply of Credit.  
Yours accuse the receipt of mine of the 5, 6, and 7 past; want the 17( which I also doubt miscarried) and mine of the 27. by Bizadee Chouz could not then bee arrived you, but before this I hope may bee.  
By him you will have received fresh and full Commands in assistance of your power, and by him directions( in case you wanted money) what to do, which way to repair your selvs; viz either by Bills of Exchange, or by some of the goods under your hands, in case those that promised payment there, complied not, & thereby gave you supply; for from hence I found no possibility of getting credit for money, and happily the Caddie would be contented( if for a reasonable sum) to take Bills of Exchange payable to some of his Friends here.  
For advice in what concerned the carriage of your Business; those Letters, as also mine of the 3 and 4 present( sent by a several expresses, as duplicates of each other) will have sufficiently instructed you, if arrived; as I hope before this they will bee.  
In adjunct to which I sand these confirming my former, with this addition only, viz. that you proceed to possess your selvs, as soon as you may, with what you can, and the same take into your power as pledge and security for the future provision of the Trade, and my indemnity from such unjust pretences as the company have raised against me. In prosecution whereof, you are to proceed by such gentle steps and paces, as may best and with least non effect your work, and yet secure that you go about: I confess I have required of you a large sum in my last, and when I came to cast up those damages I may sustain, the sum rather falls short of than exceeds my just doubts of their injust Endeavours upon what they have in their powers to prejudice me in, and I am certified they have made themselves Masters of in part: However I must content myself with what I may conveniently do, and not strain the cord too far, least it break and requoil upon me, to the hazard of that hold I had of more, and what I might have made sure of, and so must leave that still to your discretion to manage; with this Order notwithstanding, to take into your hands as much as you can of the finest Goods you can get; and where that fails, clothes will bee no ill merchandise, and so good security.  
The Murmur here riseth every day to greater wonder, where these clouds will dissolve and terminate, which I keep obscure hitherunto, though not unsuspected; the rather, for that they say Captain Jordan is coming up, of which I hear not though deny not but he may,( not complying and comforming himself as he ought) and so who else of those there upon the same occasion: and your Rule is such at least for those 4 or 5 principally directed in my former.  
As I promised you in my last, I shall begin my work here much about that time you are directed to set forward there; whereof within three or four daies you will be advised more certainly.  
To morrow wee shall have a Court, and I shall there lay the foundation to the work, assuring myself of a denial before-hand, of what I am to demand; and then you may imagine what will follow.  
My Demands will bee just, and grounded on their own Covenants, backed with Law and Equity, and so long I have seldom forsaken a good Cause; on the other side hitherto never pursued an ill, at least contrary to my knowledge and conscience, which by God's assistance shall bee my guide in this.  
I confess I like not so well your lodging in any Merchants house; for 'twill bee impossible for you to keep your designs from view, and your necessary discourses from the discovery of others in an others house, where you must expect to bee watched, and your papers sought after, and to have all possible art and intention used to circumvent you, though( I am of your mind) Mr Campion bee one of the best of them, however a Merchant still.  
Next I should bee glad to hear you were removed from the water side, that is out of mariners road, and( if in that place you rest in you bee so) you have done the better; but whatever you do, have a care of a surprise, and next of being betrayed through any sort of confidence, or by any mens friendship whoever; and I the rather writ this from some discovery made out of these Letters which came enclosed under yours, from that party you think most sure, directed to a friend of his here, which I keep by me against a fitter occasion.  
Beyond which I can say no more at present, having nothing of yours material and unanswered, nor further to advice, but that I rest expecting your further advice of what you have done, that I may proceed accordingly, resting  
Your very loving Friend, Sackvile Crow. Pera, 8th of June 1646.  
yesterday died the old Customer Alliaga; most of his Places here put upon Hassanchellibee, but Smyrna not yet disposed, of which I stand attending, least something might bee done in prejudice of what I have begun below: But of this you will hear more suddenly, and have fresh Commands and Orders as there shall bee occasion.  
Sackvile Crow.   

John Hetherington, and Lorenzo Suma, their Letters to Sir Sackvile Crow, advising further of their proceeding, Dated in Smyrna, 15. of June, 1646.  
My most honoured Lord,  
FInding some unwillingness in the Caddie, to cause those Goods to bee delivered into our possession, which lay sealed up under his Seal, by reason that a great part of them are pretended unto by Jews, Turks, Armenians, &c. Wee could not perform that promise wee made your Lordship, in our last, which was to give your Lordship an account the next day of what Goods wee had discovered, and of their value; but since understanding the Caddies mind by the late visit wee made him, have promised him dollars 1000, and to his sons dollars 500, and to the rest of his servants gratuities, to come either himself, or sand his Son with the Neipe to morrow morning, and open all the Warehouses of the Nation in general; and those goods which shall not appear to bee sold and paid for, to deliver into our possession, and the rest to keep sealed up until wee may have answer from your Lordship concerning this particular; the Language he understood better then our former, and hath faithfully promised, if his late indisposition would give him leave, to come and see it effected himself, or at least to sand his Son, and cause all the Estate discovered, that is not pretended unto by any Subjects of the Grand signior, to be delivered into our possession; and more, if the Master of the Jonas should refuse to deliver into our possession, those Goods aboard his Ship, to assist us with some 40 or 50 Souldiers, and to enter his Ship per force; which I vow to God and your Lordship, should he refuse to obey your Lordships Warrant, shall bee attempted; for besides the Caddies assistance, I am proffered very good assistance from one in port able to master him, but the man being a good subject, and a poor man withall, promising him some good reward for himself, and some consideration for the time he hath spent here, for his owners; I hope he will comply, and not run the h●zzard of so great a mischief, as his denial may occasion. Wee have employed the most cunningest Rogues in all the Country, to see if they can discover any other part of the Nations Estate either hide or lying out, but as yet they have discovered nothing, but hope when this hubbub is over, to find out something; in the mean time shall not bee wanting to use our utmost endeavours, to the effecting of it. If that report be true wee hear, that Hassan Chelobee, shall bee Customer, and Bogus return, wee may bee able to do something, though I fear not much. For though English mens Goods, yet in anothers Warehous, will find it a difficult business to prove it sold, and delivered and paid for, and will afterwards rather trust a Turk or a Jew, then let your Lordship have it. I beseech your Lordship, with the first to inorder us how to dispose of such goods as we hope to have here, and which of them must bee sent up; the chief Commodities here are Cloth, Silk, cotton yarn, Grograin yarn, &c. and they say in Master Lancelots house is store of tin,( but Mr Santhill's) I hear to the value of 40 or 50000. dollars; If wee can procure here dollars 100000. for your Lordships use, I hope it may help satisfy your Lordships demands, 'tis but taking the more above, if your Lordship can find it. If wee can possess our selv●s of the Jonases Goods, which may amount to dollars 50000 more, being as they say half full, and all fine Goods, the Golden lion brought Dollars 9000 to Barnardiston; I shall search narrowly for that, and have some good assurance to find out where the Money or Goods are; I wish my ability answerable to that servant desire I owe and bear to your Honors Service.  
This day arrived a Saitie from Marcellis, and brings hopeful news from England. His majesty being blocked up in Oxford, disguised himself, and with a servant or two resolved to run the hazard, and put himself into the mercy of the Scots, rather then stand to the courtesy of the Rebels at Westminster; and 5. of May, by day break, His majesty arriv d to the Scots Army near Newarke, to the wonder and amazement of them all, as by the Letter here enclosed your Lordship will discover. Where tis advised he was entertained with all obedidience; they presently gave the rebels advice of it,( as by the enclosed) who presently sent the Scotch many expressions of their thankfulness, and withall desired them to conduct him to Warwick Castle, and there to deliver him into their power: the Scotch denied it, and craved their excuse, His majesty being in their power; would first bee assured on what conditions His majesty should come, and if his majesty liked them, and was willing to go,( otherwise their pardon,) they were His Subjects, and must obey him, and would, and pretended they sought nothing, but the good of both kingdoms, and they did not see that His majesty demanded any thing unreasonable; upon the arrival of this answer at London, the Scotch Commissioners and the Roundheads differed, and the Scotch Commissioners  told them plainly they demanded things unreasonable for the King to grant. What issue the happy difference may breed is doubtful, but it is hop d may better His Majesties condition much, they begin at London to speak high language against the Parliament, and are doubtful because Lord Montross is marching towards His majesty with 12000 men. God increase his Majesties forces, and sand your Lordship a happy issue of your desires and our endeavours; whilst wee presume to subscribe ourselves.  
Smyrna, 15. June, 1646. kept till the 16. Your Honours most faithfully devoted and most humble Servants, 

John Hetherington,  
Lorenzo Suma.     

John Hetherington and Lorenzo Suma, their Letters to Sir Sackvile Crow, advising further of their proceedings, dated in Smyrna, 16. of June, 1646.  
Right honourable,  
YEsterday wee received your Lordships of the 4 present, being the Copy of the 3. And to day wee received your Lordships of the 8. and rejoice to hear your Lordship is in such a readiness for your just demands, and wish your Lordship less trouble, and better success, then wee this day have had, and wee doubt for many dayes shall encounter here: this morning the Caddies son, with his Neipe and principal Officers came, and wee began first with the consuls house, but before wee began 'twas spoken in the Caddies own house, & all over the Town, our design to seize what we could find; about 7 a clock his son came & entred the Consuls house, & opened all the Warehouses, and took from thence, with Elfords and Keebles, some 400 Clothes, & 9 Bales Mohairs; we left behind us 38 Bales of Silk, 13 Bales his servant pretended were sold by his master to Mr. Brent, to be paid by Bill of Exchange at Constantinople, and when advice came the Bills were paid, the Goods should bee delivered; in the mean time they lye in Mr. Lancelots Warehouse, with some 40 Clothes, 60 Barrels of tin, which tin belongs to Mr. Sainthill, and sealed up by the Neipe and us. Before wee had ended at this house, the whole Town was in an uproar, being fomented by Jews, and some of the young fry left behind, and proclaimed in the Streets, that the Town would bee undone, the Trade lost and go to wrack, if this was suffered; so that before the consuls door were so many of the scum of the Town, the Streets were packed thick of them. On the other side, a more unruly enemy threatened worse things, the Master of the Golden lion, who had before given Barnardiston 9000 Dollars at Cambio, and had no Goods in his possession, hearing how it would fare with them, lands 40 men at Barnardistons house, and vowed he would have his money or goods, or swore he would beat down the Town; so likewise the Jonas got her sails to yards, that the Caddies son and the Chiouz desired to let it alone, until another day, for fear of wors events '; so when they had made an end at Lancelots house, would stay no longer, but promised to come another day. The Estate before mentioned wee carried away in spite of envy, and have put it up in a safe Cane: as soon as this was done, because the Captain would not come ashore, I got Jordan to go a board the Golden Lion, and know the Master his intent, and to acquaint him with the danger might ensue thereon; all wee could urge was nothing, except▪ he had satisfaction for his 9000 Dollars; at last  told him, if he knew where his Estate lay, wee would endeavour to help him to it, so he found it out, and wee delivered it to him, and the man was very well satisfied. And now wee hope to find little impediment, and to morrow morning the Caddies Son promiseth to come again, and wee doubt not the same day but to make an end. If your Lordship saw the little regard these people bear to the Grand Signors commands, the Caddie, or ought else but their private ends, your Lordship would( as wee hope your Lordship will) not blame us if procured but the half of what your Lordships Letter mentions. To morrow( if God bless us) wee shall sand your Lordship more punctual advice, and for the present crave leave to subscribe ourselves,  
Your Honors Most faithful, most obliged and most humble Servants, 

John Hetherington.  
Lorenzo Zuma.   Smirna. 16 June June, 1946.   

John H●therington and Lorenzo Zuma's Letter to Sir Sackvile Crow; dated in Smyrna, 19 June, 1646.  
Right honourable!  
OUrs of the 16 advised your Lordship, how with the Caddies Son, his Niepe, and Chia, wee had entred the house of Mr Lancelot●s and taken into our possession the Goods wee found therein, not pretended unto by Strangers; and how by the insolency of Nicolas Terrick, Master of the Hopewell( ●ormerly the Golden Lion) wee were interrupted that day from proceeding any farther; and how by the means of Captain Jordan wee had pacified that young, rash, and undiscreet Man; and that we hoped the next morning to proceed without interruption, but it fell not out so: for the next morning wee went to Barnardiston's house, thinking to make all sure there; and when wee had begun, in comes the Master with a crew of his own, and said, those Goods he had received were not sufficient to give him satisfaction, and demanded of us the rest; w●e answered, wee could not give him these Goods wee had sealed up before he came into Po●t, for what he demanded; but assured him, if he knew of any thing standing out, wee would endeavour the best wee could for his satisfation; upon this, as wee understood since, a young man of the house whispered the Master in his ear, and  told him, if he were not satisfied before the Goods went out of the house, all was lost, he would never have a penny of it; upon this, away goes the Master aboard with this young man in his company, and loosed his sails, but threatened nothing; upon this comes in the Jews and  told the Niepe and the Chia, that the Master would shoot down the Town; but for all our persuasions that he durst not, away runs the Niepe and his Company, and leaves us there alone: so wee resolved to have done it ourselves, but the Merchants had so worked with the Hamalls, that there was not one to bee seen; so being alone, and seeing his Boat coming ashore well manned, and fearing a surprise, wee presently repaired to the Chiouzes, and desired him to go with us to the Caddies, to see if wee could have any better assistance from him. By this time the Town was in a great uproar, and the people something too insolent; the Caddie to prevent the worst, presently caused the Shops to bee shut up, and immediately sent for all the chief men of the Town,( who by presents before wee had made our Friends) and there before them all, and a great company of the townsmen, caused the Commands to bee red, and  told them how much they were bound to see the Grand Signors Commands put in execution, and what dishonour it would bee for one Ship to command the Town: so after they had disputed the Business, the Caddie sends an Officer aboard( accompanied with the Druggerman to the Nation) to know whether he would hinder the prosecution of the Grand Signors Command or no, and to know his answer; he presently denied he ever intended to shoot at the Town, onely desired his own; so presently after the people were a little appeased, wee went to work again, and so this day have finished all: it being done in such confusion, wee cannot give your Lordship that exact account you may expect, within a day or two; for then wee will sand your Lordship the particulars, with the valves, in mean time wee stand upon our guard, having some 20 or 30 of the Souldiers of the Castle to keep watch every night; for,( my Lord!) here is no small hubbub in the Town, and threatening both of us and the Estate, but wee will secure both as well as wee can. Wee have sent your Lordship a rough draft of what wee have, and what wee have left sealed up, and find it fall short far of what your Lordship expected: the sooner your Lordship disposes of it, the better; for assure yourself, there is daily some design or other hatching; wee should bee very sorry after all this to have it miscarry, therefore pray( my Lord!) dispose of it( to prevent the worst) as soon as you may. Your Lordship was pleased to inorder us to change ou● Lodging, being too near the Water-side, and in a Merchants house; which, as soon as wee can get a secure house, wee will; but the farther from the Water-side, the more dangerous, if the people of the Country should intend us any ill.  
The French and many others, pretend Debts of many of those people that are gone up, and would know who shall pay them, and pretend to bee paid out of their Estates; but wee have put them off, telling them, wee believe your Lordship will hardly let your Estate go to pay their Debts; nevertheless, shall advice your Lordship of it: so have secured none, onely to one Huzoone Amet Aga, one of the chief men in the Town here, Mr Lancelott having given him a Bill of Exchange for 475 Dollars, and the Bill returned unpaid, wee were forced to deliver into the Hangees hands for his security 10. clothes.  
Wee have given the Ships liberty to lad, by reason of their continual grumbling, but fear our design on the Jonas will not take; for the Caddie seeing the stubborness of Terrick, will not assist us as he promised. Wee have not ought to enlarge at present, but to subscribe our selvs,  
Your Honors, 

JOHN HETHERINGTON,  
LORENZO ZUMA.     

Another Letter of John Hetherington and Lorenzo Zuma to Sir Sackvile Crow. Dated 26th June, 1646. in Smyrna.  
Right honourable,  
SInce our last of the 19th of June, there has not much happened here worth giving your Lordship trouble in these busy times, nor any of your Lordships to answer; wee herewith sand your Lordship enclosed the Copy of what Goods wee have taken from the Merchants houses, authenticated by the Caddie, the Original wee keep here by us; by it your Lord-will soon see what will bee fit for Constantinople Market, and wee hope your Lordship will the sooner dispose of it: The led, tin, and wire will never vent so well here as at Constantinople, but how 'twill bee conveyed thither, wee cannot advice your Lordship; by Land 'twill bee too great a charge for so course a Commodity, and by Sea it will run too great a hazard, except we could get some English or French Ship to carry it up, but a far greater if it lye here, if that Rogue Moyer come in, before it and the rest of the Estate bee conveyed away from hence; for the greatest part of the led concerns his proper account, and find●ng two such Companions in Port, as the Master of the Triangle, and Hopewell, by his insolency( for your Lordship well knows how little he valves your Lordships authority) may so startle these discontented and affrighted People here of the Town, that wee shall have a hard task to oppose him or them; but if your Lordship please to clear the Estate from hence first, wee shall bee the better able to deal with them, and his Companions, when wee are rid of it; as for the Cloth, little or none of it will off here, the Town being so full at present, that may come up by Carravan; and if your Lordship think fit, the Grograin yarn, Mohaire, Wax, &c. Goods that are fit for Christendom, may bee shipped away from hence and consigned to whom your Lordship shall appoint, it's but changing the Covers, and new marking of them. Wee beseech your Lordship to bee as speedy in the disposure of this Estate, as with your Lordships best advantage may bee convenient: For my Lord, the truth is, wee do a little doubt the security of it, as it lies here, and were your Lordship an eie-witness to those insolences wee daily see here against the Caddie, and Grand Signors power, your Lordship would endeavour a speedy removal of it, as wee may seem to bee importunate to your Lordship. For,  
The Master and Merchants dare not trust themselves ashore, onely Jordan, and three or-four of the Factors that are good subjects to his Majesty.  
Wee have been forced to pay privately some Debts to the Grandees of the Town to stop their mouths; as that to Hazume Mamet Aga, for the Bill of Exchange he had of Mr Lancelotts, and was forced to give them a 11 Clothes for his Debt; so likewise to a Greek of the place, one that was servant to Monsieur Jean de Puii, who pretends Barnardiston is his Debtor 410 Dollars, he being in Prison; Monsieur Jean de Puii desires us to lend the man two Clothes, and he has obliged himself to us here, that if your Lordship allow not of it, he will bee responsible for it.  
Wee have been forced to deposit some of the Clothes for Dollars 1000, at 24 per Cent. interest, not finding any one that will trust us for Constantinople; and I hope this will serve our turns whilst wee are here: however, if your Lordship can furnish us with any Credit in occasion, it will bee the better.  
The last night arrive news here, that your Lordship has imprisoned the whole Nation at Constantinople, but from which of the Nations hands wee cannot discover, and how your Lordship makes large Demands upon them, and has declared Master wild uncapable of the charge of Consul, having taken the Covenant, which makes all these that are left here almost at their wits ends. Wee wish your Honour that successful Issue, wee are confident your just Demands merit in this, and all other your designs, whilst wee presume to subscribe ourselves,  
Your Honours Most faithfully devoted and most humble Servants, 

JOHN HETHERINGTON,  
LORENZO ZUMA.   Smyrna, the 26. of June, 1646.   

Another Letter of John Hetherington and Lorenzo Zuma to Sir Sackvile Crow, Dated the 26 of June, 1646, in Smyrna.  
My most honoured Lord,  
I Just now received your Lordships of the 22 present, by Sabanbasha, and with a heart as full of sorrow( though I vow to God no way startled, nor any way afraid for your Lordships ill success) as any living; but do much lament your Lordships hard fortune, to bee betrayed by a company of Rogues: Whatever becomes of us here,( let but your Lordship have your ends of those Devills above) 'tis no matter; that life, your Goodness hath been pleased to preserve hitherto, cannot bee better spent than in your Service, and except in his Majesties, I cannot think it better bestowed. I beseech your Lordship take no care for us, nor to much trouble your more serious thoughts for such doubts some may put into your mind of our safeties. My Lord, wee shall obey your Honors Commands in all things, and should I find but an unwillingness in my right hand, or a disobedience in it,( by the faith I owe to God) I would cut it off. So good my Lord bee confident, wee are  
Your Honours Most constant, most faithful, and most humble Servants, 

JOHN HETHERINGTON,  
LORENZO ZUMA.   Smyrna, June 26. Anno 1646.  
The Money mentioned in the Letter( accompanying this) to have taken upon Cloth, will not bee paid us, except the Owner of the Cloth will bee bound for it.  
Joh. Hetherington.   

Another Letter of Sir Sackvile Crow in Constantinople, to John Hetherington and Lorenzo Zuma. Dated the 1 of July 1646.  
John Hetherington and Lorenzo,  
YOu will have wondered much I am sure, why in all this time you have not heard from me, amid so much nois and ado; but I have been constant to my old Rule, I love not to trouble myself in hurlies of this nature, which must come to the rule of Reason at last. I have stood still to see these mad people spend 30000 Dollars at least, onely for a Command to release those Goods you have sequestered, and to bring you and Lorenzo up to the Port; and this they have not in their hands neither, it stays for the payment of Dollars 5000 more; and then I am promised another quiter contrary; which if the other should succeed to their desires, you may expect by an express, to bee there as soon as theirs, if not before; In the mean time I sand you here the Copy of their Arze to the Vizier; to the end the Caddie there may bee advised of their falsehood, and of their attempts against him here, which I will never forsake him in; and so you may assure him what ever it cost me; he having done nothing for ought I see or here, but what is justified to him by Capitulations, several Commands, the Viziers own Servant, and Chiouzes sent expressly to see it executed; on the other side, you may upon this make Mazars of the late insolency of the Nations taking away the Captain of a Ship out of the Consuls house every day( not having their will) menacing the Town with shot and arms, upon the least occasion; threatening the Caddie and his Officers in such sort, as that they dare not execute their Offices, and the Grand Signors Commands; with such other circumstances as you shall hold sit, and bee b●tter privy unto, and able to make good; as persuading the people of the place to mutiny and disorders, &c. insomuch that you were forced to require a guard, &c. for which, if need bee, you are to desire the Caddie in occasion to afford you Arze to the Port, and of your behaviour in that charge committed to you: I hope and doubt not but you have taken good witness of what Goods and Estates you have taken out of their Houses, &c. for amongst the rest of their Avaniaes and villainies they daily coin, they say you have taken from them all their Estates; which they pretend to bee sometimes to the value of 600000 Dollars; sometimes 300000; and sometimes 200000. I hearty wish it were but as much as the least of these sums, if not the most; whatever it bee, more then what you last sent me in yours of the 19 of June( if ought more, which I believe not) I pray sand me word, and by a Horseman always express; for yours of the 16 fell into the Rebells hands, and your last gave me no Copy of it. What noise soever you encounter, I charge you budge not out of your place, or posture; for the storm is over, and God bee thanked I have broken their waves. And I doubt not but you will see a calm game played for the after one; for which I have fair blots, if any of them hit; hitherunto it hath not cost me an Asper, for till the Officers bellies were prettily well filled at my neighbours, I knew they would bee costly guests on such occasions; now having been feasted with them a day, two, or three, I shall provide a banquet for them too, but at their cost( take my word) that are the occasion of my trouble. By the next express I pray sand me back those Accounts of Consulage I gave you John Hetherington under Brents and Lancelotts hands, and advice me whether you have learnt any more of those particulars red  told you of; and whether you have Lancelotts papers and accounts under your power; and bee sure whatever you have, hold, and make them safe. 'Tis a wonder to me I confess I hear not oftener from you, in your Instructions requiring it so strictly, and in every Letter putting you in mind of it; let me hear hereafter though it bee nothing but Duplicates, every three dayes at the farthest; and bee sure( if you sand about any important business) that you sand a Horseman; if with duplicates, by Footmen: you must sand some one or other with them, a day or a half daies journey, or else you may give them for lost; for these people lay all their ways they can for interception. I have not more to trouble you with at present, but to desire you not to bee troubled with these troubles and encounters, that might justly bee expected in a business of this nature, though not driven to this height; but the Sun itself hath its time of declining, and so Mr. Lancelott and his Gompany. God bee with you, and direct you, whilst I rest,  
Your loving Friend, and Sackvile Crow. Pera, the 1 of July, Anno 1646.  
POSTSCRIPT.  
THe Visier you see by the Arze enclosed, would have had the cause heard before the Caddielescars at the Turkish Law, but I sent him word they were strangers to me, and I had nothing to do with them: I knew no law here but my Capitulations; and when that was not known for law betwixt my Master and the Grand signior, I desired I might have leave to tell him so. Dominico, Dominico hath been the grand Traitor to me, and played the devil, the Arch-devill with me in this business, debashed, and frighted Georgi● and the rest from me, and stoll away my Capitulations and Records, and is now Secretary to the Apprentices of Gallata; where he and the rest keep close, and are ashamed to show their faces; for the very boyes of the Streets hout and scorn them for their falsehood. They were few dayes since at the French Ambassadors for audience for the Company; who  told them, that he knew the King of England, and had known them as Servants to his Majesties Ambassador; but he had not heard Master Company before; when he had had audience with the Grand signior, and knew what Country man he was, and whether his Masters friend or no, he would give them an answer, or much to this purpose: which you may tell for news of Gallata, from whence you will hear more ere long. S.C.  
Not being willing to stay the Copying and registering the enclosed, I sand you the original as it came to me from the Viziers.  
S. Crow.   
Thus far concerning the intercourse held between Sir Sackvile Crow in Constantinople, and his Agents John Hetherington, and Lorenzo Züma, with others in Smyrna.   

Now followeth the PETITION of the Nation in Constantinople to Sir Sackvile Crow, and his Reply thereunto; together with the Factors Letters in Constantinople and Smyrna, to the Company in London.  

The Petition of the Nation at Constantinople, to Sackvile Crow, dated 20 June, 1646. To the Right honourable Sir Sackvile Crow Baronet ambassador for his majesty of Great Britain, with the Grand signior.  
Right honourable!  
WHereas at a Court held the 18 of this month of June, 1646. by your Lordship and both Factories of Constantinople and Smyrna, after sundry debates, your Lordship declared unto the Nation that by several ways you were advised, the Levant Company in England had prevailed with the Parliament, and sequestered your Lordships Estate in Lands, as also were endeavouring to sand out to surprise your person, without signifying the cause wherefore; and thereupon your Lord ship demanded of us satisfaction for your said Estate, and security for your honourable person, leaving it in general term●s to our farther considerations, how and which way your Lordship might bee so secured; in the interim confining us to your house, whence wee should not depart, nor the Ships in Port bee dispeeded, until your Lordships demands were complied with concerning the premises, and the day following to sundry of us, who in behalf of the whole Nation repaired to your Lordship to know the particulars of your demands, made these ensuing Propositions: viz.  
That wee should in consideration of the aforementioned proceedings of the Levant Company, deliver to yoar Lordships hands good effects, to the import of twenty five thousand Pounds sterling, as the value of your lands sequestered; and to the import of Dollars 35000, for the clear benefit that might accrue by your Lordships place for 7 years to come, in case you should bee recalled, in regard his majesty had granted your Honor the embassy during your life; and the Levant Company conditioned to maintain your lordship in it, so long as his Majesty had pleased.  
Thereunto wee of both Factories do humbly reply: First, that none of us have any advice from England of such the Companies proceedings, nor do conceive they will bee so improvident for themselves, and us here under your Lordships protection.  
Secondly, that in case they should so have done as is denoted, though wee hope and pray the contrary, wee as Factors do humbly conceive our selvs not concerned for your Lordships seecurity, to deliver the Estates committed to our charge, nor can wee do it with safety to our selvs; so in all submissive manner beseech your Honor to take into serious consideration the Estate of our principals in England, their Wives and Families, our selvs here, with many thousands that have dependence upon our wel-fares under your Honors protection, and so to proceed with us, at may bee for the preservation of all; And as in duty bound, wee shall ever pray for your increase of Honor and happiness;  
Pera the 20 of June 1646. 

Dixwell Brent.  
Daniel Edwards.  
Samuel Barnardiston.  
John Pixley.  
George Hanger.  
James Moyer.  
William Osburn.  
Jonathan daws.  
James Davison.  
Thomas Berkley.  
William pearl.  
John tie.  
Roger Fouke.  
William Cough.  
Robert Pecket.  
William chapel.  
Giles Davis.  
Francis Ashwell.  
John Swift.  
Richard Stroude.     

Sir Sackvile Crow his answer to the said Petition, dated the 19 of June, 1646. being one day before the discovery of the Petition abovesaid.  
Gentlemen!  
WHat I delivered you in Court, and demanded as in your general answer aforegoing, I acknowledged for truth, and for the grounds of my demands then expressed for so much as to that day I had been advertised by four several dispatches touching the beginning of the Levant Companies endeavours against me in England, and here; but whether all or any of you bee certified thereof or no, it concerns me as little to inquire, as to believe one way or other: supposing it little for your advantage to confess it, if you bee; however, this I must profess, that the first alarms I had thereof in likelihood, were about three months since, and they came from some of your selvs, by name Mr John wild, Mr Thomas Berkley, John tie, and John Plumer, all of one house yet, and of this place: Moreover, by report from the three later, about that time, that there was an Ambassador, by name Sir Peter killigrew coming, who was said to have the Kings Commission, and other Orders to surprise me, and take my charge, &c. Of this latter news I confess I am not yet advised, though but this last week I was assured that Mr Thomas Berkley should say to several men of this place, English and others, it would not bee long before they had anothar Ambassador here, and then they should see great and strange alterations, &c.  
That securiry demanded of you in a case of this nature, I conceive the most improvident and inconsiderate amongst you( were it in his own) would hold it for reasonable and just, and where ever this cause shall come to bee referred, I presume will bee esteemed accordingly, as well by the Rules of Religion, as that natural policy and justice which every creature takes to itself, and for it's own defence; whereof( at this distance from resort to other justice, having the power of a judge, and a public Minister on the place) I intend not to bart myself, lest another day I may bee judged and condemned improvidently and pusillanimously guilty of my own unjust surprise, loss of my Estate, ruin and beggary of my Family, by such illegal and unchristian practices.  
Though you may say, and I deny not, that as servants and Factors you are not criminally bound to answer for the offences or injustice of your Masters; yet in actions of this nature, having Estates of theirs in your hands, by whose means the violence aforementioned is obtruded on me, viz. My Estate seized, my Person intended to bee sequestered, and Place violently surprised, without so much as intimation of the cause; I do in justice require security of you as servants and Factors to the Levant Company, by whom these things are prosecuted, and out, and by the means of their Estates in your hands, and to the value before mentioned, for my indempn●tie; which demand of security, I desire you to believe and credit me in, was not a begging question, but a mild overture to you, and a quiet prosecution of that rule of justice, whereby I have for near these eight years now governed amongst you; before I proceed in such course as the necessity of the cause would otherwise enforce me to, of farther prejudice, and happily inrepairable damage to you refusing; which I lay before you, for better consideration this, second time, desiring you to believe that this proceeds not of vanity, nor out of any relenting resolution, or want of power, from the least doubt of that dust some of you have improvidently raised to your own ruins, if I should pursue the advantage of the justness of my Cause; but merely out of that desire I have of your better accommodation in my safety: if you can by fair means, see you give way to it in the Propositions laid before you; and if not, that I may hereby( as in the sight of God and all his Angels) wash my hands, and free my conscience of all mischief that may follow, and of his ruin and misfortune, whoever complies not in his proportion, in that just way proposed, to secure me, and to free himself and the public Interest; to which end, if this bee not of force enough, you may bee sure of more: And so Gentlemen, without further compliments, or regret to the Person of any, I rest, as hitherto you have found me, and I desire to bee continued,  
June 19th 1646. Your hearty well-wisher, and yet assured Friend, Sackvile Crow.   

The factors general Letter to the Levant Company, dated the 28 of June, 1646. in Constantinople.  
Right worshipful,  
SIrs, at present wee have our heads and hands full, and all little enough to preserve your Estates from devouring, and ourselves from that evil consequence might ensue upon such unheard of proceedings and intentions, as have been long in private agitation; but when the Monster came to the birth, there wanted strength to bring forth; so in a good hour wee may say, the snare is broken, and doubt not the devices of the crafty is frustrate by him, whose Almightiness shows itself most, when wee mortals are least capable to help ourselves. Wee shall, according to our obligation, give your Worships some account of the last progressions of his Lordship Sir Sackvile Crow, whom his majesty sent hither Ambassador, and to bee a Protector of your Estates, and our Persons; how he hath performed this charge and duty formerly, your Worships have in part heard; what hath happened of late, wee shall now chiefly insist upon.  
After his Lordship had caused the stay of the ships in this Port and at Smyrna, under pretense of this States requiring it in respect of their Wars with the Venetians, the samson and Smyrna Merchant, having been here almost seven moneths, to the great loss and damage of Ships and Goods; he picks a quarrel with the Factory of Smyrna, for not complying according to his Order, in the payment of their parts of the last Leviation money; and hereupon sends down John Hetherington one of his servants, a most lewd, debauched, profane, riotous fellow,( yet his Lordships Kinsman) accompanied with two Chiouzes, two Druggermen, a Janizarie, and other Servants, to proceed with those who should refuse to pay their Leviation according to the instructions he had given the said Hetherington and Lorenzo Zuma Druggerman; but before the arrival of these Agents, the Nation there had undertaken the payment by an obligatory letter to his Lordship; this would not satisfy, nor deposition of goods for security, until answer should come from hence of the payment of their Bills of exchange which was tendered; but the second day after their arrival, Hetherington and his retinue goes to the Caddies, and thither causes the consul and all the Nation to come; where it was pretended they had laden the William and Thomas with Corn, and sent her away, and therefore by virtue of an imperial Command( very privately here procured) the consul, and six more of the Nation were delivered into the hands of the Chiouz, and so brought up hither, not being suffered to return to their own houses, but put a day and a night into an offensive dark place, the doors and windows not only shut, but nailed upon them, not suffering either their Friends or Servants to come at them, or a window open till the evening, for which also they paid Dollars 100. In this disgraceful manner they were brought hither, where they have been since the 22 of the last month, Prisoners in his Lordships house to the 21 present, notwithstanding they had complied in paying the Leviation moneys in less then a week after their arrivalls; and by fair promises put off from day to day, for their dispatch to their business Smyrna, which could not but much suffer by their absence; their Magazines and Counting-houses continuing sealed from the time of their attachments; the Ships not permitted to lad or depart, though empty; and no debts due to them would bee paid in this their absence and time of distraction.  
The Leviation moneys being satisfied( of which Dollars 31000, his Lordship forced into Cancellaria) and wee of Smyrna expecting no more rubs in the way, his Lordship the 16 instant calls a Court, and there declared, that of what moneys had been collected, there would not remain much on the old account; therefore provision must bee made for the future growing charge, for so much as upon this pretended imbargoe, no Ships would come in hast, and he and his must bee maintained, which he would provide for; hereupon, when wee could not do otherwise, Dollars 25000 was promised, half by this Factory, for which his Lordship caused us to enter into Bond, as he did those of Smyrna for the other half; this being effected, which we should not neither altogether have been so ready to have complied in, but thereby to put a period to all other demands, and enable ourselves to proceed in our business for your Worships better service.  
The 18 present his Lordship calls another Court, and after a●guing of some general matters, with a seeming sadness tells us how that he had been wronged by fals information from hence and Smyrna( but he was so far from proving it, as that he would not discover so much as whom he suspected) and thereupon the Levant Company at home, had by means of the Parliament procured sequestration of his Estate and Lands in England, and endeavoured to surprise his Person; and therefore according to Religion, Reason, and common policy he ought to secure himself and his Ho●a●es: and thereupon he departed from us, requiring the Nation speedily to resolve of some present satisfaction that might secure his Estate at home, and P●rson here, otherwise he vowed to God, he would sudd nly do it himself, with no little disadvantage to our selvs and Principals: These strange, unreasonable, and unexpected demands, filled us with amazement, not knowing what answer to give to such a groundless demand; wee desir●d the Secretary signior Dominico to know his Lordships more particular desires therein, that so wee might better understand him, and to put his demands into such a moderate way, as he might receive some satisfaction; he returned us answer, that wee must resolve to satisfy his aforesaid demands before wee went thence; whereupon the Gates were shut, and also Guards set upon us, that wee should not converse with any, or convey so much as a Paper out of doors. Thus wee are all surpriz●d, made close Prisoners, and our Counting-house, Ware-house, and Chambers sealed up, to make sure of our Goods and Estates there also: continuing in this sad condition all night, and finding no motion to proceed from his Lordship to declare himself farther, four or five of us was appointed by the generality, personally to crave his Lordships particular desires and demands of us; whose answer was, that the lowest value he could put upon his Lands the Company had sequestered, was 25000 pounds sterling; and for the loss he should su●tain by being put out of the Ambassadorship, which he saith his Majesty hath granted him for his life, therefore the Strangers Consulage he rates at Dollars 5000 per annum, which for the clear gain of seven years to come, is Dollars 35000. for which he declared that he would not accept of any personal security or obligation whatsoever; but a present disposition of Dollars 160000 in Money or Goods, into his own hands must bee made: And if to this wee would not condescend, he  told us, that at the last Sacrament had vowed to God( as he doth now) to sacrifice his Estate, Himself, Wife and Children, for the execution of this his absolute intent; and till then, neither our Persons, Estates, Ships here, or at Smyrna, should bee free. Wee  told his Lordship, that finding not any of us had heard of any such things was( or intended to bee) done against him by the Company, it would give us great satisfaction to show us those advices he grounded this pretence upon: To this no answer was then given by himself, but dismissed us, leaving it to our last and speedy resolution, because he was resolved to strike home. Immediately after, he sent us word by a second, that he could not let his Honour descend so low, as to show his advices to any; this empty reply gave us too much reason, not onely to conclude this to bee a feigned pretence, but made us suspect his intention and aim was at all the Nations Estate in the country; and therefore wee returned him this reasonable and defensive answer, as your Worships will particularly perceive by the enclosed Paper: whereunto is adjoined hit Reply to that our answer, as he pretended, though it appears it was intended before, it being dated a day before our answer. whilst thus wee continued, it happened that those four of us were fortunately absent from Court that day, who hearing of our conditions, wherefore, and why wee were thus detained, and what an ill period these proceedings tended unto, if not timely & prudently prevented, they used their best endeavours to free us and your livelihoods from the claws of tyranny and covetousness; they applied themselves to signior Illustrissimo Coppes the States of Hollands Agent, who as he was ever a friend and favourer of the Nation, so now he gave us good and great testimony thereof in this our greatest need and extremity: and chiefly by his means with a sum of Money; together with the clamours of the Jews, and many other of the Grand Signors Subjects against this our present abuse, and destruction of future Trade; The Vizier( whom they had well and fully possessed with the truth of all things) after three daies imprisonment sent a Chiouz for us to his Lordships house, from whence wee were carried before the Vizier, who much upbraided his Lordship, saying, he never gave him Commands for such proceedings, notwithstanding his Lordships avaneous allegations against his own Nation, by saying an English ship at Smyrna was laden with Powder, Ammunition, &c, and there resided for assistance of the Turks Enemies, and other the like abuses and destructive courses against those here, tending not onely to the confiscation of Ships and Estates, but the risgo of enslaving our bodies, if not the loss of all or some of our lives, had his hellish Plots taken effect. The next day after our general Commitment, arrives five more of our fellow Factors from Smyrna, there seized upon and made Prisoners, and so by his Lordships command, in that nature brought to his house, and put amongst us, notwithstanding the advice from their correspondents hence was at Smyrna( before their departure thence) that their part of leviation Money was all paid in here, yet their leviation, with l⅓ more in Moneys and Goods was taken again from them by his impudently impious Ministers there, and all the rest of their Goods continued sealed up: so the intent( as your Worships may plainly perceive) was no other than first to get the moneys here payed, then to seize upon their Persons, and next to take away and secure their Estates; thereby to prevent a just, reasonable, and natural defence; and now it too plainly appears,( because his Lordships imployers had taken course no messengers should come unto us;) Horsemen are daily dispeeded unto us by our Friends at Smyrna, advising us to the 20 instant, of the unnatural and devouring progressions they had there made, which was done by the assistance of the Caddie, whom they had well bribed, beginning to act there at the same time as wee were here all imprisoned, so there was no intent of staying for our answer to his extravagant demands. They first fell upon Mr Lancelots house, thence proceeded all throughout the Nation; so that they have not only taken away all the Goods, Moneys, and effects whatsoever they could find in their houses, at home or abroad, but broken open and ransacked all our Chambers, Trunks, and Counting-houses, which mounteth to a far greater value than his demands of Dollars 160000; and by large promises to Informers endeavour to discover and take what is owing them abroad by people of the country, and have so threatened our Friends and Servants to deliver our Books, and declare where's more of our Estates, that they are constrained to leave our naked houses to the open world, and betake themselves to the Ships in Port for refuge: All this it seems cont●nts them not, but are contriving Provisions by Policy and force of some Rogues of the country, to unlade what Goods the Nation had put aboard the Jonas. For all which, wee have not onely the advice of our distressed Friends there, but such infallible information as your Worships may perceive by the enclosed authentic Copies of Letters from his Instruments at Smyrna to his Lordship here; by which you will too plainly perceive his Lordship did and still doth aim at all the Estate the Nation had in the country; and for that cause he was so much enraged for the departure of the Hercules, and William and Thomas, whose Goods he esteemed as so much loss to him.  
Wee have been now seven dayes out of his Lordships hands, and are endeavouring to free that Estate they have already taken at Smyrna, as also to defend ourselves, and your Estates in future from him, and free the Ships out of Port( which no question at last will bee proved have been detained by his Lordship to this ill purpose;) And if possible, to procure the return of Dollars, 20 in 30000, his Lordship hath unavoidably forced from us in the Leviation account, upon strange pretences. All which( by the assistance of our obliged and worthy Friend Sig. Illustrissimo cups, together with the expense of Dollars 30 in 40000, to the Vizier and other Turkish Ministers) wee doubt not but speedily to effect; for without this honest defensive remedy, wee can expect nothing but ruin to all your Estate in the country, which still he threateneth, and endeavours by all his devilish policy and means to effect; but the Vizier, and the two Cad. deleskiers, who are our Judges, are so possessed with the truth and reason of our cause. as well by the people of the country, as ourselves, that they have given us full assurance by promises, protestations, and sound probabilities, that our just demands shall bee accomplished, for which wee all faithfully and earne●●ly endeavour night and day, and so do hourly expect a good determination of it; and till there bee an issue or s●ttlement given to this our confused condition( which wee h●pe will not continue for many dayes) no particular Princi●al must expect advice from any Factor here, because no private man can fitly advice any thing till the general Business bee better ordered: And as wee proceed therein, we● shall by all ways and conveyances give your Worships a true and exact account. Wee do humbly beseech your Worships to acknowledge the good Offices of the States Agent to their Ambassador with you, and so ●ully certify him that Illustr. Sign. cups appeared no ways against his Lordship as Ambassador, or trenching on the Kings Honour, but respectfully and modestly for the safety of your Estates.  
To particularise all passages and circumstances in this Business, would prove more troublesome than needful to your Worships, so please to accept of this Relation; for this is the present state of yours and our condition; which though not so well as wee could wish, yet better than wee could imagine: for the hand was up, the match lighted, and a little more time would have blown up all. Wee need not put your Worships in mind speedily to sand us another Protector, se●ing the necessity of your occasions craves it too plainly; and in confidence of your speedy resolution thereof, wee shall continue, hoping our desires will bee satisfied, and the Estates in better security, by his speedy arrival here, which God in mercy grant.  
His Lordships Cause is so bad, that signior Domenico your Secretary, signior George, and all other Druggermen, have not onely declined his Lordship, but apply themselves to us,( and especially the former). In fine, wee conceive his Lordship finds his former bad Proceedings have made him uncapable to return into England, and also uncertain of his Residence here; which, together with the improvident use he hath made of his golden time, that he intended to seize upon all he and his unworthy In●●ruments could catch hold of; for to this purpose he diverted the Golden Fleeces advantageous design for Venice; which at first was approved and cau●ed by his own consent, and occasioned her Factor here, to whom shee was consigned, to let her him to freight, that so Hi●sel●, Family, and undue gott●n Estate may be conveyed( as is ●uppo●●d) into France, with whose Ambassador, there hath been often a more than ordinary correspondency of late.  
Gallata of Constantinople, June 28. 1646.  
Before the sealing up of our Letter, wee have procured an Imperial Command for the recovering of the Estate into our hands, taken away at Smyrna; as also for the attaching the Persons, and bringing up of those good Agents of his Lordships hither, to answer their proceedings and behaviour: the obtaining of which command, wee are not a little glad of, being our obligatory Testimony of the Viziers being our friend, and ties him thereby to continue so, which wee hope effectually to find, two daies hence, when his Lordship is to appear with us before him; but in case he refuseth( as already he hath don) the Vizier will give sentence against him.  
Your Worships may bee pleased to take notice, that his Lordships chief counselor, in these his undue proceedings, is Mr Henry hide, of whose good service in your former occasions at the Morea, wee need not to give testimony; but can assure your Worships, that since his coming hither, he hath occasioned great disturbance amongst the Nation; and now at last,( had the design before mentioned taken effect) might have raised his decayed fortunes, by the ruin of yours and our Estates; but thanks bee to God, the Counsel of Achitophel is turned into folly. And for your late Treasurer John wolf, the satisfying of whose debts hath so mounted the last leviation, he is so far from acknowledging the courtesies done in acquitting him from his Creditors, that he is become assistant( though a weak one) to his Lordship in the proceeding aforementioned; And having deserted Gallata, with Mr Henry hide, resides at his Lordships, laying their heads together in contriving mischief against those from whom they have had their maintenance.  
In case your Worships should not bee in a posture to procure an Ambassador so soon as you may desire, that you would pleas in the interim, and as soon as may bee to obtain a Letter from his majesty to the Grand signior or Vizier, in approbation and acknowledgement of what is done; and that his Lordships bee not nimbler then your Worships in getting the like against us which doubtless he will endeavour. Wee shall not farther enlarge at present, but intend shortly, when all things shall bee fully and absolutely settled, to writ to your Worships again. So wee rest.  
At instant a copy of his Lordships Letter, with others directed to him, being come to hand, wee sand them herewith? and from Smyrna are advised that the persons of Hetherington and the Druggerman are detained aboard our Ships there; and by this time the Command is with them, which will warrant the bringing them up, with their Papers that are also aboard; per which the Plot will more plainly appear. To morrow wee expect his Lordships appearance before the Vizier, when wee have hopes to reward the trouble he intended others, &c.  
Kept until the 6 of July, 1646. Your Worships most obliged and humble Servants. 

John wild  
John Lancelott  
Nicolas red  
William Ashley  
Tho, Berkley  
Dixwell Brent  
Nath. Barnardiston  
James Moyer  
James Modyford  
Daniel Edwards  
William chapel  
Roger Fouke  
Gyles Ball  
John tie  
John Ball  
William Pearl  
John Pixley  
George Hangen  
Samuel Barnardiston  
John Swift  
William Gough  
Thomas Pigot  
John Abney  
Francis Ashwell  
Robert Frampton  
Gyles Davis  
John Plomer  
james Davison  
William Osburn  
Henry Davy  
Richard Strode  
Philip Farewell  
John Erisey  
jonathan daws  
Ralph Gosnold   Your Worships most obliged, most humble, and faithful servant Domenico Timone Secretary.   

The Factors general Letter from Smyrna, dated the 4 of July, 1646. to the Levant Company.  
Right worshipful Sirs,  
IT may pleas you, our last from hence was per the ship William and Thomas, advising his Lordships proceedings for another leviation for discharging your Debts at Costantinople, being then informed that the whole amounted unto Dollars 118109; and how wee were resolved to withstand it, until your Worships further pleasure should bee signified unto us concerning the same, for such reasons as wee then presumed to lay open unto you; and that in the mean time wee had presented our grievances to his Lordships gracious perusal, the Copy whereof went annexed to our said Letter, to both which you may pleas to have reference.  
The 24 of March following, our Consul called a Court, and declared his Lordships answer to our said Letter, disliking our proceedings; and by a new Order prohibited the lading of Goods, and receiving them on board, and the departure of Ships, until the said leviation were paid according to his former Order, and Schedule now sent down, showing each man his proportionable part for this Factory of Smyrna, amounting in all to Dollars 54950, and for the Factory at Constantinople, to Dollars 56000; is together Dollars 110950. Whereupon, wee generally desired that his Lordship would bee pleased to suspend the execution of the said Order of leviation, until such time wee should receive your Worships farther Order about it, without which, wee our selvs were like to pay it out of our own Purses, as in the last leviation; receiving since particular Orders from some of our principals, not to pay any leviations, otherwise it should bee for our own accounts, and not theirs.  
The 24 of april, the consul called another Court, signifying unto us that his Lordship did require an account for the departure of the Ship William and Thomas, and Success, contrary to his Lordships Commands, there being an Officer of the Viziers come down to apprehended Captain Tho. Porter, and to carry him up to Constantinople( which Ships departed at their own pleasures, being not in our powers to stay them.) And that concerning the leviation it was inevitable, and his Lordship was resolved upon it, and therefore would source us unto it, and expect repair of Honor from the Delinquents; whereupon fearing his Lordships farther displeasure, which might beget some greater inconveniencies amongst us, wee presumed to yield unto his Lordships Commands, by way of a submissive orderly compliance, and comform our selvs unto the payment of our parts of the said leviation, in proportion to the Estates wee received on the last-general Ships, Hercules, samson, and Smyrna-Merchant, according to our particular assessments; as appeareth by our general Letter presented his Lordship, and entred in Cancellaria, grounded upon the result of this dayes Court; desiring his Lordship would bee pleased to allow us four moneths time for payment, for such reasons as wee have alleged in the same.  
The 6 of May, the consul  told us he had received other letters from his Lordship, prohibiting not onely the lading of Goods, and the departure of any Ships, until the leviation bee settled; but also therein more fully signifies and declares, that until the Grand Signors Fleet bee gone forth he canno● permit any Ship, either at Constantinople or here, to lad or bee dispeeded, and that accordingly his Lordship is so requi-of this State. And in like manner hath ordered and commanded those whom it concerns both above, and in this Port to observe the same. And moreover farther witnessing, which accordingly( as he said) he was bound to acquaint us how that the Embargoe at Constantinople, and here was seconded, and his Lordship to avoid farther dangers and inconveniencies to the public, could not refuse his consent thereunto.  
The 10 of May arrived here Mr John Hetherington, a servant to his Lordship, and signior Lorenzo Zuma, Greek, one of his Lordships Druggermen from Constantinople, who the next morning moved our Consul to call a Court for the Nation; where being assembled, the Consul  told the said Hetherington and Lorenzo, that their desires were performed, and therefore required them to deliver what they had in Commission from his Lordship; who produced an Order of the 27 April, directed to the Consul and us, for payment of the said Leviation forthwith, or else to proceed according to his farther Order, Warrant, and Instructions in such behalf, and we to bee answerable to such loss, damage, and inconveniencies as may ensue thereby. To which wee answered, that the Leviation was subscribed unto, and therefore desired the said Hetherington and Lorenzo to stay four or five daies, until his Lordship should return answer to our Letter of the 24 of April: the said Lorenzo  told us, he would retire and peruse his Lordships Commission, and in two houres return, to have a more full and satisfactory answer from us: which being expired, he declared that his Lordships Commission required forthwith ready Money or Goods;( being his Instruction, from which he could not vary.) Whereupon Mr John Lancelot first answered( as he was a Merchant) he could not deposit his Cloth, for his Credits sake, but would give his Bills for his and Mr. Dixwell Brents proportionable part of the leviation, payable at Constantinople per Mr Thomas Pigot, at five daies sight into his Lordships Cancellaria; which was refused, unless they would deposit the value in Cloth, and ● part more towards charges, in the possession of him the said Lorenzo; which they said again, for their Credits sake( as they were Merchants) could not consent unto; so referred themselves unto the said Lorenzo's farther proceedings, if these proffers would not bee accepted of, being not possible for them at present to procure Moneys at Interest, or otherwise.  
The like conditions wee all in general proffered for our proportionable parts, but were refused by the said Hetherington and Lorenzo; whereupon the consul  told them, they had all our assents for payment of the leviation; and if that, with such reasons and proffers as wee propounded, might not bee satisfactory, the consul and wee in general referred ourselves to the said Lorenzoes farther proceedings.  
After this, the said Hetherington and Lorenzo presently re-repaired to the Caddies, accompanied with a prime Chiouz of the viziers, and declared their farther Commissions; after publication whereof, the Caddie sent for the consul, and all our Nation, where the Capitulations were first taken away by Warrant, and the consul in a most barbarous manner was laid hold on, with Dixwell Brent, daniel Edwards, John Pixley, Samuel Barnardiston, George Hanger, and James Moye●, and committed Prisoners into the custody of the said Chiouz and Officers, and transported to a house( taken by them on purpose) where they were violently, and in a formidable manner thrust into a dark Chamber, and at length were forced to present Dollars 300, to have a window set open to give them light and air; the consul telling the said Hetherington and Lorenzo before he was surprised, in the presence of the Caddies, that neither he, or the Nation, had any ways transgressed the Grand Signors or his Lordships Commands, and that he did not fear what they could do unto him, no not so much as to die, in performance of his faith and trust to the Levant Company, whom he had truly served, as likewise for his love and affection he bore to the Nation here under his charge, whom he would never betray, hoping shortly to see his own country again. And in two hours after, the said Hetherington, Lorenzo, and Chiouz, Caddie, and Neipe, sealed up all our Counting-houses, Magazines, and some Chambers; and in two dayes after transported the Prisoners overland, up to Constantinople, where they were delivered to his Lordships power and safe custody; wee in the mean time being left like so many Sheep without a Shepherd, and ignorant where to seek protection.  
The next day after departure of these Prisoners, the said Hetherington and Lorenzo sealed up our Cloth in our own Warehouses, for what concerned our proportionable parts of the Leviation, at the rate of Dollars 45 per Cloth, and l⅓ part more towards Charges.  
The 18 day of M●y. at the instance of the said Hetherinton and Lorenzo, the remainder of us left here behind met together, where the said Hetherington  told us wee had not brought in our bills of Exchange for Constantinople, for the parts of our Leviation, and l⅓ part more; unto which wee answered, wee had complied with his Lordships Commands, in all willing and obedient manner, according to our present possibilities, until wee should bee able to satisfy the same with our ready moneys here, or by our Bills payable in Constantinople at 5 dayes sight, wherein wee promised to use our utmost endeavours, hoping to redeem our Cloth again, which wee had deposited, and they sealed up, for our proportionable parts of the Leviation.  
In few dayes after arrived here one of the principalest Chiouzes of the Grand signior with new commands sent down by his Lordship, by virtue whereof the said Hetherington and Lorenzo seized upon the Persons of John Ball, Henry Davey, Phillip farewell, nathaniel Barnardiston, and John Ingoldsby, who were committed prisoners to the said Chiouz, who used them with some humanity, and sent up the next day to Constantinople, to be delivered unto his Lordships power; after whose departure( all Law being set aside) the said Hetherington and Lorenzo by this command came down, opened all our Warehouses, and by violence carried all our Goods away into several Canes of the Turks, as well what they had sealed up, for the Leviation, as all other Goods of what nature soever they could find, unless it were such as was sealed up, and belonged to Turks, and other of the Grand Signors Subjects, and left many of us so bare, that wee had not wherewithal to afford us a piece of Bread, to ke●p life and soul together, onely bare promises. The said Chiouz remaining behind, put us daily into great fears that wee should all bee sent up, or clapped up here in Prison, which caused many of us to repair on board the ship for succour, here being in harbour the Ships Rainbow, Jonas, Hopewell, and Triangle.  
In all which time of this distraction and sufferings our miseries have been much condoled by the chief Turks and inhabitants of this place, who seem to sympathize with us in our sad conditions; and had not the Commands been so powerful, the whole Town would have risen up in our defence and protection, who have privately advised of these abuses, which as they themselves confess, are like to ruin, not only this scale, but that of Aleppo and Constantinople also, to the dishonour of the Grand signior, and ruin of many of his Subjects, and of a profitable and acceptable friend( our Nation) to become a potent enemy against them.  
The 28 of June came letters from Constantinople, advising the viziers Order for rescuing both Factories from his Lordships imprisonment, and particular advice to some of us here left, for apprehending the Persons of the said Hetherington and Lorenzo, and to keep them in safe Custodies on board our Ships, fearing( wee having no order as yet to receive our Estates out of their possessions) they might convey our said Estates away, or sell them for half their worth, and so make their private escapes out of Town, expecting daily a Chiouz to carry up their Persons to Constantinople, and to free our Goods, hoping all will go well again for us. Hereupon the very same day, the said Hetherington and Lorenzo,( without any nois or rumour) were by the mariners conveyed on board several Ships from the said Hetherintons lodging; viz. Hetherington on broad the Triangle, William Hodges Commander; and Lorenzo on board the Hopewell, Nicholas Terrick Commander; where now they remain, to the contentment of the inhabitants here, who daily expect their sending up to the Port, there to answer to such crimes and insolences as shall bee objected and proved against them.  
Thus wee have presumed plainly and distinctly( accordingly as wee conceive it becomes us) though briefly, to present unto your Worships perusal, the whole process of his Lordships proceedings against us here in Smyrna( since our last) according to our experience of the passages; by which your Worships may easily conjecture his Lordships farther intentions. And for what hath occurred at Constantinople, your Worships will receive by this conveyance, advice to both which wee pray you to bee referred; which being taken into your deliberate considerations, may afford such future means of protection, and encouragement to enter into a way of settling this turkey Trade in such a posture, that wee hope these loss●● may bee repaired with advantage.  
And so wee numbly take our leaves, having given your Worships testimony of our concordance, in the discharge of our obligations and duties, and in conformity wee subscribe, evermore resting,  
Smyrna this 4 day of July, anno 1646. Your Worships humble and obliged Servants, 

Robert Keble  
Thomas Lancelot  
John wild junior  
laurence Chambers  
Will. Oxwieck  
Arnold White  
Daniel Bassano  
William Whetcombe  
Robert daws  
samuel Browning.     
FINIS.   

Votes in Parliament for recalling of Sir Sackvile Crow. Die Veneris 18. Septemb. 1646.  
UPon Mr Alderman Peningtons Report from the Committee appointed to take into consideration the Petition of the Merchants trading the Levant Seas, complaining of the hard conditions and grievous oppressions put upon them by Sir Sackvile Crow their Ambassador, and desiring Redress of the same, It is further resolved, &c.  

That this House doth agree and order to grant to the said Company a Letter to the Grand signior for revocation of the said Sir Sackvile Crow, and to desire the Lords Concurrence to the same end. It is further resolved, &c. That this House doth agree and order to grant unto the said Company a Letter to the Grand Vizier of the Port, or such Person or Persons as shall bee necessary, and desired by the said Company for the same purpose. It is further resolved, &c. That this House doth agree and grant unto the said Company, That they shall have a Commission under the great Seal of England directed to such Person or Persons as the said Company shall nominate and think fit; with such Powers, Instructions, and other Instruments as shall bee necessary for the transacting of the affairs of the said Company; and that the Lords Concurrence bee desired.  
Hen. Elsing, clear. Parl. Dom. come.   

An Ordinance of Parliament enabling Sir Thomas Bendish Baronet to go Ambassador to Constantinople.  
Die Veneris, 29. Jan. 1646.  
BEE it Ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, And it is hereby Ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That upon the desire of the Company of Merchants trading the Levant Seas, a Commission do pass under the great Seal of England to authorize and enable Sir Thomas Bendish Baronet to bee Ambassador, Consul or Agent for the said Company at Constantinople, to transact and negotiate the affairs of the said Company with the Grand signior and State of the Turkish Empire, according to such Powers, Instructions, Limitations, Conditions, and Articles, as shall bee necessary for the better carrying on of the affairs of the said Company; and as shall bee agreed on, limited and appointed by the said Company. And the Commissioners for the great Seal of England for the time being, are hereby required and authorised to pass the said Commission in manner as aforesaid, under the great Seal accordingly: And for their so doing, this Ordinance, or the Duplicate thereof shall bee their sufficient Warrant.  
John Brown, clear. parliament. Hen. Elsing, clear. Parlamentor. Dom. come.   

An Order of Parliament for Commitment of Sir Sackvile Crow.  
Die Martis, 4. April. 1646.  
Resolved, &c.  
THat Sir Sackvile Crow Knight, and Mr Henry hide Merchant, now on Ship board in the River of Thames, bee forthwith committed Prisoners to the Tower of London, in order to their trial; And that the sergeant at arms attending on this House do receive the persons of the said Sir Sack. Crow & Mr hide from the Captain of the Ship Margaret, or such other Officers in whose Custody they are; and convey them forthwith Prisoners to the Tower accordingly.   

Die Martis, 4. April. 1648.  
IT is this day Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That it bee referred to the Committee of the Navy to consider of, hear, and receive such Complaints as shall bee put in and exhibited against Sir Sackvile Crow and Mr Henry hide by the Levant Company or others; and to hear and examine Witnesses, and to receive proofs; And likewise to hear and examine Sir Sackvile Crow and Mr Henry hide; and to hear and receive such proofs and Witnesses as shall bee produced by them on their behalf: And upon hearing Parties and Witnesses on all sides, to state the matter of Fact, and report their opinions thereupon to the House.  
Hen. Elsing, clear. Parl. Dom. come.   

Certain Turkish Words interpnted.  

AVania. A fictitious pretence of the Turks to gain money.  
Druggerman. An Interpreter.  
Chiouz. A Sarjeant at arms.  
Cady. A Turkish Judge.  
Neipe. The Cadie's Deputy.  
Arze. A Certificate from the Judge.  
Maxars. A Certificate from a Town or City, or it's chief Inhabitants.  
Cane. An Inn, where Travellers and Merchants have accommodation of Chambers and Ware-houses for their Goods.  
Hangee, or Canegee. The Inn keeper, or Master of the Cane.  
Bogus. An Armenian, Customer for the Grand signior at Smyrna.  
Tescary. The Customers discharge, or acknowledgement of satisfaction of the Grand Signor's custom on every Ship.  
Fetfaw. The Musties or chief Councellors Resolution in any point of Law.    
FINIS.   

Errors to bee Corrected.  
FOl. 1. line 6. for Nations, read Nation. line 24. Accomts, read accounts. fo●. 5. l. ult. and, r. an. f. 19. l. 8. astance, r. assistance. line 8. Druggermen. r. Druggerman. f. 30. l. 1. Leviathan, r. Leviation, f. 31. l. 31. they, r. then. f. 32. l. 32. her, r. here, f. 35. l. 31. of the lading, to bee blotted out. f. 36. l. 9. agreed, r. agree. f. 46. l. 2. order. f. 48. l. 28. already, r. already. f. 79. l. 25.