A speech made by the Right Honourable George Earl of Berkeley to the Levant company at their annual election, February ix, MDCLXXX His Lordship being governour of that most loyal society. Berkeley, George Berkeley, Earl of, 1628-1698. 1681 Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2003-11 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A27460 Wing B1967 ESTC R7259 13229486 ocm 13229486 98597 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A27460) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 98597) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 446:7) A speech made by the Right Honourable George Earl of Berkeley to the Levant company at their annual election, February ix, MDCLXXX His Lordship being governour of that most loyal society. Berkeley, George Berkeley, Earl of, 1628-1698. 8 p. Printed for R. Royston ..., London : 1681. On verso of leaf preceding t.p.: a letter to the printer, dated: March 5, 1680. Signed: B. C. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Trading companies -- England -- Early works to 1800. 2003-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-05 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-08 Judith Siefring Sampled and proofread 2003-08 Judith Siefring Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Mr. Royston , THIS inclosed Speech coming by accident to my hands , I take the Innocent freedom of presenting you with it , in order to its Publication ; that I may upon this occasion , at once express my forwardness to serve you , and my just Respects unto that very Honourable Peer the Author of it , and those Worthy Merchants to whom it was spoken . SIR , I am Yours B. C. March 5. 1680. A SPEECH Made by the Right Honourable GEORGE EARL of BERKELEY , TO THE LEVANT COMPANY AT THEIR ANNUAL ELECTION , February ix . MDCLXXX . His Lordship being Governour of that most Loyal Society . LONDON , Printed for R. Royston , Bookseller to the Kings most Sacred Majesty , MDCLXXXI . A SPEECH Made by the RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE EARL of BERKELEY , TO THE LEVANT Company at their Annual Election , February ix . 1680. GENTLEMEN , THis being the day of your Annual Election , I am come to wait on you to resign up my place of Governour into your hands : I am very sensible of your great Kindness to me , and good opinion of me , in chusing me your Governour for Eight Years past , for which I return you my hearty thanks , and should be glad in return of all your favours , it were in my power to do good to every individual person of this Worthy Society . I have served you with all Faithfulness and Integrity , and shall never be wearied nor discouraged from serving you so long as I live , whilst I believe my self capable , and you are pleased to think me so . I very much rejoyce my interposition with his Gracious Majesty , hath been so prevalent and successful in your Concerns , that you have been left freer in the choice of your Embassador , than , I believe , you ever were before . By this means you have proceeded to the Election of a * Person of Honour and Integrity , a Nobleman , so well qualified in all respects to serve you , that we have reason to hope we shall be safe under his Lordships wise Conduct of our Affairs , and that by Gods blessing he will be Instrumental to deliver us from our just fears , and from the unjust pretensions and demands of so Insolent and Oppressive a Vizier . Gentlemen , I pray God to bless you in all your concerns at home and abroad , by Sea and by Land , and so unite our hearts in these too much divided times amongst Christians , that there may be no contest between us but this , How we should best express our selves good Protestant Subjects , good Englishmen , Honourable and fair dealing Traders , delighting to do our Duties in our Generation , by serving God , our King , ( whom God in Mercy long , long preserve to Reign over us ) and our Country . I have no more to say , but leave you to your free choice . His Lordship , my Lord of Berkeley , was the same day , being the 9th of February , again chosen Governour of the Turkey Company for the Year ensuing . His Excellency the Lord Chandois , His Majesties Extraordinary Embassador for Constantinople , departed from London , Monday , February xxi . 1680. in order to his Voyage . THE END . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A27460-e220 * The Right Honourable Iames Lord Chandois .