The First Day Of Our Arrival At Ormus, This Stropene Accused Us
Of Being Spies For Don Antonio, Besides Diverse Other Lies; Yet If We
Had Been Of Any Other Country Than England, We Might Freely Have Traded
With Them.
Although we be Englishmen, I know no reason why we may not as
well trade from place to place
As the natives of other countries; for
all nations may and do come freely to Ormus, as Frenchmen, Flemings,
Germans, Hungarians, Italians, Greeks, Armenians, Nazarenes, Turks,
Moors, Jews, and Gentiles, Persians, and Muscovites. In short, there is
no nation they seek to trouble, but only ours; wherefore it were
contrary to all justice and reason that they should suffer all nations
to trade with them, and forbid us. Now indeed I have as great liberty as
those of any other nation, except it be to leave the country, which as
yet I desire not. But hereafter, and I think ere long, if I shall be
desirous to go from hence, that they will not refuse me licence. Before
we were suffered to come out of prison, I was forced to put in sureties
for 2000 pardaos, not to depart from hence without licence of the
viceroy; and except this, we have now as much liberty as any one, for I
have got back our goods, and have taken a house in the chiefest street
called the _Rue drette_, where we sell our goods.
There were two causes which moved the captain of Ormus to imprison us,
and afterwards to send us to Goa.
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