deputies appointed the treasurer to furnish the required funds. The ordinary commerce of this company employed from 20 to 25 vessels, of between 25 and 30 pieces of cannon. The merchandises exported there were limited in quality and range, suggesting an imbalance of trade; they included traditional cloths, especially shortcloth and kerseys, tin, pewter, lead, pepper, re-exported cochineal, black rabbit skins and a great deal of American silver, which the English took up at Cadiz. The more valuable returns were in raw silk, cotton wool and yarn, currants and "Damascus raisins", nutmeg, pepper, indigo, galls, camlets, wool and cotton cloth, the soft leathers called maroquins, soda ash for making glass and soap, and several gums and medicinal drugs. Velvet, carpets, and silk were bought by the traders. The commerce of the company to Smyrna, Constantinople, and İskenderun, was much less considerable than that of the East India Company; but was, more advantageous to England, because it took off much more of the English products than the other, which was chiefly carried on in money. The places reserved for the commerce of this company included all the states of Venice, in the Gulf of Venice; the state of Ragusa; all the states of the "Grand Signior" (the Ottoman Sultan), and the ports of the Levant and Mediterranean Basin; excepting Cartagena, Alicante, Barcelona, Valencia, Marseilles, Toulon, Genoa, Livorno (Leghorn), Civitavecchia, Palermo, Messina, Malta, Majorca, Menorca, and Corsica; and other places on the coasts of France, Spain, and Italy. Levantine shipping Ships owned by the Levant Company from 1581 to 1640: Alathia Alcede Alice and Thomas Alice Thomas Aleppo Merchant Angel Anne Frane Ascension Bark Burre Barque Reynolds Centurion Charity Cherubim Christ Clement Cock Concord Consent Cosklett Darling Delight Desire Diamond Dragon Eagle Edward Bonaventure Elizabeth and Dorcas Elizabeth Cocken Elizabeth Stoaks Elnathan Emanuel Experience Freeman George Bonaventure Gift of God Golden Noble Grayhound Great Phoenix Great Suzanne Greenfield Guest Gyllyon Harry Harry Bonaventure Hector Hercules Husband Industry The Jane Jesus Jewel Job John John Francis Jollian Jonas Lanavit Lewis Little George London Margaret Margaret Bonaventure Marget and John Marigold Mary Mary Anne Mary Coust Mary Martin Mary Rose Mayflower Merchant Bonaventure Mignon Paragon Peregrine Phoenix Primrose Prosperous Providence Rainbow Rebecca Recovery Red Lion Report Resolution Roebuck Royal Defence Royal Exchange Royal Merchant Saker Salamander Salutation Samaritan Sampson Samuel Saphire Scipio Society Solomon Suzanne Suzanne Parnell Swallow Teagre Thomas and William Thomas Bonaventure