knowledge, and meere motion haue giuen and granted,
and by those presents for vs, our heires and successors,
doe giue and grant vnto the saide Earles of Warwike
and Leicester, Thomas Starkie, Ierard Gore the elder,
Arthur Atie gentleman, Alexander Auenon, Richard Staper,
William Iennings, Arthur Dawbenie, William Sherrington,
Thomas Bramlie, Anthonie Gerrard, Robert Howe, Henry
Colthirst, Edward Holmden, Iohn Swinnerton, Robert
Walkaden, Simon Lawrence, Nicholas Stile, Oliuer Stile,
William Bond, Henry Farrington, Iohn Tedcastle, Walter
Williams, William Brune, Iohn Suzan, Iohn Newton, Thomas
Owen, Roger Afild, Robert Washborne, Rainold Guie,
Thomas Hitchcocke, George Lidiate, Iohn Cartwright,
Henry Payton, Iohn Baldroe, Robert Bowyer, Anthony
Dassell, Augustine Lane, Robert Lion, and Thomas Dod,
that they and euery of them by themselues or by their
factors or seruants, and none others, shall and may,
for, and during the space of 12. yeeres, haue and enioy
the whole freedome and libertie in the saide trafique
or trade, vnto or from the said countrey of Barbary,
or to or from any part thereof, for the buying and
selling of all maner of wares and marchandizes whatsoeuer,
that now or accustomably heretofore haue bene brought
or transported, from, or to the said country of Barbary,
or from or to any of the cities, townes, places, ports,
roades, hauens, harbors, or creeks of the said country
of Barbary, any law, statute, graunt, matter, customes
or priuileges, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
And for the better establishing, ordering and gouerning
of the said Erles of Warwike and Leicester, Thomas
Starkie, &c. abouesaid, their factors, seruants and
assignes in the trade aforesaid, we for vs, our heires
and successors, doe by these presents giue and graunt
full licence to the saide Thomas Starke, Ierard Gore
the elder, and the rest aforesaide, and euery of them
from time to time, during the said terme of twelue
yeeres, at their pleasures to assemble and meete together
in any place or places conuenient within our citie
of London, or elsewhere, to consult of, and for the
said trade, and with the consent of the said Erie
of Leicester, to make and establish good and necessary
orders and ordinances for and touching the same, and
al such orders and ordinances so made, to put in vse
and execute, and them or any of them with the consent
of the said Erle of Leicester, to alter, change and
make voyde, and if need be, to make new, at any time
during the saide terme, they or the most part of them
then liuing and trading, shall finde conuenient.
Prouided alwayes, that the ordinances or any of them
bee not contrary or repugnant to the lawes, statutes
or customes of this our Realme of England. And
to the intent that they onely to whom the said libertie
of trafique is graunted by these our Letters patents,
and none other our Subiects whatsoeuer, without their
special consent and licence before had, should during
the said terme haue trade or trafique for any maner