[250] Vandal’s Nointel, p. 227.
[251] Owing to a gap in the Ambassador’s correspondence and to the absence from the scene of our candid Treasurer, much of what follows rests on the authority of North’s second-hand reports (see Life of Dudley North, pp. 90-92) and of a Narrative which the Levant Company submitted to the King (Register, S.P. Levant Company, 145), both sources in sad need of critical scrutiny.
[252] A parallel case, between an Englishman and a Greek of Smyrna, had just elicited such a protest. See Finch to Coventry, March 1-11, 1679-80.
[253] Finch to Coventry, Aug. 4-14, Aug. 29/Sept. 8, 1676.
[254] Finch to Sir Leoline Jenkins, Aug. 21-31, 1680, S.P. Turkey, 19.
[255] Ibid.
[256] Ibid. Cp. Life of Dudley North, p. 100.
[257] Finch to Jenkins, loc. cit.; the Same to Sunderland, Nov. 6-16, 1680, S.P. Turkey, 19.
[258] Finch to Jenkins, Aug. 21-31; the Same to Sunderland, Nov. 6-16.