Out of England there should be suffered
"With their future in jeopardy, the merchants justified their complaints by turning to religion. Having shown few qualms hitherto about trading with Muslims, they now told Walsingham that the ‘undirect and hard dealing’ of unscrupulous English merchants in ‘forbidden commodities’ into ‘the heathen country of Barbary’ was causing ‘great clamours to be spread in other countries, that out of England there should be suffered to go munitions and other furniture to the aid of the infidels, which causeth our most true and pure religion to be brought into question’." (Jerry Brotton, This Orient Isle- Elizabethan England and the Islamic World)
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The subject of the great clamours was that England was supplying war materiel to non-Moslems in Moslem areas, and this brought Christianity into disfavor there. The "that … infidels" clause is in apposition to "clamours".
- The subject of the great clamours was that England was supplying war materiel to non-Moslems in Moslem areas, and this brought Christianity into disfavor there.
- The "that … infidels" clause is in apposition to "clamours".
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The subject of the great clamours was that England was supplying war materiel to non-Moslems in Moslem areas, and this brought Christianity into disfavor there. The "that … infidels" clause is in apposition to "clamours".
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