RAINOLDS AND DASSEL ad 



1591 

 enquire of some Negros and Portugals if he might not 

 stay him and his goods in the land, and that he did 

 nothing but by commission from his king by his letters 

 which he received from London in Dartmouth after we 

 were departed from London, for that we presumed to 

 come to Guinea to traffike without a servant of his : and 

 further, that he had power or procuration from Francisco 

 de Costa the Portugall that stayed behinde in England 

 to detaine the goods of Anthony Dassel in Guinea. 



By consent of M. Francis Tucker, John Browbeare, 

 and the rest of the factours of Richard Kelley, with whom 

 this Pedro Gonsalves came, for avoiding further mischiefe 

 that might be practised, we agreed that the sayd Pedro 

 Gonsalves should stay aboord our shippe, and not goe 

 any more on land untill they departed. So the ninth of 

 January he was delivered aboord to goe for England in 

 the same ship wherein he came : who was all the time 

 of his abode in our shippe both courteously and friendly 

 used at my hands, much against the mariners willes, who 

 could not abide such a wicked creature and caitive, that is 

 nourished and relieved in our countrey, and yet by 

 villanous meanes sought the destruction of us all. 



The Spaniards and Portugals though they be dissem- 

 blers and not to be trusted, when they perceived how 

 king Amar Melicks Negros befriended and favored us, 

 and that it would be prejudiciall to their trade for divers 

 respects, if we should any way be injuried, renounced the 

 sayd practises, detesting the author, and protested to 

 defend us in such cases with all faithfulnesse : desiring we 

 would, as the king of Negros had commanded us, never 

 bring Portugal with us more: using this phrase in 

 disdaine of such as came out of England, let your 

 Portugals be barres of yron : for in trueth in regard of 

 the rich trade maintained by Frenchmen and by us of 

 late, they esteeme more of one barre of yron then of 

 twenty Portugals which we should bring out of England : 

 who at their comming thither very subtilly disadvantage 

 us, and doe great hurt to every party. 



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