File 3939/1926 Pt 5 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Persia, Seistan, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan' [‎24r] (41/558)

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PART I.
Treaties and Engagements
relating to
Persia.
T’HE first European power to enter into relations with Persia was
1 the Republic of Venice, which sent a successful mission in 1464.
[n 1507 the Portuguese under Albuquerque seized the Island of Ormaz.
Ln 1561 Turkey concluded a treaty with Persia: and in the same year
Sir Anthony Jenkinson visited the court of Shah Tamasp I as the Envoy,
of Queen Elizabeth, but met with a cold reception.
About forty years later an adventurous Englishman, Sir Anthony
Sherley visited'Persia. Shah Abbas the Great appointed him as his
Envoy'to establish an alliance with the Christian monarchs of Europe
for the destruction of the Turks: and gave him a grant permitting all
Christian merchants to trade freely with Persia. Eng is , re
Dutch factories were established at Gamrun, the name of which was
changed by the Shah to Bandar Abbas. In 1622 the Portuguese were
expelled from Ormaz with the help of the English, then at war with
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Abbas for all Christians to trade in t'ersia.
Our absolute commauiidement, Q^rlstia? people ^ndTo their religion;
dominions shall be trom this day open to a ^ • n il n resume to aiue them
and in such sort that none of ^“Sow "oVned w'ilh the prmees that
any euil word. And, because °f the am r i ir ; s tian marchants to rapaire and
professe Christ, I do giue this pattent ‘ jig+urbances or molestations of any
trafique in and through our dominions without ^sturbanc^o^^ qualltie? 0 f
duke, prince, gouernor. or c . apt JJ"®> shall bring shall be so pnuileged that
ours; but that all merchandiee that they shall bri^g^ unto itj ne yther to
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Xeakf in' irat^^rtferfa.tt; t^fsh^any ^ our indices hane power
ouer their persons or goodes for any cause or^act whatsoeuer. belongeth
If by chaunce a marchant shall die, none shall power to take
unto him but if the marchant haue a companion^he ^haU h^^ his
possession of those goodes. But if (bj- a y reau i r ed by him in his sickness,
seruants, the gouernor or whomsoeuershani^ required which ghall conie
shall be answerable for all such goodes unt « , nevther companion nor
to require them. But if he die ^^^^t woulde^aue done, then the
seruant, nor time to recommende to any what he viouiue « s . .
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