Be restored to the Englishmen
"Murad at the end of May 1580 ... signed a charter of privileges – ‘Capitulations’ – granting the English full commercial rights in Ottoman dominions... It listed in minute detail the privileges granted to the English: ... if ‘any pirates or other free governors of ships trading the sea shall take any Englishman, and shall make sale of him . . . if the party shall be found to be English and shall receive the holy religion [Islam], then let him freely be discharged, but if he will still remain a Christian, let him then be restored to the Englishmen, and the buyers shall demand their money again of them who sold the man." (Jerry Brotton, This Orient Isle- Elizabethan England and the Islamic World)
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Your ellipses give me pause. alibey1917 What does the emphasized phrase mean? The Englishman was taken in the first place from the "Englishmen".
- Your ellipses give me pause.
- alibey1917 What does the emphasized phrase mean?
- The Englishman was taken in the first place from the "Englishmen".
- He was subsequently sold for money to a third party.
- When that third party discovers that he is an Englishman, and this Englishman prefers to go home still a Christian, without converting to Islam, they have to give him back the the English and go to the ones from whom they bought the Englishman to get their money back.
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Your ellipses give me pause.
alibey1917What does the emphasized phrase mean?
The Englishman was taken in the first place from the "Englishmen". He was subsequently sold for money to a third party. When that third party discovers that he is an Englishman, and this Englishman prefers to go home still a Christian, without converting to Islam, they have t
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