Obtaining a grant to Jews
"Aside from such fears the complaint painted a halcyon picture of harmonious and profitable Anglo- Moroccan trade ‘until the first shippers of unlawful commodities spoiled the same’. This was an illusion, but a powerful one nonetheless: these interlopers were described as inveigling their way into the Moroccan ruler’s affections, obtaining from him a ‘grant to the Jews, renters of the sugar houses, to give unto them other men’s sugars long before paid for, by which hard dealing the Jews bankrupted [them], and thereby her majesty’s subjects lost very near £40,000, the circumstances whereof would be tedious to trouble your honour’." (Jerry Brotton, This Orient Isle- Elizabethan England and the Islamic World)
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The new traders were Jews, who gained the affection of the ruler of Morocco (ie the Sultan). They rented the sugar houses (I assume this means the sugar warehouses ) and the Sultan gave (granted) them special financial rights that other non-Jewish sugar traders did not have. This enabled the Jews to force all the other sugar-traders into bankruptcy.
- The new traders were Jews, who gained the affection of the ruler of Morocco (ie the Sultan).
- They rented the sugar houses (I assume this means the sugar warehouses ) and the Sultan gave (granted) them special financial rights that other non-Jewish sugar traders did not have.
- This enabled the Jews to force all the other sugar-traders into bankruptcy.
- For more details ,look here.
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The new traders were Jews, who gained the affection of the ruler of Morocco (ie the Sultan). They rented the sugar houses (I assume this means the sugar warehouses ) and the Sultan gave (granted) them special financial rights that other non-Jewish sugar traders did not have. This enabled the Jews to force all the other sugar-traders into bankruptcy.
For more details ,look here.
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